Example sentences of "[noun pl] [to-vb] [adv] at [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Dot Opened her eyes to glance sideways at Mrs Hollidaye but she was still in the same position , kneeling , so Dot lowered her lids and , though she had n't meant to she found herself thinking about Gloria , still asleep in that high bed with the soft eiderdown . |
| 2 | Millwall manager Mick McCarthy admitted : ‘ I did advise the lads to cool down at half-time because I did n't want anyone sent off . |
| 3 | Sportsmen , no less than other black kids , are the recipients of pressure from both parents to do well at school . |
| 4 | And washing up , morn , noon and neet , And bowls to scald , and milk to fleet , And bairns to fetch again at neet ! |
| 5 | The treaty was not , predictably , adopted by the member states but it encouraged the governments to look again at reform . |
| 6 | A general tradition in a neighbourhood that children leave school as soon as possible affects the decision of individuals to stay on at school beyond the compulsory school leaving age ; and so on . |
| 7 | Lilley said they had no plans to do so at present , but everything would be looked at in the review . |
| 8 | " Yes , if you allow conditions to continue as at present you will find a deliberate attempt is being made to assassinate the Conservative Party . " |
| 9 | That might encourage more young Britons to stay on at school in their quest for a good job . |
| 10 | ‘ He is not one of those who is at his desk at dawn and leaves late clutching another three files to work on at home , ’ one said . |
| 11 | But prison officers say their procedures to pick up at risk prisoners were followed . |
| 12 | Looking for a plausible mechanism is slightly easier , but the search has only just begun , and there are few clues to go on at present . |
| 13 | Andy Cowle of the Keltic Bookshop , London , advises smaller ELT publishers to look again at Germany . |
| 14 | Craig Deans , 21 , a rigger from Elgin , was one of the first oilmen to arrive back at Aberdeen Airport . |
| 15 | And it goes and when it goes off you have ten seconds to get up at night then |
| 16 | He laughed loudly at things that were n't funny and littered his English with expletives to appear more at home in the language . |
| 17 | For example , in a case — Sex slur drove man to lash out at bully who mocked him : Killer stepson 's years of torment — where a bullying stepfather was killed by the stepson he had tormented for years , one of the taunts mentioned was the mocking of his desires to get on at college , calling him a ‘ funny boy ’ . |