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 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | ‘ People have to come together at community level , to begin to talk and break down barriers . |
| 5 | Montenegro and Bulgaria were aggrieved to obtain less at Berlin than they had won earlier by fighting . |
| 6 | To work merely at sentence level is to ignore crucially important aspects of text . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | He liked to work away at Latin or Greek , or to pick books of history or biography off the shelves . |
| 10 | This was especially the case in B , where staff were considered unapproachable , and where students were expected to work individually at labs : |
| 11 | He laughed loudly at things that were n't funny and littered his English with expletives to appear more at home in the language . |
| 12 | I used to come here for weekends and I used to come home at weekend and holiday time . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | But , my , if he were to come home at Aintree on Old Applejack how the tale would be told . |
| 15 | It offers practical courses in the arts and crafts to those who wish to work mainly at home , yet take advantage of professional tutorial support . |
| 16 | So , just before his seventeenth birthday , a thin , gangly boy , but ( as Lionel Luyt remarked ) completely unselfconscious , with a nose still red from his operation , John Cranko began to work full-time at ballet . |
| 17 | Many of them used to meet regularly at Shirreff 's wine bar under Ludgate Circus where , despite a lifelong stammer , Lewis more than held his own ; he was indeed described by Belloc as the wittiest man he had ever known . |
| 18 | But , Shelley , the idea was for you to work here at Monte Samana while he works at Santa Barbara . |
| 19 | People used to come here at night at harvest festival time and pray and dance . |
| 20 | ‘ I would n't want to come here at night ! ’ |
| 21 | Tom himself said it was because he had to work hard at school at subjects other than music , he could not devote himself wholeheartedly to the flute . |
| 22 | ‘ It 's about how you live and how you want your children to live , having certain attitudes , such as that it 's important to be polite and respect your elders and that you should want to work hard at school , ’ was one typical comment . |
| 23 | They would include : opportunities for students to see or experience equipment or processes which are not on offer within the institution ; the chance for a student to sample a possible future job or career ; the opportunity to learn something ( not much ) of the lives led in employment by their neighbours , their parents or their peer-group , so that they may grow up more understanding and more tolerant ( this rather pious hope may in fact be quite unjustified , they may have confirmed or developed disdain or envy for others ) ; a good student may catch the eye of an employer looking for a later recruit ; absence may lend enchantment to the view of the college and the students may return from work-experience reassured about their choice of education ; students may be motivated to work hard at college by the prospect of either securing a job like the one they have seen or tried , or by the determination to avoid a similar fate ; all these outcomes may be little more predictable than the consequences of going to the zoo for a visit . |
| 24 | Well , you 'll have to work hard at swimming . ’ |
| 25 | Is committed to work ecumenically at home and overseas . |
| 26 | Sometimes you 'll have to work late at night , because of time differences in New York and Tokyo . |
| 27 | Resident Magistrate Harry Hall remanded Caldwell in custody to appear again at Crumlin Road courthouse on October 1 . |
| 28 | But the two crews are likely to meet again at Henley and the scene is set for a classic confrontation . |
| 29 | One of the first to go ashore at St Pierre after the disaster was the Vicar-General of Martinique , Monsieur Parel , who was at Fort-de-France on the morning of the eighth , having left St Pierre only the afternoon before . |
| 30 | You know , like , cos it 's , used to say now , I mean I 'd like to , I would like to go away at Christmas |