Example sentences of "[noun] [vb past] [to-vb] at [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | In particular , for reasons that will be taken up below , the Nottinghamshire miners decided to remain at work . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Once a deal was struck between matchmaker and the parents , the girl had to stay at home until her marriage . |
| 7 | Isabel turned to look at fitzAlan before answering . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Rangers failed to win at home again this week . |
| 13 | In Leeds , Newton Park Union Church not only had a seventy-foot tower but a clock which Leeds Corporation agreed to illuminate at night . |
| 14 | Lyn was relegated from norw. premiership this season after the most dramatic relegation battle for years — they had to beat Brann , Bergen away with at least five goals and also Molde had to loose at home to Tromsoe. well Molde lost 1–0 and could have had a penalty . |
| 15 | Sarah chose to look at contract distribution and information systems division in her dissertation . |
| 16 | Yesterday , the former cabinet members promised to campaign at party meetings across Scotland to try to overturn the motion supporting the MPs ' actions , at the party 's next national council in June . |
| 17 | Timothy turned to look at Topaz and became strangely silent . |
| 18 | Linford set to retire at top |
| 19 | Wycliffe began to feel at peace with himself and the world . |
| 20 | They turned into an alleyway off Friday Street and Cranston began to bellow at passersby for the whereabouts of Parchmeiner 's shop . |
| 21 | J. Percy Bruce chose for his equivalent ‘ law ’ , and so incorporated into the Neo-Confucian terminology itself the wrong answer to the question ‘ Are there laws of nature in China ? ’ , a misunderstanding which Joseph Needham in elucidating the concepts of Chinese science had to analyse at length . |
| 22 | One apparent reason for the delay was the Bush adminstration 's fear that to conclude a free-trade pact in mid-1992 as originally envisaged would be an electoral liability in the US presidential contest , opening Bush to attacks from protectionists that he was encouraging US companies to relocate to Mexico in search of cheap labour while unemployment continued to rise at home . |
| 23 | John 's pupils continued to train at Lime Grove . |
| 24 | Party officials attributed this to antipathy to the " open ballot " system in which voters had to queue at polling booths behind the poster of their chosen candidate and were publicly counted . |
| 25 | So the problem is , if your child wants to go , if one of our children wanted to go at midnight , I 'm fairly sure that everybody in this Council Chamber would have quite a reasonable way of er of retaining that child in the home but of course we 've all heard the stories of what happens when the unruly children in the children 's homes want to go out at midnight and I do think we we have a problem because with the report and the new legislation , we 're in the situation where there 's plenty of advice for us as to what to do , what not to do should I say , we ca n't we ca n't use pindown , you ca n't shut them in a room , you ca n't physically restrain them , so how does one of the workers in the home stop them from going out ? |
| 26 | In WORDWISE + , the command ( f1 ) PN12(f2) could be input for a file which the user wished to start at PAGE 12 . |
| 27 | In December 1935 , Perrin decided to look at ethylene . |
| 28 | WHILE Terry had to stop at home , brother John soaked up the Spanish sunshine in a luxury holiday home on loan from an old friend . |
| 29 | In the economic circumstances of the time , most students had to live at home . |
| 30 | Nithard puts them in 839 : Charles 's mother , and the magnates who had worked on the will of his father to promote Charles 's cause , fearing that if Louis were to die before matters were settled , they would risk incurring the hatred of Charles 's brothers to their own ruin , advised that the father should choose one of those sons to be his helper so that , even if the others refused to remain at peace after their father 's death , these two at least would have been so firmly united that they would be able to withstand the hostility of their rivals . |