Example sentences of "[vb past] at [noun sg] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Berwick crashed at home to Newcastle last Saturday , but staged a quick recovery with a last-heat win at Glasow . |
| 2 | Well I tried at quarter to nine the day that there there is talking about it and er I was n't allowed on the phone . |
| 3 | ‘ From Armidel , ’ writes Johnson , ‘ we came at night to Coriatachan , a house very pleasantly situated between two brooks , with one of the highest hills of the island behind it . ’ |
| 4 | Wednesday 21st we awakened at dawn to a chilly overcast day but spirits were good . |
| 5 | and , and if you wan na come home , there 's supposed to be a bus at half past four , and our lecture finished at quarter to four , so you like , three quarters of an hour to get to the bus , right , and then it did n't turn up . |
| 6 | With those I returned at speed to the boathouse and attacked the lower door , first hammering the toe of the tyre lever into a nonexistent crack between the wooden door frame and the surrounding brickwork at a level just below the keyhole , then bashing the far end of that iron , to put heavy leverage against the door frame , then wrenching out the lever and repeating the whole process above the lock , this time with fury . |
| 7 | Liverpool lost AT HOME to Spurs |
| 8 | They lost at home to Mansfield Town . |
| 9 | Oxfordshire went down to Middlesex and Gloucestershire lost at home to Somerset … |
| 10 | Leicester could have gone up behind Ipswich on Saturday in the second automatic promotion spot in Division Two had they won at Charlton and Middlesbrough lost at home to Bristol Rovers . |
| 11 | The Spireites are in 11th position in the table and their outside hopes of reaching the play-offs were upset when they lost at home to Rochdale on Saturday . |
| 12 | He started at home to QPR at the end of last season and possibly in other games . |
| 13 | Quarter to eight cos they started at quarter to six . |
| 14 | And , for a lesser sum , Richard Davenport Hines ‘ s biography of W H Auden ( bought by Heinemann here ) went at auction to Pantheon . |
| 15 | The brown bakelite electric radio , where , like every other girl in the country , Eve listened at night to Radio Luxembourg , was on her night table . |
| 16 | I listened at length to her story , then I talked for a moment about the unshakeable fact of the resurrection , about the city where God will wipe away every tear . |
| 17 | As part of this study , we listened at length to adolescent schoolchildren discussing political issues . |
| 18 | One PC complained at length to a sergeant that the ‘ ground ’ where they both worked had become much quieter ; he looked back with nostalgia to the old days when the ground was much ‘ harder ’ and ‘ you could literally be strolling past a pub and a bloke would come staggering out with a knife in his back … ’ |
| 19 | Mayer spoke at length to Essex and England skipper Graham Gooch after the flashpoint , and Foster did n't bowl another ball . |
| 20 | Some assets , such as money lent at call to other financial institutions , are highly liquid . |
| 21 | John wrote at length to Hanns about colour , shapes and general effect desirable , and asked him to ‘ do a few rough sketches and send them to me to give to Cecily ; number them so that I can just send you back a telegram saying ‘ Do number three ’ say , unless there is more to be said . ’ |
| 22 | Second-placed Thornaby faltered at home to third-placed Middlesbrough . |