Example sentences of "[vb past] [to-vb] [adv prt] at [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At a wall corner I stopped to look back at Thwaite 's collection of stone houses shimmering in the dale . |
| 2 | some of them forgot to come back at night . |
| 3 | With a crack regiment drawn from the other end of his line , de Bazelaire decided to throw in at dawn on the 8th one of those swift counter-attacks . |
| 4 | Yuletide and Twelfth Night passed with only the occasional carols in church , for no one dared to go out at night . |
| 5 | Many forms had days when lessons finished at midday , and study had to go on at home . |
| 6 | I had to get up at quarter to seven this morning . |
| 7 | She always had to stay in at lunchtime . |
| 8 | Oh I was playing up and they chucked me out the class or something and I had to stay in at dinner time . |
| 9 | He refused to go out at night . |
| 10 | It concluded that the best graduates in these subjects tended to stay on at university rather than go into industry or teaching . |
| 11 | ‘ And he 'd be less under you feet , dear , when you wanted to get on at home , ’ said Doris with a twinkle in her eye . |
| 12 | In 1973 , the CEE was introduced as an experiment to meet the needs of the ‘ new sixth ’ , that is , 17-year-olds who , under the comprehensive system , wanted to stay on at school for another year but not to take A levels . |