Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] to [noun sg] at " in BNC.
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| 1 | Few Yek were happy at sea , and a ship-borne invasion of Y'frike years earlier had come close to failure at one point because the reinforcements delivered to its shores had been so weakened by the effects of their voyage . |
| 2 | They are each used here to gesture at a range of philosophical positions . |
| 3 | She was not looking forward to life at her uncle 's house . |
| 4 | One advantage of Chinese celebrations is that they do not linger on , as everyone knocks off and goes home to bed at about 9 p.m . |
| 5 | It looked surprised for a moment , and then toppled over and shattered into gravel ( trolls being silicaceous lifeforms , their bodies reverted instantly to stone at the moment of death ) . |
| 6 | PERHAPS we are the only definable group , except for the landladies , who look forward to conference at all , conference and elections being the only points in the calendar when our lives become primed with meaning . |
| 7 | Do you react badly to criticism at work ? |
| 8 | He spent much of his childhood in China but returned home to school at Marlborough . |
| 9 | Type I disease responds well to treatment at the standard dosage rates with any of the modern benzimidazoles ( albendazole , fenbendazole or oxfendazole ) , the pro-benzimidazoles ( febantel and thiophanate ) , levamisole , or ivermectin . |
| 10 | Yet , whenever she contemplated a resumption of the life she had enjoyed before her initial meeting with Johnny , she felt a rising panic and a disinclination amounting almost to hostility at the very idea . |
| 11 | Jane found solace in the humour and support of the local people : Davyd , Meryvn , the clever Henry , aged sixty-eight but very spry , who had run away to sea at fifteen , and did everything so well and systematically — shipshape , in fact . |
| 12 | Claire Patterson , now at the BBC , did Right to Reply at Channel 4 . |
| 13 | There was a need for vigilance of the type in which Collins specialises , since the Germans had restarted the match apparently intent on finishing it as a contest in time for the largely youthful audience at Ibrox to get home to bed at a respectable hour . |
| 14 | He had to come home in the ambulance , and had a bed downstairs for the daytime , but managed to go upstairs to bed at night . |
| 15 | He ran away to sea at fifteen and made a name for himself as a good , but sadistic , fist fighter . |