Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] at [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | The type of batteries most favoured at present are either 1.5 volt AA pen-lights or the 9 volt PP3s . |
2 | Mr. Steed was duly registered at H.M. |
3 | She says that it 's good to have somewhere to swim at lunchtimes . |
4 | Generally , all the clues for problem solving are there , if a little disguised at times , but it 's unlikely you will get too stuck on the easy setting . |
5 | Hearing people have significantly better recall for items which they vocally repeat at presentation , while deaf people find it more difficult to recall items when they have to overtly repeat the sign when it is presented . |
6 | Unfortunately , it is not always these States which exert the most influence at ICAO divisional meetings where the policies are worked out by the national delegates that attend . |
7 | For those who would rather stay at home |
8 | Many of the world 's travellers would rather stay at home . |
9 | The steady rise in quality of the materials produced and developed at Dudley Teachers ' Centre , for instance , is an excellent example ; the centre has an enthusiastic warden and much of the work has developed under the stimulus of an outstanding educational adviser , but the content of the materials has been developed by local teachers with admirable results ( mostly limited at present to print-form ) . |
10 | I got wet thro ’ and was kindly and hospitably treated at Mrs. Fletcher 's sisters … ’ |
11 | The industry received a subsidy , optimistically calculated at £10 million , but in fact costing £23 million , to keep wages and profits at their existing level . |
12 | Obviously there are certain key factors to any sort of reasonable living space : walls and ceiling will have to be decorated along with all the woodwork ; windows and floors have to be treated in some way ; there must be light both to see by and to enhance the space ; there should be something to sit on and probably to eat from and almost certainly somewhere to work at times . |
13 | For those in search of the true state of this extraordinary art , there is no better guide than the massive , three-volume Handbook , written by the cream of the US artificial intelligentsia and skilfully edited at Ed Feigenbaum 's AI citadel at Stanford University . |
14 | The necessary contact could partly be maintained by means of meetings and round-table discussions of the kind so successfully organised at Uig for the Arkleton Trust , but it would be desirable to give it some more concrete , institutional form as well . |
15 | They were in the ecclesiastical tradition which would have prevailed in the north if Wilfrid had not been forcibly installed at York by Theodore in place of Chad . |
16 | In gratitude for what I thought God had given me , a second chance , I ignored Leon 's boredom as I talked him through the files — just as I was ignoring Muriel 's messages to call her — and I ignored his rarely appearing at meetings with agricultural reps and men from the Milk Marketing Board ; ignored his non-involvement with any of the humdrum things essential to the running of a place like Sleet . |
17 | Such papers are widely dispersed at present , in specialist clinical , radiological , pathological , and epidemiological journals . |
18 | They 've come so far , they were giving daily displays at Crufts recently : they spend 16 weeks learning to recognise an alarm clock . |
19 | M27 is the most dwarfing stock ; trees reach only 5–6ft at maturity . |
20 | This was an activity not much favoured at Verdun , as it invariably attracted a tornado of enemy fire . |
21 | A local dental surgeon , Mr. Williams , was kind enough to attend at Dr. Prior 's request and he administered the gas gratuitously . |
22 | I can only laugh at Rachel now . |
23 | It is a system which not merely connived at nepotism , it depended upon it . |
24 | Plover Hide is one of thirteen hides , all situated at sites regarded as particularly rewarding from a bird watcher 's point-of-view . |
25 | ‘ I think you 'd better stay at home , ’ Otley cautioned . |
26 | The former UK Prime Minister Edward Heath , conducting a humanitarian mission for which he was much criticized at home on the grounds of the possible propaganda opportunities which it might afford to the Iraqi leadership , secured the release of some 40 British nationals who arrived at Gatwick airport early on Oct. 24 ( two children , several women , and some of the men on the list of the elderly and sick which he had presented to Saddam Hussein at lengthy talks on Oct. 21 ) . |
27 | My family think I should only eat at meal times , and only in small quantities , but I need more than that — my stomach rumbles all the time between meals . |
28 | As one said , what Easton has , unlike many areas , is ‘ ordinary civil policing ’ ( FN 16/11/87 , p. 6 ) , so that there is a continuity with policing in Easton before the current troubles began : ‘ I was in Easton years ago when it was the old station , though basically policing at Easton has n't changed from when I was here years ago . |
29 | But Mr Soley defended the policy in an interview with the Guardian : ‘ The problem is most acute in rural areas , such as the South-west , where there is a growing problem of ghost villages where 70 per cent of the houses are only occupied at weekends or during the summer , ’ he said . |
30 | He poured water on his handkerchief , then gently dabbed at Clare 's chin . |