Example sentences of "[to-vb] [adv] at [noun sg] " 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 | ‘ People have to come together at community level , to begin to talk and break down barriers . |
| 3 | To work merely at sentence level is to ignore crucially important aspects of text . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | He liked to work away at Latin or Greek , or to pick books of history or biography off the shelves . |
| 6 | He laughed loudly at things that were n't funny and littered his English with expletives to appear more at home in the language . |
| 7 | I used to come here for weekends and I used to come home at weekend and holiday time . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | People used to come here at night at harvest festival time and pray and dance . |
| 12 | ‘ I would n't want to come here at night ! ’ |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | ‘ 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Well , you 'll have to work hard at swimming . ’ |
| 17 | Is committed to work ecumenically at home and overseas . |
| 18 | Sometimes you 'll have to work late at night , because of time differences in New York and Tokyo . |
| 19 | You know , like , cos it 's , used to say now , I mean I 'd like to , I would like to go away at Christmas |
| 20 | The front view clearly shows the tentacles — not as stiff as bristles ; the suckermouth ; and the rasping teeth used to grind away at vegetation and algae . |
| 21 | france crashing out at almost exactly 90 minutes with a great goal from kostadinov ( FC Porto , Portugal ) — that was fucking amazing when you think of that they went down to israel also at home in almost the same manner ( the other goals in this match was also a joy to watch — canto who said he never play in paris again was seen playing and scoring at least on my telly ) |
| 22 | It 's been difficult in = thing that you had to go home at night and keep watering like , your not doing anything else but watering , watering |
| 23 | Then he 's got to go home at lunchtime and give her some food . |
| 24 | I do n't ever want Geoff to drive home at night feeling he 's got to be with me whether he wants to or not . ’ |
| 25 | I learnt to sit formally at table and to eat three inedible courses of stodge with an incomprehensible array of surplus cutlery ; to whisper when I spoke as I was considered ‘ too loud ’ ; and to stop gesturing with my hands or to touch in conversation , as people inevitably shrank away from me . |
| 26 | In this instance , the grammar of BSL is rejected and the parser tends to look only at surface structure and provides word-for-sign matches . |
| 27 | The Services continued to run at the opposition and after Fenn was hauled down just short they took a half-time lead when quick hands gave Crossland sufficient room to veer inside at pace and score beneath the posts . |
| 28 | People were entitled to walk alone at night . |
| 29 | In a society where many women are afraid to walk alone at night does this increase in reporting increase women 's fear still further ? |
| 30 | Women are being warned not to walk alone at night after two attacks in Swindon town centre . |