Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [to-vb] at [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We buy theatre tickets and have the restaurant booked when , if we stopped and checked what we actually wanted to do , we might find we would much prefer to stay at home and have an early night . ’ |
| 2 | Mr Gaviria has sensibly decided to operate at arm 's length , seeking influence through private meetings with all sides . |
| 3 | You 've only got to look at history … slavery which led into colonialism which developed into full-blown imperialism , right on up to the present-day immigration policies . |
| 4 | Tough , fit , not in the least prone to injury and highly consistent in his performances , Cross was the epitome of the ideal player , and he was versatile too , in a time when this was not really expected of a footballer , for he moved across to right-back after the signing of Scotsman Bobby Orr , who much preferred to play at number three , in 1927 . |
| 5 | I mean , you only have to look at top of that cupboard , and it were do n't yesterday . |
| 6 | But we can see the horror now , we only need to look at television and Yugoslavia . |
| 7 | Yet it is in precisely this sort of situation that a woman who has hitherto chosen to stay at home with her children may need to seek work . |
| 8 | And I just want to look at capital deployment here . |
| 9 | Well you 've just got to look at section twenty eight , now section twenty five , how like we are being discriminated against how even like |
| 10 | Get your appetite where you can , just remember to eat at home . ’ |
| 11 | William was excommunicated in 1619 and Jacob in 1634 , although he had already refused to kneel at communion in 1627 . |
| 12 | I just had to stay at home for a bit . |
| 13 | ‘ It was important to come back after Saturday , and we always want to win at home . |
| 14 | I always stop to look at death . |
| 15 | He was quickly invited to play at court , where he delighted the king by playing at sight pieces by J C Bach , Abel , and ( George III 's favourite ) Handel ; playing brilliantly on the organ ; accompanying Queen Charlotte in an aria ; and improvising a melody over a Handelian bass . |
| 16 | And what is more , I might never ever have to look at German again except on a menu in a restaurant on the Rhine where we might go , like other people do , for a real holiday instead of borrowing mildewed cottages and cardboard holiday-houses from people to whom we than have to be disproportionately grateful . |
| 17 | NIREX still hopes to dispose at sea of the massive quantities of contaminate rubble and components that will be produced when Britain 's first nuclear power stations are demolished . |
| 18 | The French also like to stay at home and prefer to take their leisure in their own country . |
| 19 | ‘ She is also learning to swim at school which before was impossible . |
| 20 | Suddenly it is glamorous to appear nice and normal , and those who used to want to run the boardroom or run away to Paris now want to stay at home and watch programmes like Roseanne and Kate And Allie — new cult programmes that offer a cosy and entirely spurious view of family life . |
| 21 | And it was mentioned by the member of motion twenty three , they 're actually now starting to look at membership of a trade union being illegal . |
| 22 | Physics and physical science students had a strong sense of the hierarchy of different disciplines ; Debbie , for example , described business studies ( which she had originally hoped to study at university ) as a ‘ soft option ’ ; a first-year physics student at A described astro-physics ( a course also run by the department ) as ‘ watered-down physics ’ . |
| 23 | At the same time , the new accent on ‘ community care ’ means that elderly people and disabled children who have reached a certain level of dependency and inability to cope — and who would once have gone into hospital or residential care — are now encouraged to remain at home . |
| 24 | In order to arrive off difficult coastlines in daylight we often had to sail at night from the Outer Isles . |
| 25 | Couple 1 — A part-time teacher and a businessman who often need to entertain at home . |
| 26 | However , we would expect the effect of terminal education age to differ among people of different generations : 16 was the minimum school-leaving age for sample members aged 28 or less , whereas any respondents aged 80 or older did not even have to stay at school till they were 14 . |
| 27 | For twenty-five years Britain took little interest in the outside world and even managed to remain at peace with France . |
| 28 | But a European middle manager in his middle 30s , with a safe job in the engineering sector in his own country , and on the fast track for promotion , would generally have been well advised to stay at home . |
| 29 | People who fail the Church are sometimes made to appear at morning service ‘ as they were first made before God ’ , which these days usually means in their underclothes . |
| 30 | Thousands of commuters once again decided to stay at home rather than try to beat the rail strike . |