Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] [adj] [to-vb] at " in BNC.
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| 1 | This will provide an unprecedented opportunity for many to experience at first hand the richness and diversity of Japanese culture . |
| 2 | He had come to Salzburg from his parental home in Augsburg in 1737 to study at the University with the intention of becoming a priest , but his love of music had led him instead to take up an appointment initially with the Canon of Salzburg before joining the Archbishop 's household . |
| 3 | Sometimes they 're just aesthetically pleasing things ; some of the old Gretsch amplifiers and that kind of thing are kind of cool to look at . |
| 4 | She came to England in 1904 to study at the London School of Economics , where she wrote a doctoral thesis on the development of New South Wales , gaining a D.Sc . |
| 5 | He only got a ‘ C ’ for music , but he was the only one in his group of nine to pass at all , which in an odd way is a consolation — & suggests poor teaching . |
| 6 | At 90 not out , he still pads up ready to bat at the end of the order , but in a four hour match seldom gets to the crease . |
| 7 | Stoltenberg said on Oct. 25 that the study , to be conducted by the High Level Group ( HLG-set up by the NPG in 1979 to look at theatre nuclear weapons ) , would report possibly in 1991 ( ie before the 1992 deadline which NATO had set itself for a decision on short-range nuclear weapons ) , and could form the basis of a mandate for a short-range nuclear forces ( SNF ) treaty . |
| 8 | They took the little house two doors away from Ken and Rhoda ; her own to play with , to sweep and dust and arrange as she liked , and meals for two to cook at her discretion , and her father and grandmother just down the road so she had both a respite from them and could keep an eye on them , not too close but not too far . |
| 9 | They were all eating miniature versions of proper food — a sliver of lamb like a lark 's tongue , a single braised spinach leaf , a mushroom tart no bigger than a cuff-link — like guests in a doll 's house , and trying to ignore the fact that the area around their table , which might have provided space for twelve to stand at a pinch , had now about 300 people in it . |
| 10 | Yes so lots of games for United to play at the moment with the postponements , a lot of mid-week games , a lot of games up here at the Manor , but erm as so often happens with United , after a good performance or a little a good run , they never quite do it at home do they , they never quite kill sides off and they draw in games that they 've played very well as they have done today . |
| 11 | As has been seen , the choice of Pétain to command at Verdun was made less because of his qualities than because he happened to be available at the moment . |
| 12 | The anxiety created by the boredom of being locked all night and most of the day in a stable or very small yard with little to look at , forces the horse to create some activity for itself which will help relieve the boredom . |
| 13 | One afternoon we went up to Croydon St. in Karori to look at our old house . |
| 14 | In extreme cases , say of a family from the remote rural areas of Azad Kashmir , if the mother has just had a baby , it is known for daughters of twelve to stay at home from school for weeks , do all the cooking , look after the younger children and generally run the home . |
| 15 | The trade-weighted index was also lifted by the better sentiment towards the pound , rising from a historic opening low of 75.7 to end at 76.3 . |
| 16 | " Private Eye " fell into this trap when it beat off an interim injunction from Robert Maxwell by promising to prove at trial that he had financed Neil Kinnock 's foreign travel in the hope of being awarded a peerage . |