Example sentences of "[n mass] [verb] [adv] at [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There were few elderly people in the congregation as people moved away at retirement , so they lost only two through death . |
| 2 | The proportion of young people staying on at school between the crucial ages of 16 and 19 has always been heavily weighted towards the upper classes . |
| 3 | We need to see more of our young people staying on at school , more of them going into further and higher education and more of them achieving qualifications . |
| 4 | America and the Pacific Rim countries have 80–90 per cent of their young people staying on at school beyond 16 . |
| 5 | Publicity was directed to persuading people to switch off at peak times , and some Boards , notably the Eastern , banned sales of space heaters at their showrooms . |
| 6 | Pubs are , to quote Ben Davis , ‘ the public buildings in which people feel most at home ’ , and in its truest sense the public house is exactly what it says — a house for the public . |
| 7 | People stay in at night to avoid the shadows of the city streets . |
| 8 | Rose reported in 1953 that 79 per cent of a sample of unemployed older men in Hull knew ‘ that the country was asking people to stay on at work after retiring age ’ and 74 per cent of them thought this a ‘ reasonable thing ’ ( Rose 1953 ) . |
| 9 | There 's been an increasing tendency for people to stay on at school because they really want to , where it was one of the great criticisms of the boom years that people simply stayed on the escalator regardless , did n't think whether they wanted to stay on to , into sixth form , did n't think whether they wanted to go on to university or higher education , erm just did it without thinking . |
| 10 | The classic occasion when problems appear is when people move home at retirement then have to think again . |
| 11 | ‘ I know it may disturb many people sitting conmfortably at home . |
| 12 | It is somewhat unrealistic to imagine people gnawing away at sugar cane or sugar beet , so as an example at the opposite extreme let us consider apples . |
| 13 | Then one day , the TDs stayed late at the Dáil — in England you would say ‘ MPs stayed late at Parliament ’ — and sneaked in a bill about angling licences on the Lough . |
| 14 | I want to get the now constantly recurring image or memory of the scraggy sheep huddled together at night in the bus shelter off the top of my mind : it is disconcerting to be writing about one thing and yet be presented while doing so with quite another set of pictures . |