Example sentences of "[to-vb] at [det] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I knew both of them very well from my Lincoln days and had agreed to lecture at this school . |
| 2 | El conde hovered over his kingdom like an eagle , sharp-eyed and cold , ready to swoop at any moment . |
| 3 | A group of like-minded individuals used to meet at each other 's house on a Monday nearest the full moon . |
| 4 | That old bugger Grunte had not included him in the invitation to dine at some poncy joint called La Noblesse , the smartest part of the Hospitality Inn . |
| 5 | The target word that the user intended to write at each position is also known and stored in a file . |
| 6 | I thought it particularly nice of them to write at such length , as I had mistakenly called Roy Griffiths Mister ! |
| 7 | What it is important to establish at this juncture is Nizan 's systematic refusal to countenance any form of public criticism of the internal running of the Soviet state between 1935 and 1939 . |
| 8 | I mean the idea of course is to try at some stage and run a trainer trainer 's course , so that we expand the number of people who can who can do the training . |
| 9 | Choose three or four and pick the ones that most need correcting , that is , the words the pupil ought to be able to spell at this stage ( see What goes wrong ? , page 6 ) . |
| 10 | It is only necessary to indicate at each stage which proven solution will be used in the next stage . |
| 11 | A spokesman for Astra said he did not wish to comment at this stage . |
| 12 | Ian Ross , finance director , said : ‘ It is difficult to comment at this stage , because management have an interest . |
| 13 | This was a little unfortunate , the topic being one close to his lordship 's heart and one he was inclined to explicate at some length . |
| 14 | For all her encouragement to them to come at any time to her house , Rose herself was wary of calling at Great Meadow . |
| 15 | It is very , very unfortunate to come at this time . ’ |
| 16 | Gwendolen started to scream at this hard-heartedness , but suddenly stopped again as Auguste rose to come to her aid . |
| 17 | It was a ploy of Lord Darlington 's to stand at this shelf studying the spines of the encyclopedias as I came down the staircase , and sometimes , to increase the effect of an accidental meeting , he would actually pull out a volume and pretend to be engrossed as I completed my descent . |
| 18 | … or is it just another of those little habits ( much favoured by men ) that seem to flourish at this time of year . |
| 19 | To work at that speed we ca n't even drink a cup of tea . |
| 20 | Tell me something of the hours you used to work at that time . |
| 21 | Of course , we had to walk to work at that time o' day . |
| 22 | At recent rates about 80 per cent of married women can expect to work at some time in their married lifetime ( Martin and Roberts 1984 ) . |
| 23 | No matter where you finally wind up in the advertising business , you will want to work at some stage in an agency to gain real insight into advertising and acquire first-rate skills ( and , hopefully , reputation ) that puts wheels under your career . |
| 24 | Writing the software was somewhat tedious , but having to work at this level did help the designers to get away from preconceptions about interaction which they might have had if they had been working within the input/output facilities provided by a conventional mini or mainframe operating system ( for example , that it needs a RETURN to terminate user input or that the operating system can properly handle the echoing of characters to the terminal ) . |
| 25 | To work at this sort of depth it is necessary to dig a hole of bigger diameter and in this case you must consider your own safety . |
| 26 | After a period of time you 'll feel that things have improved a bit in that area ( we hope ! ) , so flick through the book again and start trying to work at another area . |
| 27 | Instead , holdings and dealings would be recorded electronically in an account , corresponding to a bank account , with one of a number of ‘ account operators , ’ linked to TAURUS , from whom shareholders would be able to obtain at any time documentary evidence of the state of their accounts . |
| 28 | Among innovations to appear at this juncture were such personal items as cups and tumblers , belt or girdle hooks , sword pommels and scabbard fittings like buckles and chapes , as well as bowmen 's rings . |
| 29 | They went about their business , expecting him to appear at any moment . |
| 30 | They passed , apparently oblivious , intent only on their own business ; but hardly a soul in the village failed to pass at some time during that day , and not one missed a detail of what was there to be seen . |