Example sentences of "[verb] to [noun sg] at [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ If Britain is going to produce a Wimbledon Champion it is vital that young school children are continually attracted to tennis at an early age , ’ said Durie . |
| 2 | I report to H.Q at the appointed time . |
| 3 | These deflationary policies of various governments added to unemployment at a time when Britain 's foreign trade was depressed . |
| 4 | Numberless are the ministers who have come to grief at the height of their peroration as a child has let out a deep sigh , articulating the inner feelings of some and distracting into amusement the rest of the congregation who were listening . |
| 5 | This is often far from the case and many a combination has come to grief at the very last fence . |
| 6 | Did you say something about Mr Boulez perhaps returning to work at the opera ? |
| 7 | Social contact between E17 and other patients was confined to attendance at the fitness class . |
| 8 | When the Institute 's working party on openness reported to Council at the beginning of the year ( see ACCOUNTANCY , February , p 13 ) , it endorsed the idea of letting the sunshine in on some of the Institute 's important but less controversial public interest functions . |
| 9 | Both logistically and procedurally it would be impossible for all four cases to be pursued to trial at the same time , and it was therefore natural for the Barclays ( Asia ) and West L.B. matters to be placed in relative suspense , whilst attention was concentrated on Carrian and B.M.F.L. |
| 10 | [ 23 ] , on the stability of structures containing mutagenic lesions , highlight thermodynamic parameters for the coil-helix transition in the set of dodecamer duplexes d(CGCXAATTYGCG) 2 , where X and Y bases are paired to give the Watson-Crick G-C and A-T pairs , but also the m6 G-C pair ( where m6 G corresponds to methylation at the purine O6 ) , and G-T and m6 G-T mismatched pairs . |
| 11 | A BRITISH businessman has been charged with murder in Thailand after his partner was stabbed to death at a beach resort . |
| 12 | A fresh appeal 's been made for witnesses to the murder of teenager who was stabbed to death at a social services office . |
| 13 | Four-times-wed Carol Whittington , 45 , was found stabbed to death at the home of her third husband , Peter Sayles , 39 . |
| 14 | The budget for 1991 , presented to Congress at the end of January , envisaged a 5 per cent decrease in expenditure and a reduction in the public-sector deficit to the equivalent of 2.8 per cent of the gross national product . |
| 15 | Tunisian sources revealed on April 5 that Hamzah Abu Zayd , the Palestinian who assassinated Abu Iyad and two other PLO leaders in mid-January [ see pp. 37975-76 ] , had recently been sentenced to death at a Palestinian military tribunal in Yemen . |
| 16 | According to evidence at a murder trial , the police found the weapon when they freed the alleged murderer so they could keep him under secret surveillance . |
| 17 | With a little imagination we can see our village bowmen , after a day on the butts retiring as many later sportsmen have done to refreshment at the Five Bells to talk over their prowess with the bow . |
| 18 | A child who came to school at the age of five dirty and smelling of urine would never be able to benefit from the experience of school if , as a consequence , she were shunned and rejected by her classmates . |
| 19 | It does indeed seem that the taboo on wives working was still operating among the generation that came to maturity at the time of the Great War . |
| 20 | A long-term government plan came to fruition at the beginning of 1990 when it was announced that Taiwan was to apply to accede to the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade ( GATT ) . |
| 21 | The Wootton and Widgery proposals came to hand at the right time ; there were pressures from bodies such as the Magistrates ' Association and the Justices ' Clerks ; while the prospect of legislation prompted a clearing out of the pigeon holes of Whitehall . |
| 22 | Rhoda said when she came to tea at the weekend , ‘ You only remember what you want to remember , Ken ; serve you right . |
| 23 | Niven came to grief at the eighth fence on Flight Hill and had his left arm in a sling when he left the course by ambulance . |
| 24 | The leaderboard keeps track of the games played and scores which can be saved to disk at the end of each game . |
| 25 | Dismay turned to shell-shock at the increasingly desperate struggle to stay in contact with the rock , culminating in a pure faith-in-grass tug as holds ran out completely . |
| 26 | Are you going to bonfire at the weekend ? |
| 27 | Compared with a lettuce , for example , our rose roots are going to work at a lower level , and at planting time are going to have to work and make fresh growth ( become established ) in that second spit region . |
| 28 | And so you 're going to work at the things that will get you in there are n't you ? |
| 29 | Marcia Fleat , 39 , was going to work at an old folk 's home when her Vauxhall was hit as it pulled out of a junction . |
| 30 | She was so surprised by the warmth of his smile , by his being able to smile so frankly , so like a friend , that when he said he was going to lunch at the Blue Lagoon and would she come too , she said yes , all right , without thinking . |