Example sentences of "[to-vb] [verb] at [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 Later , if the child takes a definite stand as a Christian , there will also be a deeper challenge to struggle to change at heart ; tackling inward dispositions as well as facing the difficult questions of faith .
2 Our players are beginning to dread playing at home .
3 In some of the comments which follow , we can see that students are discussing more than a subject which they happened to choose to study at college : they are discussing issues which are central to their lives .
4 It is difficult to explain to those you love why you want to go on doing the same thing … the easy thing is to avoid looking at reality , to run away from it .
5 For women alone , it is not advisable to go sightseeing at night unless it is with a guided tour of nightspots .
6 He told me that it was necessary for them to start praying at home every day .
7 The patient is not encouraged to practise walking at home until he can walk fairly normally , and without any increased spasticity in his arm .
8 To start looking at press links very quickly , because ah I prospective candidate has always got a lead in , and so many issues have a European dimension .
9 As EAST Anglia awaits next week 's potentially dangerous North Sea tides , timber from the region 's small woodlands is being harvested in the constant fight to keep flooding at bay .
10 Need to start computing at home ?
11 It was decided to generate the samples from referrals to the psychogeriatric service in each borough , partly because it was easier to do that than to draw them from general practitioners ' lists or social services department referrals , but mainly in order to provide the service for people whose illness was likely to be at a relatively advanced stage and who were likely to need extra care if they were to continue to live at home .
12 SMOKING has become the main health concern of companies , with a sharp rise in the number introducing policies to control smoking at work , a conference on the issue was told yesterday .
13 You have to turn left at traffic
14 Did you used to have wait at table as well ?
15 In the Department of Environment in London and in the Department of Energy and the Department of Health they appear to have quit at lunchtime .
16 This can be useful during the occasional compulsory attendance at official Indonesian functions , or when waiting in government offices for filming permits to be granted ; but there have been dinner parties , at which he was the guest of honour , when he was actually thought to have died at table .
17 We have already discussed the question of fuel used in cremations which , at least for the larger cremation cemeteries , argues that the cremation itself may be more likely to have occurred at home than at the cemetery .
18 She ought to have stayed at home , or gone to stay with her boyfriend in Halesowen .
19 There are some types of case which it can not sustain , and some which do not need it in order to remain at home ; but there is a group — those with relatively severe dementia , probably living alone , and unable to receive the care they need from elsewhere ( usually because they do not have able and willing involved relatives ) who appear unlikely to have remained at home had it not been for the involvement of the Home Support Project .
20 Those clients whom we estimated as least likely to have remained at home had it not been for the Home Support Project were , as expected , particularly heavy consumers of community services .
21 Find out how to get promoted at work .
22 We 've been to Penthurst , I think we 're going to have to stay at home .
23 The government is currently considering building facilities for processing liquid radioactive waste and other measures to end dumping at sea by 1995 .
24 We were married at home , and one of the reasons why is because we bought a very old house about three years ago and on the top floor it has a , a large room which used to be the ballroom , and we did a little research and we found that the last wedding that we know of in the house took place in seventeen fifty eight , when apparently it was very common in Scotland to get married at home , it was more uncommon to go to church .
25 The ships then set out to return to base at speed of 10km/h. at 8 p.m. the cutter increased speed to 20 km/h while the launch kept going at 10 km/h .
26 Often their frustration is made worse as they do not wish to admit to stress at work in case it appears on employment or insurance records .
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