Example sentences of "[to-vb] [noun sg] at [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Speaking in a debate on the food question , J. R. Clynes , Minister of Food in the Coalition Government , used the apparent progress on the international front to preach patience at home : |
| 2 | Drama provides another major resource in overcoming passivity , in stimulating children to become actively involved in thinking about language , and in helping them to enjoy literature at school so that they will continue to read and to act and to attend theatrical performances for the rest of their lives . |
| 3 | AS SOME 7,000 exhausted but happy East Germans arrived in West Germany on special trains early yesterday , hundreds who missed the trains joined the queue to go west at embassies in Prague and Warsaw . |
| 4 | " Then they have to go to the Chinese to borrow money at highwaymen 's rates . |
| 5 | A jury decided Pryse-Jones was unfit to stand trial at court because of his mental illness . |
| 6 | Two men have been charged in connection with the accident and are due to stand trial at Gloucester Crown Court . |
| 7 | But the court accepted the prosecution 's argument that there was a case to answer and committed Coun Garvey to stand trial at Teesside Crown Court . |
| 8 | During a brief spell in the Marshalsea he is modestly attentive to the Dorrits , and afterwards helps Little Dorrit to find work at Mrs Clennam 's . |
| 9 | They may have a medical problem which the doctor can help with , but the doctor can also help them to find help at home . |
| 10 | In the late 1930s the Sussex Rother was subjected to total clearance at Bodiam . |
| 11 | Equally understandably , seasonal workers are not entitled to paid time off during their temporary employment since they are employed to Provide manpower at peak periods . |
| 12 | Ian Stark : hopes to secure place at Cheltenham |
| 13 | Meantime , he reminded himself , since the entire company was now assembled , he had better be about sending off Father Boniface 's errand-boy to find Aldhelm at Upton among his sheep , and ask him to come down to the abbey when his work for the day was over , and pick out his shadowy Benedictine from among a number now complete . |
| 14 | Willing buyers and sellers should be able to transact business at prices that reflect supply and demand . |
| 15 | It was left to her brothers to pass comment at lunch the following day . |
| 16 | Resource decentralisation is practised in the Kent Community Care Scheme which attempts to provide care at home for frail elderly people as a means of avoiding institutional care . |
| 17 | If it was a struggle to establish techno at home , by comparison , other places took to Inner City immediately . |
| 18 | The government 's decision to impose VAT at 8pc in 1994 and at the standard rate of 17pc 12 months later could reverse a trend which has seen customer disconnections fall by 70 pc in the past 12 months and Manweb said only six customers were disconnected for non payment in the past six months . |
| 19 | In July , two or three weeks after arriving in the United States , Eliot travelled to Washington in order to visit Pound at St Elizabeth 's , the asylum where he was being held . |
| 20 | George returned to design work at Bagnalls . |
| 21 | The Kuwaiti news agency KUNA reported on Feb. 28 that the Amir had established a committee under the Crown Prince to oversee security at home and abroad . |
| 22 | It 's important for instance to guard safety at work . |
| 23 | He 's set to cause pandemonium at toyshops when the new Super Mario Land 2 game is launched next week . |
| 24 | THE National Trust has arranged four boat trips to view wildlife at Strangford Lough . |
| 25 | Preparatory schools proliferated to replace tuition at home and to provide a middle-class alternative to the Board Schools following compulsory education in 1870 . |
| 26 | Take the coast path out of Beer , passing Beer Head and descending into the undercliff to reach sea-level at Branscombe Mouth , then up West Cliff . |
| 27 | Points to remember section at end of each chapter provide useful review of the language needed to produce a specific effect in a given context . |
| 28 | We left the Tower by a postern gate and went along Hog Street , turning right to hear Mass at St Mary Grace 's church . |
| 29 | A number of prominent politicians failed to win election at constituency level but nevertheless entered parliament on their party 's national lists ( where " scrap votes " , i.e. those cast for unsuccessful constituency candidates or county lists , were added together to form a national total ) . |
| 30 | Religious propaganda could also be exploited : an inscription ( IGi 3 9 ) shows that Athens , probably in the 450s , made an alliance with the Amphictyonic League , in other words , she was continuing Themistokles ' policy of trying to win influence at Delphi . |