Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] [to-vb] at [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In some of the comments which follow , we can see that students are discussing more than a subject which they happened to choose to study at college : they are discussing issues which are central to their lives . |
| 2 | Arthur Pridmore , when he did condescend to talk at breakfast , talked with the magisterial authority of head of his family , Mr. Bowlem 's bailiff and People 's warden at the village church . |
| 3 | The preceding age of English literature , after all , between the two world wars , had been notably un-British : its finest poets an American called T. S. Eliot and an Irishman called W. B. Yeats , its greatest novelists — Bloomsbury apart — James Joyce and a handful of Americans who , for the most part , had preferred to stay at home . |
| 4 | Soon they were laughing over the melodrama of it ; how quickly he had seemed to arrive at death 's door , and how absurdly soon afterwards he was stuffing his face and bouncing with health . |
| 5 | The central point of the book is a reflection of a non-technical ‘ wider ecumenism ’ , ‘ a juxtapositioning of mental shapes or ideas through which the poet had learned to look at life , his own and that reflected by others . ’ |
| 6 | Liz had continued to live at home with her parents , but she was now thinking about going to stay with her brother and his wife for a few weeks . |
| 7 | ‘ Many who had planned to stay at home will now go away , others will feel they can afford a second holiday . ’ |
| 8 | I had grown more and more tired , energy seeped away and I had begun to sweat at night . |
| 9 | The name is supposed to come from their usage as cool stores for butter that farmers travelling the pass had failed to sell at market . |