Example sentences of "[vb -s] [to-vb] at a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I think one wants to go at a time when people still want you to stay , rather than stay until people want you to go . |
| 2 | Our perception of the pub has to work at a number of levels — mostly obvious , but nonetheless worth clarifying . |
| 3 | Consequently there is a change in excitation and the motor starts to accelerate at a rate dictated by the load parameters . |
| 4 | This principle instructs the hearer not to construct a context any larger than he needs to arrive at an interpretation . |
| 5 | Software managers were said to be deciding which projects to kill at a Geneva meeting last week — one of those mentioned was the Network Application System . |
| 6 | There 's three players per team ( chosen before the match ) , but only one gets to play at a time ( plus a computer-controlled goalie ) . |
| 7 | Letting Swindon , Stoke and Honved score goals past them quite easily seems to point at a suspect defence . |
| 8 | In the very early stages the white hole appears to expand at a rate several times the speed of light , as I explain in an article written with R. C. Kapoor in Astrophysics and Space Sciences ( vol 53 , p 155 ) . |
| 9 | So , an ‘ epidemic ’ of heroin use occurs when incidence rises ( above the normal , endemic level of use ) and continues to rise at a rate higher than the outcidence rate . |
| 10 | Any time that a wing begins to drop at a stall it is the beginning of a possible spin , but the spin can only develop if the wing is kept stalled and the glider is allowed to continue to yaw . |
| 11 | He had come to question her in the manner of someone who comes to peer at a freak in a sideshow . |