Example sentences of "[noun] [vb base] [vb pp] [to-vb] at " in BNC.
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| 1 | Hungarians have begun to train at Sandhurst , Britain 's main officer-training college . |
| 2 | But trade has been so bad that organisers have had to shed at least half their shop staff . |
| 3 | Now that Hearts have decided to remain at a re-developed Tynecastle , Gulliver has resigned from the board . |
| 4 | What is surprising is that so few feminist researchers in the sociology of education have chosen to look at higher education , when so much work has been done on secondary education and , to a lesser extent , on primary education . |
| 5 | ‘ Very well attended , as an opening occasion should be , but I think half of these people have come to stare at Emily Grenfell who has done the unthinkable and gone into trade . ’ |
| 6 | His are primarily paintings , compositions in which he includes other objects with ‘ a universal symbolism that 's not precise — people have got to arrive at their own interpretation , ’ he stresses . |
| 7 | And let us , well that 's right , I mean that 's partly covered by erm , by in the sense that whilst as far as this year 's concerned , erm , it 's too late for that , but then if the government have agreed to look at , look at special service calls again for next year . |
| 8 | However , official figures suggest that more girls have tended to stay at school to secondary level than boys , both in the homelands and in DET areas . |
| 9 | On Saturday they lost to Bath by 20 points to nil … and here 's a fact to blow your socks off it was the first time in 16 years and 420 games that the cherry and whites have failed to score at home |
| 10 | WHILE the recession has reduced many families ' incomes , school fees have continued to rise at about twice the rate of inflation . |
| 11 | Now , the happy couple have decided to marry at the Ipswich Register Office on August 14 . |
| 12 | In group A the Paper Tigers with their amazing bouncing ball have lifted their rounders difference to great heights while Dr Blobby and the Blobettes have at last picked up some points from a game , which means that all teams this year have managed to win at least one point . |
| 13 | Not surprisingly , these reports have tended to appear at times when fatalities have occurred as a result of fires when occupants have been asleep . |
| 14 | Plenty of other good bands around the country have tried to grab at the coat-tails the Manchester scene and failed as a result . |
| 15 | Plenty of other good bands around the country have tried to grab at the coat-tails the Manchester scene and failed as a result . |
| 16 | In Barbados ( and other places such as Jamaica and Antigua ) , the wickets are fast and so the bowlers have traditionally bowled fast , while the batsmen have looked to attack at every opportunity , to hit the ball as hard and as gleefully as possible . |
| 17 | ‘ This year over seventy new overseas students have come to study at Napier University , ’ announced Professor Turmeau , at the reception held to mark the occasion . |
| 18 | Improved facilities for cyclists have started to happen at local level , largely because Lothian Region now has a 3-person cycle team , the existence of which was fought for , long and hard over many years . |
| 19 | So far 11 clubs have agreed to meet at the Nelson Pub in Brownlees on February 20 . |
| 20 | In Chile , they provide a source of protest against the military government ; in Bolivia , the miners , wives fought alongside their husbands to get better working conditions and pay ; Nicaraguan women have formed a distinct group within the Sandinista revolutionary movement ; and in Brazil , women 's groups have formed to protest at price rises in food and other essentials . |
| 21 | A hundred and thirty staff at a factory destroyed by fire have volunteered to work at the company 's plant in France . |
| 22 | Over the past 18 months the MCofS have attempted to arrive at the compromise statement on the contentious issue of bolting in Scotland . |