Example sentences of "[vb infin] [noun sg] at [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Labour would throw money at industry . |
| 2 | Unfortunately genital carriage of group B streptococcus is unstable , so a swab taken during pregnancy does not necessarily predict carriage at delivery . |
| 3 | To reclaim or recycle waste at source . |
| 4 | Jason and I made a pact that we would n't discuss hairdressing at home unless we had to and we think that is even more important now that we have the baby . |
| 5 | ‘ Though , ’ she qualified , ‘ I did enjoy botany at school , and I 'd love to see your ghost orchids . ’ |
| 6 | If £1 billion of Treasury bills are sold to the discount houses , the discount houses will borrow money at call from the banks , or sell bills to the banks , to pay for these Treasury bills . |
| 7 | Well our milkman , to be honest with you , it got to the stage where he would n't collect milk at night to collect the cash at night . |
| 8 | Do you do German at school ? |
| 9 | Often she ca n't do PE at school and ca n't walk very far . |
| 10 | HIBS can tuck away their passports until their summer hols if they do n't beat Anderlecht at Easter Road on Tuesday night . |
| 11 | The two causes were closely linked from the 1840s and it is not surprising that when Cassell visited New York in 1853 as a delegate to a World Temperance Convention he would also use Beecher at work in Ohio . |
| 12 | We need the Inverness unit back so we can keep trouble at bay . ’ |
| 13 | A thin smear of Vaseline on all snap-on terminals , and internal spring and pins will help keep corrosion at bay . |
| 14 | ‘ Charity , if you ca n't see destiny at work in all this , you 're blinder than your glasses , thick as they were , ever led me to believe . ’ |
| 15 | BOXER Michael Watson will celebrate Christmas at home — after 14 months in hospital . |
| 16 | We have looked at abilities , experience and goals as they might influence behaviour at work . |
| 17 | An EC envoy said yesterday that an ‘ immediate and total ceasefire ’ would take effect at midnight last night across the republic , following talks between leaders from Bosnia 's Serbian , Croatian and Muslim communities . |
| 18 | We did n't have snow at home . |
| 19 | This is because electricity generation is far more efficient when demand is consistent and the fact that recharging would take place at night plus the fact that peak transport demand is generally in summer , would mean that more generating plant could operate consistently at full load thus lowering the unit cost of electricity . |
| 20 | ( Luke : The account of the trial in Luke does not take place at night but in the morning . |
| 21 | The Image Processing ‘ 92 exhibition will take place at Hall 7 , NEC , Birmingham from 10–12 November . |
| 22 | further alterations can take place at will , when you are finishing off , by adding piping or braiding to neaten neck edges and so on . |
| 23 | Performance-based activity may , of course , take place at classroom level , in small-scale improvisational sessions or in text work . |
| 24 | Casual , individual violence was almost certainly more common than today but ‘ hooliganism ’ in the collective and contemporary sense did not take place at football matches . |
| 25 | Here f t denotes the logarithm of the forward rate at time t for foreign exchange transactions which will take place at time t + 1 . |
| 26 | There were still the horses to do , and they would have trouble at home about the missing school clothes , needed tomorrow . |
| 27 | You could also hear music at home on a wind-up gramophone with ten- or twelve-inch 78 r.p.m. bakelite records . |
| 28 | Audio visual and special effects will allow visitors to realistically experience life at sea . |
| 29 | He tried to lighten his mood , grinning at her like a schoolboy , ‘ Apart from anything else we could make love at breakfast-time , lunch-time and tea-time . ’ |
| 30 | You ca n't make love at pistol point … her being filled with remorse , and she checked herself from flinging her arms round Lucy : steady , Jay , she told herself , we 're only seconds away from no , nay , never . |