Example sentences of "[to-vb] at [noun sg] [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Living rooms that also have to act as office or work room by day ( and more and more people elect to work at home if they can these days ) can still perform both functions with comparative case . |
| 2 | Yes but the , Julie said , and she 's right of course , you ca n't have the erm strength of drugs to , to , to administer at home because obviously |
| 3 | This gives him the chance to escape at night while The Count of Monte Cristo is on the radio . |
| 4 | She said local library and the local library could be run by the regional council , it could be run by the district council because although you work part-time you 've got to look at pension if you 've got other income er to use the revenue maximum . |
| 5 | A lot of people tend to look at assertion as being aggressive there 's a total difference . |
| 6 | A police spokesman said : ‘ We had to leave at speed because emotions were running so high . ’ |
| 7 | On the other hand the slaves were rather more likely to revolt at sea than anyone else , and they were much more likely to commit suicide or die of shock and despair . |
| 8 | This self-perception is said to start at birth as the infant begins to develop a feeling of trust . |
| 9 | Our aim is to enable people to live and to die at home if that is their wish and appropriate to their needs . |
| 10 | He believes that the medical profession is encouraging Down 's babies to die at birth because of ignorance and fear . |
| 11 | In some areas and in some social groups , children continue to live at home until they marry . |
| 12 | The implication of this strong argument is that it may become cheaper in straightforward labour cost terms at the level of the economy to pay some people to stay at home while automated machinery produces the goods and services . |
| 13 | The school will be closed for up to a week , and pupils will have to stay at home while temporary buildings are put up on the site . |
| 14 | After one or two walks over the hills together the girl preferred to stay at home so the mother went on her own ; on one of these occasions Peony had actually tidied up and got tea ready and gone a little way along the track to meet her mother when she saw her coming up the hill . |
| 15 | Once a deal was struck between matchmaker and the parents , the girl had to stay at home until her marriage . |
| 16 | ‘ You 'll have to stay at home till the baby 's born , wo n't you ? ’ |
| 17 | And I never went to hospital because me cousin was a nurse who 'd er you know got married and so she er proffered to nurse me which she did and er the then er health people in allowed me to stay at home because of this you see and I was at home and er that was in nineteen sixteen . |
| 18 | They 've been told to stay at home because of a one-day strike by staff protesting about redundancies . |
| 19 | Hundreds of children are being forced to stay at home because its feared high winds could damage their school buildings . |
| 20 | He even wanted her to stay at school after she was sixteen , but she got round him there . |
| 21 | However , we would expect the effect of terminal education age to differ among people of different generations : 16 was the minimum school-leaving age for sample members aged 28 or less , whereas any respondents aged 80 or older did not even have to stay at school till they were 14 . |
| 22 | Frederick , who is developing a sideline in composing , plans to stay at school until after A-levels before going to a musical academy . |
| 23 | Mrs Glews : Well you just got used to it really ; you did n't have to go at night if you did n't want to . |
| 24 | With Sykes about to go at Christmas as well , they were really up the creek . |
| 25 | As is widely known , results showed that those in the experimental group were more likely to remain at home than those in the control group , that the scheme held no cost disadvantages , that levels of subjective stress in carers were reduced , and that there were ‘ significant improvements in a range of indicators of subjective well-being and quality of care ’ for the clients in the experimental group compared with the control group . |
| 26 | They told him to ignore it and to remain at home where they would join him for the evening . |
| 27 | Help at this time may help you or the person you look after to remain at home as confidence is slowly regained in managing in a new situation . |
| 28 | Until the age restrictions were introduced in secondary schools , it was not uncommon for boys to continue at school as long as it took — even until twenty-two or so . |
| 29 | Commanders were selected at top level of course , after which they were invited to attend at HQ where they would sift through the applications from prospective crew members , discuss them with the administrating Inspector and eventually come to a mutual agreement on the crewing of each cutter for the following year . |
| 30 | He might condescend to attend at half-time if there was n't a party or a bird somewhere . |