Example sentences of "[to-vb] [prep] [noun] at " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was talking to this other lad across the road — we were due to go off duty at two and we were just hanging about before making our way down to the station — there was no relief for us on that shift . |
| 2 | Richard took hostages from them and then sent them and other members of their league to England to sue for mercy at his father 's feet . |
| 3 | As she prepares to go for gold at the World Cross Country Championships in the Spanish seaside town of Amorebieta , the South African could not help sadly recalling the drama surrounding the 1988 event which left her on the verge of a nervous breakdown . |
| 4 | I do n't have to go for examinations at all now , I come under , what 's it , you know my bloody pension it marvels me , I 've been under every ruddy regimental paymaster and , in the , and Scotland I think , I , I at present I 'm with one in Scotland , but eh , mucking about with |
| 5 | FORMER Sheffield Wednesday striker Steve Whitton had the last word — snatching an equaliser with only seconds to go for Ipswich at Bramall Lane . |
| 6 | The Council of Licensed Conveyancers and the Institute are likely to go for approval at an early date ; it is unlikely , however , that any approvals will be given before the second half of 1993 . |
| 7 | Edward Kirk was to remain as Headmaster at Leeds until his death , and was to see his school grow from a small class of 6 pupils on a half-day basis into a fully-fledged school taking in boarders and day scholars with a roll of over 100 children , with a reputation second to none . |
| 8 | NEWCASTLE United chairman Sir John Hall last night persuaded Kevin Keegan to remain as manager at St James 's Park until the end of the season . |
| 9 | The wildlife departments of the governments concerned are to appeal for funds at the March meeting of the UN Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species ( CITES ) . |
| 10 | They felt stigmatized , as skilled men , by taking unskilled work , and it left them no time to search for work at their trade . |
| 11 | 4 subjects failed to attend for assessment at 4 weeks although they remained in the study . |
| 12 | The Director of the Serious Fraud Office formed the opinion that the matter was appropriate for investigation by procedures under the Criminal Justice Act 1987and on 24 June served a notice on the applicant requiring him to attend for interview at her offices and answer questions or otherwise furnish information . |
| 13 | You live in Glasgow and you have just received a letter from a company requesting you to attend for interview at the Station Hotel , Inverness on Tuesday morning at 9.30 am . |
| 14 | We do n't need to go through Cherbourg at all . |
| 15 | She understood that she could only leave the flat to shop for food at the Indian-owned store at the end of the street . |
| 16 | See they used to get the , they used t what they call they used to report for work at say quarter past seven in the morning and then they be at work at half past seven , but now of course they do n't now , they , I think they start about eight o'clock now . |
| 17 | We only call dolphins when we need help in a rough sea , or we are in difficulty or if there is something we would like to know about relatives at a distance over the ocean . |
| 18 | So why should enthusiasts living in Leicester choose to work as volunteers at Shackerstone rather than Loughborough — or vice versa . |
| 19 | In 1812 he accepted an invitation to stand for Liverpool at the election with his friend Henry Brougham ( later Baron Brougham and Vaux , q.v . ) . |
| 20 | The train was due to pass through Pinmore at 5am . |
| 21 | The level of this profile , for a woman , is set to pass through £6000 at age 24 . |
| 22 | A decade or three back , when most of us could visit most countries without a visa , there was little expectation that this would prove a high water mark and that restrictions would steadily increase , but we may not be able to assume that the freedom to dial direct to distant countries will continue to increase : Egypt has cut direct-dial telephone links with Pakistan , Afghanistan , Iraq , Sudan and Iran to make it harder for Moslem militant leaders in exile to communicate with groups at home and organise terrorist attacks , the Al-Akhbar newspaper reports ; it is still possible to call via an operator . |
| 23 | And the government 's so called mum 's army proposals for teaching youngsters are expected to come under fire at a meeting in Nottingham later today . |
| 24 | The overall guiding role of the party was therefore likely to meet with resistance at some stage and there are signs that this indeed happened increasingly in the post-Stalinist period . |
| 25 | While Diana has built up an active social life within a two-mile radius of Kensington Palace , the Prince rarely ventures into town and prefers to dine with friends at Highgrove . |
| 26 | Since all the females in a group tend to come into oestrus at around the same time , the male goat will have a busy two or three days . |
| 27 | The directive , which had hitherto been opposed by West Germany , Greece and Spain , was due to come into effect at the end of 1994 ; the Commission aimed to reach agreement on a single passport for insurance companies during 1990 . |
| 28 | Lord Carrington flew to Yugoslavia on Sept. 16 for talks with Milosevic , Tudjman and Kadijevic at Igalo ( Montenegro ) and , warning that Yugoslavia was only days away from " irretrievable civil war " , he succeeded in negotiating another ceasefire on Sept. 17 , to come into effect at noon on the following day . |
| 29 | ‘ There is no doubt in my mind , ’ she says , ‘ that we have all lived many lives before and that we have an individual life-force which never dies but chooses to come into incarnation at various times . |
| 30 | But there 's an Equal Pay Act that 's supposed to come into force at the end of 1975 — that will give women equal pay and a bit more power . |