Example sentences of "[to-vb] [adv] at [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If he tries to change him into a Lillie or Hadlee , the boy might lose his greatest asset — to bowl successfully at pace . |
| 2 | Neil gets nod to carry on at Leeds |
| 3 | Looking for a plausible mechanism is slightly easier , but the search has only just begun , and there are few clues to go on at present . |
| 4 | Many forms had days when lessons finished at midday , and study had to go on at home . |
| 5 | ‘ The first time ’ , Hortensia said , ‘ I poured half a tin of Golden Syrup on to the seat of the chair the Trunchbull was going to sit on at prayers . |
| 6 | Ian , 49 , told friends : ‘ It may sound sloppy but the two of us will be able to sit down at home and have a jolly good cuddle listening to this . ’ |
| 7 | At two o'clock I should like to sit down at table . |
| 8 | The best hope of course is that the rates which the government has chosen to go in at will be sustainable , that the government will be able to combine cuts with interest rates , cuts in interest rates , with the needs of the economy and the constraints of the European Monetary System , so that it actually gets a downward path of interest rates at the rate which the economy needs , without provoking a sterling crisis which would push sterling to the bottom of its permitted rates , and produce a crisis of erm of confidence needing higher interest rates . |
| 9 | ‘ He is not one of those who is at his desk at dawn and leaves late clutching another three files to work on at home , ’ one said . |
| 10 | They need no special wiring and may be thermostatically controlled to come on at 3°C . |
| 11 | It is hard to find much at Comdex and the companion Windows World show that is not NT-related this year , and Tivoli Systems Inc winged in from Austin , Texas to announce that it will develop a version of its product for NT , and brought along enough gear to demonstrate the Tivoli Management Environment for Windows NT in an early form : it says the product will make it easy for systems administrators to manage , configure , change , monitor , and enforce security of NT systems across large networks , and enable systems managers to manage Windows NT and Unix systems , as well as Windows and MS-DOS client machines , from a single , integrated systems-manager 's desktop ; it will start trickling out at the end of the year with a developer 's toolkit , and management applications will follow in early 1994 . |
| 12 | It is hard to find much at Comdex and the companion Windows World show that is not NT-related this year , and Tivoli Systems Inc winged in from Austin , Texas to announce that , as expected ( UX No 434 ) , it will develop a version of its product for NT , and brought along enough gear to demonstrate the Tivoli Management Environment for Windows NT in an early form . |
| 13 | Since England do not use a sweeper he has to come in at right-back , a position which tends to emphasise his limitations going forward . |
| 14 | Well if she 's home if she 's home I 'll get her to pop in at two , if she 's not home I 'll get her to come in at quarter past five . |
| 15 | Can you tell me , do you know if it will be okay for me to come in at quarter past four ? |
| 16 | Peter Swales : ‘ waiting for the right offer ’ to stand down at Maine Road |
| 17 | ‘ People have to come together at community level , to begin to talk and break down barriers . |
| 18 | Montenegro and Bulgaria were aggrieved to obtain less at Berlin than they had won earlier by fighting . |
| 19 | To work merely at sentence level is to ignore crucially important aspects of text . |
| 20 | They attended the same school in Chelsea , became firm friends and many years later were to work together at Cambridge in the interests of botany . |
| 21 | His father was staying in the same house , and did n't know I was staying there , so I used to creep in at night . |
| 22 | In more ‘ traditional ’ couples the men were actually more likely to pitch in at home — perhaps , Hochschild hypothesizes , because they felt less threatened . |
| 23 | When the subject of education was brought up and it was pointed out that the girl had not been going to school he said that she was not learning anything at school anyway , that she was much safer here than at the school she had been to , where she had been threatened with knives in the playground and that she could learn all a wife needed to know better at home . |
| 24 | says , you know , told her to come over at night you know |
| 25 | He liked to work away at Latin or Greek , or to pick books of history or biography off the shelves . |
| 26 | This was especially the case in B , where staff were considered unapproachable , and where students were expected to work individually at labs : |
| 27 | He laughed loudly at things that were n't funny and littered his English with expletives to appear more at home in the language . |
| 28 | I used to come here for weekends and I used to come home at weekend and holiday time . |
| 29 | The mothers and children were out of sight now , reduced to no more than faint yelps from among the council houses built on rising ground above the green , and there was no-one else about , and would not be , until the men began to come home at dusk . |
| 30 | But , my , if he were to come home at Aintree on Old Applejack how the tale would be told . |