Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [noun] at [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I risked another Middleditch and luckily caught Bunny at home . |
| 2 | Unfortunately genital carriage of group B streptococcus is unstable , so a swab taken during pregnancy does not necessarily predict carriage at delivery . |
| 3 | White duly came down to London from his home in Wolverhampton — he is the senior member of a remarkable quartet of Elvis Gordon , Dennis Stewart and the banned Kerrith Brown who have all won medals at world level , yet all train in the back room of an Edwardian bath house . |
| 4 | But the convention only covers pollution at sea , whereas most coastal pollution arises inland , from industrial discharges , untreated sewage , fertiliser run-off and erosion . |
| 5 | At seven a.m. the following morning , contemplating newspaper headlines which screamed ‘ The Filth and the Fury ’ , and with the clamour of shareholders ringing in his ears , Leslie Hill personally telephoned Branson at home with a simple request , ‘ Can we talk ? ’ |
| 6 | This was just an excuse : the real reason they wanted to come was that they very much needed food at home . |
| 7 | They put their hands behind their backs and said , ‘ Oh , we 've all got chilblains at school . ’ |
| 8 | By raising the question of the Holy Places the French President not only gained ground at home but also set in train a long-term policy . |
| 9 | I asked Scotty whether this description suited those long gone days at Sun … |
| 10 | She referred to her own family : parents , brother and sisters who all spoke English at home . |
| 11 | She describes the context of the child care service , the preventive services and what happens when they are not enough to maintain children at home . |
| 12 | One negative comment : No-one greeting people at door , no explanation of layout of house , better to have meal at end than beginning , start too early . |
| 13 | This could have forced us to accept fixed exchange rates for the pound , restricting industrial growth and so putting jobs at risk . |
| 14 | So you only spoke Welsh at home ? |
| 15 | A much loved wife at home to keep , |
| 16 | Burying a much loved pet at home can provide great emotional support at a distressing time , but it can also present practical problems |
| 17 | A new publicity campaign aimed at lightening the load of those who have to manually handle goods at work — the biggest single group who suffer work-related accidents has been launched by the Health and Safety Executive ( HSE ) . |
| 18 | THE computers that most companies want do not beat grandmasters at chess , attempt to predict the weather , or do scientists out of a job . |
| 19 | Theirs had been one of those childless , self-absorbing marriages which unconsciously repel attempts at intimacy . |
| 20 | Nails did not like evenings at home , which is why he stayed out . |
| 21 | In any case he does not see students at home . ’ |
| 22 | Although he was on Oxfords , or even Ansons , he was nevertheless getting experience at night and this was important if he wanted to become a Mosquito Pathfinder . |
| 23 | ( Luke : The account of the trial in Luke does not take place at night but in the morning . |
| 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 | We do always tell them not to keep cash at home . |
| 26 | He was trying desperately to keep memories at bay . |
| 27 | This involves working mentally and physically to keep distractions at bay , guarding the tongue to speak little and to the point , taking especial care not to misrepresent others , living as if death might come tomorrow and balancing the needs of the body with the longings of the spirit in discretion . |
| 28 | And he no longer took things at face value . |
| 29 | This generally took place at Easter preceded by confession , often in public , in which the social duty of making restitution for sin was stressed ; it might be succeeded by a parish party which played out at its own level the eternal being of love celebrated in the Mass . |
| 30 | If a patient can not change position at will , the nurse becomes responsible for doing it for him . |