Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] [to-vb] at [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Alcohol misuse is more likely to come to light via marital disputes , repeated driving offences , accidents , absenteeism and progressive inability to cope at work . |
| 2 | It was normal practice to live at home with one 's parents until marriage ( and women who did not marry usually continued to live with parents , often supporting them into old age , see below ) . |
| 3 | Reading manager Mark McGhee , who is with his prodigy in Monte Carlo , insisted yesterday that Lambert is not for sale and would be offered an improved contract to stay at Elm Park . |
| 4 | And I 'll keep the old monitor to use at home with my notebook . |
| 5 | Billed as the most important sale of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century French silver to appear at auction for twenty years , the results of Sotheby 's sale of the Jourdan-Barry collection were not outstanding . |
| 6 | This is the most significant collection of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century French silver to appear at auction in twenty years . |
| 7 | David Beaton poulticed it every time he could get the old man to stay at peace long enough , but as soon as it started to heal Eachuinn would be up and about , restless , until the deep puncture festered and broke out again . |
| 8 | The fact that we find fewer performance errors after scene six , coupled with a lesser tendency to talk at length , suggests that he has been shocked out of his absent-mindedness and emerges , at least for the rest of the play 's duration , as a more direct speaker . |
| 9 | There are dozens of ways you can fire the shutter , which is pressure sensitive to the finger in normal application ; but it is not always easy to arrange a mechanical device to operate at distance . |
| 10 | And if you make the conscious decision to stay at home then |
| 11 | For such old people one has to ask whether acceptance of their professed wish to stay at home carries with it a responsibility to protect them from the consequences of their infirmity . |
| 12 | The answer is ‘ yes ’ , so this is a good opportunity to look at colour mutations — what causes them , how they affect the fish , and how they affect us as fishkeepers . |
| 13 | Eventually teachers were able to shake themselves free of the legal requirement to supervise at lunchtime , though the responsibility tor the good management of the school during the break still remains with the headteacher . |
| 14 | Er they probably would go back to , to work then , but it was usual for a married mother to stop at home . |
| 15 | The most important thing to note at present is that any strong syllable will have as its peak one of the vowel phonemes ( or possibly a triphthong ) listed in Chapter 3 , but not . |
| 16 | It is the work that is the most important thing to learn at school , with arithmetic being favoured by a three-to-one margin over being good . |
| 17 | For the ultimate freedom to explore at leisure Citalia gives you the choice of a motoring holiday . |
| 18 | ‘ So , for instance , you may install Windows in the office , and if you want a compatible spreadsheet to use at home , you can install the DOS version there , provided that only one is used at a time . ’ |
| 19 | Over the last year ACET 's centres in Dundee , Edinburgh and Glasgow have been asked to care for a growing number needing practical help to stay at home . |
| 20 | Led by Jimmy Cook , Transvaal take the field at Lord 's on July 19 , becoming the first South African team to play at cricket 's headquarters since 1965 |
| 21 | On the other hand , fear of the unknown , shame at admitting that relatives have harmed them , and fear of retribution may create a kind of mental and emotional paralysis which is not the same as a positive wish to stay at home . |
| 22 | It is an excellent way to exercise at home for general fitness and as a preparation for skiing . |