Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] [to-vb] at [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Following discussions between Bond , the Shrewsbury board and Burnley police , Bond has agreed to stay at home rather than attend the match and provoke violent scenes on the terraces . |
| 2 | Stephen Gamble , aged twenty-seven , a glass-house foreman at Oxford University Botanic Garden , is travelling to the USA to study educational and interpretive techniques at gardens and botanical collections on the Eastern Seaboard ; Fergus McCormick , a 28 year-old architect , will visit East Germany and Poland to examine the practical philosophy behind the restoration and reconstruction of historic buildings in the aftermath of the Second World War ; and Peter Sturgess , aged twenty-three , a postgraduate student at Liverpool University , has chosen to look at management , educational and interpretive techniques in parts of the Algarve . |
| 3 | In some of the comments which follow , we can see that students are discussing more than a subject which they happened to choose to study at college : they are discussing issues which are central to their lives . |
| 4 | We 've been to Penthurst , I think we 're going to have to stay at home . |
| 5 | She knows that if she had pointed this out to William , and expressed her own wish to take child , and papers , to the Common , William would obligingly have offered to stay at home and chop carrots and peel potatoes and keep an eye on the lamb in the oven . |
| 6 | If I 'd been at school I think I 'd have wanted to leave at Easter . |
| 7 | Today he would have liked to remain at Hillmarden for another night , but he had promised Celia he would call in at the clinic on his way back to London , knowing he had a very busy week coming which might make it impossible to see her again until the following weekend . |
| 8 | Often their frustration is made worse as they do not wish to admit to stress at work in case it appears on employment or insurance records . |
| 9 | I think , I think you do need to look at power , I think that 's quite a crucial er |
| 10 | Arthur Pridmore , when he did condescend to talk at breakfast , talked with the magisterial authority of head of his family , Mr. Bowlem 's bailiff and People 's warden at the village church . |
| 11 | You do n't have to come too early only I 've got to go at quarter to seven . |
| 12 | Er , I 've been robbed and swindled , er I was burgled two months ago , my house was wrecked all my jewellery every thing taken simply because I had left my windows open slightly , now I 've got to sleep at night with all my windows closed and I do n't get a good nights sleep apart from feeling insecure any way and er the swindle er I trusted people and now I ca n't trust any body and that leaves you feeling very insecure . |
| 13 | You 've got to stay at home and have children — men ca n't have them . |
| 14 | ‘ You 've got to look at evidence , that 's what you 've got to do ! ’ |
| 15 | She said local library and the local library could be run by the regional council , it could be run by the district council because although you work part-time you 've got to look at pension if you 've got other income er to use the revenue maximum . |
| 16 | The preceding age of English literature , after all , between the two world wars , had been notably un-British : its finest poets an American called T. S. Eliot and an Irishman called W. B. Yeats , its greatest novelists — Bloomsbury apart — James Joyce and a handful of Americans who , for the most part , had preferred to stay at home . |
| 17 | Soon they were laughing over the melodrama of it ; how quickly he had seemed to arrive at death 's door , and how absurdly soon afterwards he was stuffing his face and bouncing with health . |
| 18 | It is nor particularly heavy on the controls , but it does tend to fishtail at bit , due to the massive engine up-front and a relatively small fin and rudder at the rear . |
| 19 | The central point of the book is a reflection of a non-technical ‘ wider ecumenism ’ , ‘ a juxtapositioning of mental shapes or ideas through which the poet had learned to look at life , his own and that reflected by others . ’ |
| 20 | Liz had continued to live at home with her parents , but she was now thinking about going to stay with her brother and his wife for a few weeks . |
| 21 | ‘ Many who had planned to stay at home will now go away , others will feel they can afford a second holiday . ’ |
| 22 | I had grown more and more tired , energy seeped away and I had begun to sweat at night . |
| 23 | They 've juggled to entertain at college balls and parties this summer , but for their latest production , their first in a theatre , for safety fire has been replaced by ultra violet light . |
| 24 | The name is supposed to come from their usage as cool stores for butter that farmers travelling the pass had failed to sell at market . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | ACET is in touch with around 300 infected individuals of which about 130 need support to stay at home . |
| 27 | As these lectures are concerned with the role of religion I have decided to look at Marxism in terms of two triads — one of commitment and the other of outcome . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | If you have not worked regularly at some time since 1978 because you have had to stay at home to care for either a child or a sick or elderly person you may have protected your right to a pension by claiming HRP . |
| 30 | Men and women whether single or married who have been unable to work regularly because they have had to stay at home to care for children and/o-r a disabled or elderly person may be able to safeguard their pension by claiming Home Responsibilities Protection . |