Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] [to-vb] at [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Jennifer Batten has agreed to appear at London , demonstrating the amazing flair and technical ability that prompted Michael Jackson to hire Jennifer as his guitarist . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | By around two to four months the baby has learned to smile at strangers ( whether in pleasure or as a learned signal of interaction , or as a primitive placatory gesture , is debatable ) . |
| 4 | The UAW has tried to recruit at Toyota , but with scant success . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | It was suggested she 'd gone to live at Newport in Gwent , but she was never located . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | We 've been to Penthurst , I think we 're going to have to stay at home . |
| 9 | That one 's he 's supposed to be getting married to live at Wellingdon |
| 10 | There was no doubt about it — things were going to be tight if she decided to continue to live at Tullivers . |
| 11 | He would have preferred to stay at Lyons , but he set out at once in mid-March , and arrived in Rome about the end of April 1098 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | If I 'd been at school I think I 'd have wanted to leave at Easter . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | I think , I think you do need to look at power , I think that 's quite a crucial er |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Zips : there is a good-sized zip baffle but the zip did tend to catch at times when pulling from the inside . |
| 19 | Kendon ( 1967 ) found that speakers do tend to look at listeners more during fluent speech than during hesitant speech . |
| 20 | The woman , from Heywood , near Rochdale , had stopped to look at directions in Farnworth near Manchester when the man struck at 5.40am on Saturday . |
| 21 | In any case the latter now had a substitute , very agreeable to Dinah ; the young man Nathan Holland who had come to read at Lamprey 's . |
| 22 | As he left the café he realised that he had forgotten to look at Elsie 's feet . |
| 23 | You do n't have to come too early only I 've got to go at quarter to seven . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | You 've got to stay at home and have children — men ca n't have them . |
| 26 | er to go right the way through to Venice and you 've got to stay at Venice for at least a couple of days so oh and it , er , I think er , you 're talking about two thousand at least just for that four days , you know ? |
| 27 | Swindon Town are through to the third round of the Coca Cola Cup after a nine-two aggregate win over Torquay … and tonight Oxford United will be trying to join them but they 've got to win at Aston Villa … |
| 28 | ‘ You 've got to look at evidence , that 's what you 've got to do ! ’ |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | ‘ But we 've got to look at ways of helping Graham Taylor . |