Example sentences of "[to-vb] [noun sg] at the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | From the late 1620s onwards , a significant number of courtiers had begun to attend mass at the queen 's chapel and a steady stream of them subsequently became converts to Roman Catholicism . |
| 2 | Garvey , of Sandwell Avenue , Middlesbrough , is expecting to stand trial at the Crown Court for the alleged offence but magistrates decided neither case could go ahead after Garvey 's solicitor Jimmy Watson failed to appear . |
| 3 | Due to sudden and unexpected problems the last Q.T. day had to have a shortened and condensed programme and it was not possible to provide tea at the end of the day . |
| 4 | And she got about half a dozen of the strongest boys from standard one to stand guard at the door . |
| 5 | Are you allowed to transact business at the door Paul ? |
| 6 | Availability is the percentage of time for which the plant is mechanically capable of producing full rated output of electricity , whether or not such output was called for to meet demand at the time . |
| 7 | LITHUANIA 'S leader , Mr Algirdas Brazauskas , yesterday called for a united front to establish statehood at the opening of a crucial congress of the republic 's Communist Party . |
| 8 | In this view it is quite natural to find purposiveness at the level of the neurone or of the gene . |
| 9 | A duty to provide accommodation at the inn without prior contract to any traveller seeking accommodation . |
| 10 | As 30 per cent of YTS graduates fail to find employment at the end of their course it is crucial to understand which groups are able to use the YTS to gain a foothold in the labour market , and those which are unsuccessful . |
| 11 | If you happen to do a tour of the caddies ' pubs in Southport , Lancashire you are likely to stand shoulder-to-shoulder at the bar with four men who have carried the bags in no less than eleven British Open Championship victories . |
| 12 | FOR months now I have been trying to contain excitement at the thought of the compact disc . |
| 13 | We would like to see work at the accident blackspots ; junctions and blind bends where you ca n't see . |
| 14 | Freeze provides the ability to stop a session in order to obtain further input data/information or process a higher priority enquiry and then to re-commence session at the point of interrupt . |
| 15 | She turned to hurl abuse at the creature . |
| 16 | I do not think that people in Cornwall want to allocate blame at the moment , but they do want to ensure that the environmental clean-up is carried out both in the short term and the long term without hold-ups . |
| 17 | From Corran , it is possible to reach Kinlochhourn at the head of the loch by a footpath climbing around the steep hill rising behind . |
| 18 | In 1899 he extended his earlier theory to wave behaviour at the interface between two different types of rock . |
| 19 | Flooding Instructions , by Lothian Roadcare , have been issued to repairs being carried out to eliminate flooding at the Candy Box and to clean out drainage blocks in Baberton Avenue . |
| 20 | Flooding Instructions , by Lothian Roadcare , have been issued to repairs being carried out to eliminate flooding at the Candy Box and to clean out drainage blocks in Baberton Avenue . |
| 21 | Alan 's trip to America 16 years ago was to receive treatment at the Institute of Human Potential in Philadelphia . |
| 22 | The contract was secured against keen competition from other UK fire engineering companies due to WGFP 's close attention to design detail at the proposal stage and the development of a procurement and assembly plan to meet John Brown 's fast track site programme . |
| 23 | I 'm at the moment chairing a university working party on sexual harassment erm and what this working party erm intends to do is to try to survey experience gathered from the operation of codes and the appointment of people in college with a special responsibility for this sort of thing over the past few years , to see what we can learn from experience , so I 'd want to reserve judgement at the moment on what this committee might recommend is the best way forwards . |
| 24 | I like this very much as an easy summer skirt — three pieces knitted right across your machine , hooked back on to fewer stitches for a small yoke to avoid bulk at the waist — equally becoming to the very slender or larger lady . |
| 25 | LINDA McCartney , wife of former Beatle Paul McCartney , has written to Australian Prime Minister Paul Keating to express disgust at the premier 's investment in a pig farm . |
| 26 | Yeah , he could n't be bothered to play rugby at the beginning , I mean nobody missed about four weeks . |
| 27 | We write to express astonishment at the standard of writing that has featured in much of your pre-election coverage . |
| 28 | Having observed his or her own former situation by means of regression , the patent will then during the course of a counselling session have the opportunity to discuss what happened ( something that may never have been done before ) , to express anger at the perpetrator and possibly at others who may have guessed what was going on but perhaps did nothing to prevent it , and to understand that he or she was in no way to blame for what occurred . |
| 29 | By November of the year 655 or 656 — Bede gives 655 ( HE 111 , 24 ) but again this date may need to be emended in the same way as Bede 's other Northumbrian dates ( see Appendix , Fig. 7.3 ) — Penda was able to challenge Oswiu at the battle of the Winwaed with a mighty coalition , for he had spent the intervening thirteen years consolidating his position . |
| 30 | Given this , Whitelocke was lucky to escape prosecution at the Restoration ; to the credit of both , he and Charles II made their peace when Whitelocke returned some royal manuscripts that he had saved from plunder and lectured the king about Welsh , which he said was ‘ his Majesty 's more ancient native language than English ’ . |