Example sentences of "[prep] [noun prp] [to-vb] at [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Lord Jesus , thank you for a nice sleep , thank you for another day , please help us to do the kind of things that you want us to do , prayer for Christopher to behave at school , help him to do his best and for daddy at work , for Tim and I as we stay at home , help us to know the kind of things we do and this afternoon when grandma comes we 'll spare the time for her as well , Amen . |
| 2 | In 1928 an Indian graduate student , Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar , set sail for England to study at Cambridge with the British astronomer Sir Arthur Eddington , an expert on general relativity . |
| 3 | WHEN a headless body dramatically floated from the West of England to descend at Clapham by London amid a throng of witnesses and a pair of Cardinals , it was no miracle , no ghostly occurrence . |
| 4 | Havant take over the daunting task of challenging for the European Cup in Amsterdam , with Hounslow moving to the south of Holland to compete at Vught where a favourable draw puts them among the favourites to reach Monday 's final . |
| 5 | ‘ There is a written commitment for Derwent to stay at Consett . |
| 6 | Once he has completed the tour of personal appearances which will take him to Newcastle , Leeds , Birmingham , Manchester and Cardiff , Lewis will , as usual , retreat to the mountains in Pennsylvania to train at altitude , play chess for recreation and focus his mind on performing the not inconsiderable feat of silencing King through the removal of his client . |
| 7 | Graham Morris came over from Britain to work at Rover 's North American headquarters at the same time as the company launched its newest luxury car , the 827 . |
| 8 | From about 1909 he was a friend of ( Sir ) John Beazley [ q.v. ] , with whom he once combined to buy a Sienese picture they had discovered in a dealer 's ; and he often travelled in Italy to look at pictures , sometimes in the company of his friend Scholfield . |
| 9 | Harris , who was brought up in Wareham , Dorset , returned to the UK in April to speak at Amnesty 's AGM , and to a conference organised by the London School of Economics . |
| 10 | Awarded a free place at Birmingham University to study music for three years , Peter was short of basics like clothes and books until Elaine Blond gave him £30 and arranged for Peter to work at Bloomsbury House in his holidays to help make up any shortfall . |
| 11 | Rattigan will be responsible for ShowMe in Ireland , Sweden , Norway , Finland , Denmark , Belgium , Luxembourg and the Netherlands : he now wo n't be heading over to Moscow to work at Sun 's long-planned Commonwealth of Independent States operation . |
| 12 | Rattigan will be responsible for ShowMe in Ireland , Sweden , Norway , Finland , Denmark , Belgium , Luxembourg and the Netherlands : he now wo n't be heading over to Moscow to work at Sun 's long-planned Commonwealth of Independent States operation ( UX No 424 ) . |
| 13 | Shares in Acorn Computer Group Plc , which stood at 38 pence at the start of the year , put on 29 pence at 112 pence on the strength of its 46%-owned affiliate Advanced RISC Machines Ltd 's significant agreement with Texas Instruments Inc ( CI No 2,175 ) before settling back sixpence on Tuesday to close at 106p . |
| 14 | When he died , his widow moved to a property in Meath and Philip brought his young Irish wife back to Ireland to live at Riverstown . |
| 15 | He is leading a Kings Kids Christmas tour in Ayrshire but before that he is off to Albania to look at opportunities of taking a team there in Summer ‘ 93 . |
| 16 | Fishermen have sailed along the Thames in convoy to Westminster to protest at plans to cut the time they can spend at sea . |
| 17 | What I did n't realise was that her holiday started the day after she 'd had dinner with me , she was going to Italy to look at churches with her beloved son . |
| 18 | He later returned to Britain to work at Manchester airport , but 10 years of research by Professor Ivan Smith has drawn a blank about his present whereabouts . |
| 19 | Now now then Geoff we do n't go to Nottingham to look at trees we do n't go to Nottingham to look at the countryside we go to see the shops and spend money . |
| 20 | In the interim period , we moved to Kent to work at Hildenborough Hall . |
| 21 | The stale-mate might have continued had Louise not needed to go to Rome to look at apartments and make arrangements . |
| 22 | Elena Rudakov sat beside her husband , and on the back seat of the car , in plastic bags , was a new nightdress of flannelette and two shirts for Yuri to wear at home and two kilos of turnips from the open market and a small rug to go in front of the stove in their living-room . |
| 23 | The inter-governmental conference set up at Strasbourg to look at EMU will consider two main sets of proposals . |
| 24 | A Victorian hand painted pottery oil-lamp , without a shade , attracted some enthusiastic bidding at Bloomfields to sell at £510 . |
| 25 | Today you will travel through Utah to arrive at Bryce Canyon where you will be able to view the multi-coloured world of sandstone spires and pinnacles . |