Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [verb] at [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We buy theatre tickets and have the restaurant booked when , if we stopped and checked what we actually wanted to do , we might find we would much prefer to stay at home and have an early night . ’ |
| 2 | Mr Gaviria has sensibly decided to operate at arm 's length , seeking influence through private meetings with all sides . |
| 3 | You 've only got to look at history … slavery which led into colonialism which developed into full-blown imperialism , right on up to the present-day immigration policies . |
| 4 | Tough , fit , not in the least prone to injury and highly consistent in his performances , Cross was the epitome of the ideal player , and he was versatile too , in a time when this was not really expected of a footballer , for he moved across to right-back after the signing of Scotsman Bobby Orr , who much preferred to play at number three , in 1927 . |
| 5 | I mean , you only have to look at top of that cupboard , and it were do n't yesterday . |
| 6 | But we can see the horror now , we only need to look at television and Yugoslavia . |
| 7 | Yet it is in precisely this sort of situation that a woman who has hitherto chosen to stay at home with her children may need to seek work . |
| 8 | The boat was too small for a long journey , and I did not want to die at sea . |
| 9 | Indeed , the author of Le débat des hérauts d'armes could state that the French nobility did not regard fighting at sea as being a noble activity : it is perhaps for this reason that naval warfare did not feature in the chronicles in the way that war on land did . |
| 10 | Feeling desolate , she climbed back into the car , not daring to look at Roman in the silver moonlight . |
| 11 | And I just want to look at capital deployment here . |
| 12 | We can not expect to arrive at consensus easily — there are a lot of things which may not seem to fit at all — but we can at least want to find out what is in common before worrying about what appears to contradict . |
| 13 | Relatives need help with grieving , for past relationships in the family can easily become crystallised at death . |
| 14 | Well you 've just got to look at section twenty eight , now section twenty five , how like we are being discriminated against how even like |
| 15 | Get your appetite where you can , just remember to eat at home . ’ |
| 16 | " I just remember feeling at home . |
| 17 | It is quicker too , as I can knit the 60 rows in one go and do not have to stop at row 30 . |
| 18 | These are eminently sensible things , which Reagan would not have done at gunpoint , and much the same themes run through the more contentious measures . |
| 19 | They would not have felt at ease if the beach had been entirely unpeopled , and indeed it was not , but over here balls would not bounce nor running youngsters kick sand up on to their towels , and there was the shade essential for Jack , which his wife had still to remind him about . |
| 20 | William was excommunicated in 1619 and Jacob in 1634 , although he had already refused to kneel at communion in 1627 . |
| 21 | If they use this formula and then get a report they do not like and on which they do not intend to rely at trial , then they are not committed to disclose it . |
| 22 | I do not intend to rehearse at length — the opportunity for that will come tomorrow — the powerful arguments , financial and practical , which would support the abolition of this rule at the earliest possible date . |
| 23 | • If you can not get to sleep at night , stay in bed and rest . |
| 24 | Sending Ælfgifu and Swegen to Norway perhaps had its advantages here , and maybe Harold Harefoot was not allowed to live at court , which might partly explain alleged doubts about his identity . |
| 25 | Adequate resources must be provided by central government , but much of the cost could be met from accumulated capital receipts , which councils are not allowed to spend at present ! |
| 26 | In the holidays I was not allowed to watch at home either . ’ |
| 27 | I just had to stay at home for a bit . |
| 28 | The girl said she still thinks fondly of her time in England — but could not bear to stay at University College any longer . |
| 29 | Meanwhile work continued at Tilberthwaite and two new tunnels were in hand one said to be upon the South Lode , the other in a lode cut in a rooting slate quarry , probably Penny Rigg . |
| 30 | ‘ It was important to come back after Saturday , and we always want to win at home . |