Example sentences of "[noun sg] [coord] [verb] at [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But you can find out a great deal on your initial farm walk , and much more in the weeks and months before you sign a contract or bid at auction . |
| 2 | You could backpack the route or stay at youth hostels as there are plenty nearby — Coniston , Elterwater , Longthwaite , Derwent Water , Keswick , Carnock Fell and Carlisle . |
| 3 | But in poor families , many youngsters spend Saturdays earning money or helping at home , which prevents them attending such classes . |
| 4 | There had been no buying or selling at Seamer for very many years , but in 1987 hundreds of gypsies arrived with the intention of reviving the horse trading which used to take place . |
| 5 | A total of seven mineshafts were located along the route and were either consolidated by grout injection or capped at rockhead . |
| 6 | His itinerary will include a talk and reading at Poetry Live in Middlesbrough , workshops in Berwick and Hexham , readings in Newcastle and Darlington , and talks to pupils in schools at Darlington , Hexham and Bishop Auckland . |
| 7 | The BRC squad includes Rodney Wilson and David Webb who both learnt their rowing at Methodist College and continued at Queen 's before moving up to BRC . |
| 8 | Well I had learnt shorthand and typing at school but erm the money was necessary at home you see , and er with my sister working there , at H and T Hornes , er she spoke for me and er I had an interview and and they put me up in the nursery , we used to call it the nursery see because we were all fourteens up there and er then they called it the cylinder shop and er my foreman was a fella name Archie and erm everything was very very strict indeed , we could not move away from our board you could n't speak to the next one that was working by you , and er there was a fella named Mr and he was he , I did n't work for him I worked for Mr , but some you cou you were afraid to move because of this man and he he he 'd stare at you and he 'd look at you and anyway erm they put me assembling and it was very interesting indeed , there was a tall stand on , we called it the bench , a tall stand with a screw on the top and then to as begin to assemble the locks you had to take what we would call the body , screw it into the er little on the stand and then we had tweezers , there were , in the body there were five springs and then you had to have five breast pins and when you got the springs in you .. we have to have a plug at the back so as we could put each pin and push the plug over that a dummy plug we called it and so that was five pins were in and then there was a ball er when that , when we came to put it in our vice , we had to put the V I C E not V O voice . |
| 9 | A wool dress sculpted her slender figure and ended at mid-thigh . |
| 10 | As such they might be graded in height to match variations in status , just as they still are in respect of sovereign and consort at state openings of the British Parliament . |
| 11 | As they approached , Schellenberg pulled Devlin to one side and stood at attention . |
| 12 | American Nigel Calder is the author of several books on boat maintenance and repairs at sea . |
| 13 | High-tech raids Davy Jones 's locker and sells at auction |
| 14 | So I decided not to go to the Literary Club but to stay at home . |
| 15 | And yet if you want properly to hear a Prom there is often little alternative but to stay at home with the radio transmission , so wretched are the acoustics in large areas of the Royal Albert Hall . |
| 16 | The islanders are industrious ; they are either out at work or working at home . |
| 17 | This can be accommodated by providing a pointer or note at PS indicating that it is in fact PI . |
| 18 | Thus while anyone in the world , with normal physical resources , can watch dance or look at sculpture or listen to music , still some forty per cent of the world 's present inhabitants can make no contact whatever with a piece of writing , and in earlier periods this percentage was very much larger . |
| 19 | Influenza B impaired performance of the simple reaction time task by about 20–40% , which is comparable to the 5–10% deterioration seen with alcohol consumption or work at night . |
| 20 | Peter immediately replied , ‘ I would like Susie to give up work and stay at home , so that I can be sure that she is not cheating on me and not planning to leave . ’ |
| 21 | Dexter liked the picture editor and felt at ease with him . |
| 22 | Move the magnified area up by holding down the mouse button on the up arrow and stop at row 39 . |
| 23 | ( b ) Adjust the illumination and restart at Option 1 to recalculate the blackout and whiteout points , or Option 4 to retain the previous values and merely recalculate the ‘ best ’ exposure . |
| 24 | Sound-proofed and travelling at speed , we can enjoy every moment of it , without risking offence or ridicule . |
| 25 | So that 's the first rule of good negotiating : learn to master the art of listening and to feel at home with silence . |
| 26 | All red wine and vintage port would have been decanted ; port as early as possible on the day it was to be drunk ; claret two or three hours before drinking and kept at room temperature without a stopper in order to let it ‘ breathe ’ . |
| 27 | Ted returned to the fray after a scoreless first half and played at outside-right . |
| 28 | Forget fantasy and look at fact . |
| 29 | Even minor amendments of the kind introduced under Quirk and Kermode at University College in the period when Hardy was writing this account generated misgivings in the other London colleges . |
| 30 | Otherwise , we might as well all stay at home and stare at computer terminals . |