Example sentences of "[verb] [noun pl] [to-vb] at [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You can buy weights to use at home . |
| 2 | If the object is to encourage mothers to stay at home , the use of child benefits would have been a superior policy . |
| 3 | Earning a very large salary , Laura was quite used to buying expensive clothes — primarily , of course , smart and severely cut suits to wear at work . |
| 4 | However , schools did not like students to feel at home in arts and science : a rigid division between the two prevailed : |
| 5 | John Bowlby 's theory of maternal deprivation , developed during World War II from the almost exclusive study of children completely separated from their families , proved additionally effective in persuading women to stay at home with their young children . |
| 6 | Time and again they seem to be reactions of weakness and fear , attempts to erect barricades to keep at bay the forces of the modern world . |
| 7 | A toy knife that lets out a scream when the blade is pressed-in , could encourage children to play at murder , according to Trading Standards officers . |
| 8 | SOME poorer people invite hijras to dance at family celebrations . |
| 9 | The girl has recovered from her wounds but is still taking tablets to sleep at night . |
| 10 | Other possible approaches that may come to the rescue include interactive video , expert systems ( a form of ‘ machine intelligence ’ ) , and the use by tutors of authoring systems to produce at speed specific , computer-based ‘ lessons ’ made up of text , graphics , and self-assessment questions . |
| 11 | Now I make enough money to pay others to help at home and queue for me . |
| 12 | Helping women to stay at home yet giving them an occupation , some money and a branch held out towards the wider community were all worthy goals in Laura 's eyes . |
| 13 | A research team at Birmingham University asked women to look at magazine pictures of catwalk beauties and then asked them to guess how wide the models were . |
| 14 | The sit-in , which forced lecturers to stay at home , was a protest at the lack of support for student accommodation and the pressure on the polytechnic system . |
| 15 | Life was not all work and no play for women any more than for men ; even if they had chores to do at home , the women compositors — who almost by definition young and/or unmarried — had the chance to escape duty for pleasure from time to time . |
| 16 | He had told them he had things to do at home , had saved up the day for solitude . |
| 17 | Adoption can be seen as the logical answer to infertility , but as Brebner et al ( 1985 ) point out , if medical investigations/treatment for infertility fail and are performed without adequate psychological support , the subsequent depression and disappointment can cause couples to jump at adoption without recognising those aspects of parenthood which are peculiar to adoptive parenthood , which include : having to be assessed and monitored ; absence of pregnancy and birth ; becoming attached to a child born to someone else ; having to tell the child he or she is adopted . |