Example sentences of "[vb past] [to-vb] [adv] at [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I learnt to sit formally at table and to eat three inedible courses of stodge with an incomprehensible array of surplus cutlery ; to whisper when I spoke as I was considered ‘ too loud ’ ; and to stop gesturing with my hands or to touch in conversation , as people inevitably shrank away from me . |
| 2 | He seemed to do better at Arse and had a good season when we won the league . |
| 3 | It always seemed to rain more at night . |
| 4 | So , just before his seventeenth birthday , a thin , gangly boy , but ( as Lionel Luyt remarked ) completely unselfconscious , with a nose still red from his operation , John Cranko began to work full-time at ballet . |
| 5 | The mothers and children were out of sight now , reduced to no more than faint yelps from among the council houses built on rising ground above the green , and there was no-one else about , and would not be , until the men began to come home at dusk . |
| 6 | Mum began to look more at ease . |
| 7 | When the subject of education was brought up and it was pointed out that the girl had not been going to school he said that she was not learning anything at school anyway , that she was much safer here than at the school she had been to , where she had been threatened with knives in the playground and that she could learn all a wife needed to know better at home . |
| 8 | At the beginning of 1991 , we decided to look again at Cost of Quality and how it was being used in C&P . |
| 9 | He liked to work away at Latin or Greek , or to pick books of history or biography off the shelves . |
| 10 | It 's been difficult in = thing that you had to go home at night and keep watering like , your not doing anything else but watering , watering |
| 11 | Tom himself said it was because he had to work hard at school at subjects other than music , he could not devote himself wholeheartedly to the flute . |