Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] [to-vb] at [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Scotsman reported on I September that " members of the Women Compositors " , Readers " and Monotype Operators " Union intend to remain at work in the event of a strike " . |
| 2 | Their excuse — not that lame — is that they frequently have to cater for up to 80,000 , mainly male , football fans wanting to go at half-time . |
| 3 | Attacks on some of Iran 's smaller towns and cities occurred comparatively early in the war , but apart from the first two days , it is not clear when either side decided to strike at population centres as a strategic option . |
| 4 | Ceauşescu liked to win at chess : the result of the game asserted his supremacy over his opponent in politics as much as the skills of the game itself — few risked beating the Comrade . |
| 5 | The general pattern of pausing in this experiment proved to be very similar to that found in the earlier experiment ; subjects tended to pause at clause boundaries . |
| 6 | Southerners tend to drink at home . |
| 7 | Janice plans to stay at home and devote herself to looking after me and Kirsty . ’ |
| 8 | In particular , for reasons that will be taken up below , the Nottinghamshire miners decided to remain at work . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Another concern is that it can also promote compulsive night-time wetting as the child learns to urinate at night rather than inhibit urination ( Doleys 1978 ) . |
| 11 | Once a deal was struck between matchmaker and the parents , the girl had to stay at home until her marriage . |
| 12 | Isabel turned to look at fitzAlan before answering . |
| 13 | Western economists tend to talk at length about theory ; the easterners are mainly interested in practice . |
| 14 | Then the children start to arrive and the husband has to stay at home at nights with the wife and help look after them . |
| 15 | Around Malvern in Worcestershire driving snow slowed rush hour traffic to a crawl , as it did on high ground in Gloucestershire when overnight rain turned to snow at dawn . |
| 16 | What we can glean , though , and what Goody appears to take at face value , is some insight into how they represented themselves , such as in the statements they made about the reliability of their own accounts . |
| 17 | If we take the research on goals plus the experience of practitioners in the selection business we will find a high degree of consensus about the more frequently cited goals that individuals attempt to satisfy at work . |
| 18 | There has been a small reduction in cigarette smoking , to 1,008 per capita ; military spending fell in 1990 and figures for 1991 were expected to show a further decline ; and significantly smaller quantities of ozone-depleting chemicals are being produced ; but , disturbingly , grain production has fallen while population continues to grow at record rates . |
| 19 | Sometimes some of the sheep and goats are hidden , and when the flock comes to rest at midday the boy is given a few minutes in which to inspect gothorima and report . |
| 20 | Having painted as a child , Stewart began to experiment at college ( the American College of London ) by applying patterns to everything in sight , from folding screens to lamps , and floor cloths to cutlery handles . |
| 21 | The artists began to hint at change ; Japanese prints were re-educating the European eye and African masks attracted the attention of the sculptor and painter . |
| 22 | Though money may follow the patient , postoperative morbidity tends to stay at home . |
| 23 | Also unaccompanied , like Nolan , though Harry had mentioned at one time that Lewis was married : his reclusive wife preferred to stay at home to avoid the fuss and fracas of Lewis drunk . |
| 24 | It is particularly attractive to firms with strong institutional placing power ; retail firms prefer to sell at issue price , retaining full fees as profit , rather than selling at the lower fixed reoffer price set by the lead manager . |
| 25 | ‘ MANY as are the virtues of the Moon under Water I think that the garden is the best feature , because it allows whole families to go there instead of Mum having to stay at home and mind baby while Dad goes out alone . |
| 26 | Rangers failed to win at home again this week . |
| 27 | In Leeds , Newton Park Union Church not only had a seventy-foot tower but a clock which Leeds Corporation agreed to illuminate at night . |
| 28 | A lot of people tend to look at assertion as being aggressive there 's a total difference . |
| 29 | Mrs Burrows called this afternoon while you were on the shore and said that Harry was most anxious you should take part in some theatricals the young people want to perform at Easter . |
| 30 | 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 . |