Example sentences of "[noun pl] [verb] [verb] at [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Their excuse — not that lame — is that they frequently have to cater for up to 80,000 , mainly male , football fans wanting to go at half-time . |
| 2 | He said the EC guidelines included looking at design and layout of offices , eyesight tests , rest facilities for pregnant women and separate rest areas for smokers and non-smokers . |
| 3 | I du n no , er you know you can put woman staying at home having the child for instance when there are n't enough children to fill the schools realize that having children is a very important in economic values what with nations increasing staying at home |
| 4 | Buses have to drop off passengers in the middle of the road because cars had parked at bus stops . |
| 5 | The general pattern of pausing in this experiment proved to be very similar to that found in the earlier experiment ; subjects tended to pause at clause boundaries . |
| 6 | Southerners tend to drink at home . |
| 7 | In particular , for reasons that will be taken up below , the Nottinghamshire miners decided to remain at work . |
| 8 | RAIL commuters have protested at timetable changes they claim will leave them with a long wait or walk . |
| 9 | Western economists tend to talk at length about theory ; the easterners are mainly interested in practice . |
| 10 | If we take the research on goals plus the experience of practitioners in the selection business we will find a high degree of consensus about the more frequently cited goals that individuals attempt to satisfy at work . |
| 11 | For myself , I 'm not fussy , though the dogs do bark at night , do n't they ? |
| 12 | Scurrilous newspaper allegations over the years have hinted at blackmail , involving an unsavoury incident in the Walborough shower , forged Sheffield Wednesday rosettes and a second-hand Ford Popular Reg sold to Ken Mentle in 1954 . |
| 13 | Likewise , economists have discussed at length technical aspects of economic policy , particularly macroeconomic policy . |
| 14 | The artists began to hint at change ; Japanese prints were re-educating the European eye and African masks attracted the attention of the sculptor and painter . |
| 15 | Dumping at sea : New powers governing dumping at sea will give Britain the widest controls in Europe . |
| 16 | After 600 yds keep left at fork ( signposted ) and , where track ends , maintain direction alongside hedge on left to reach gate and footbridge , beyond which turn right ( waymarked ) , very soon alongside ditch on right , then after 300 yds turn left on signposted grassy track . |
| 17 | It is particularly attractive to firms with strong institutional placing power ; retail firms prefer to sell at issue price , retaining full fees as profit , rather than selling at the lower fixed reoffer price set by the lead manager . |
| 18 | Epidemiological studies have consistently pointed to the health hazards associated with smoking , but most studies have looked at health risks amongst those who are middle aged . |
| 19 | Rangers failed to win at home again this week . |
| 20 | Their ways had diverged at university — Angela Morgan had gone on to Oxford to read English , the fatherless Francesca , under more pressure to make a living , had gone to Cambridge to read law . |
| 21 | SMOKING has become the main health concern of companies , with a sharp rise in the number introducing policies to control smoking at work , a conference on the issue was told yesterday . |
| 22 | So you 've got twenty nine students in the class and fifteen want to go to Whitby , and eight want to go to Scarborough , and three little piggies want to stay at home . |
| 23 | Yesterday , the former cabinet members promised to campaign at party meetings across Scotland to try to overturn the motion supporting the MPs ' actions , at the party 's next national council in June . |
| 24 | In some areas and in some social groups , children continue to live at home until they marry . |
| 25 | The government is currently considering building facilities for processing liquid radioactive waste and other measures to end dumping at sea by 1995 . |
| 26 | John 's pupils continued to train at Lime Grove . |
| 27 | Party officials attributed this to antipathy to the " open ballot " system in which voters had to queue at polling booths behind the poster of their chosen candidate and were publicly counted . |
| 28 | So the problem is , if your child wants to go , if one of our children wanted to go at midnight , I 'm fairly sure that everybody in this Council Chamber would have quite a reasonable way of er of retaining that child in the home but of course we 've all heard the stories of what happens when the unruly children in the children 's homes want to go out at midnight and I do think we we have a problem because with the report and the new legislation , we 're in the situation where there 's plenty of advice for us as to what to do , what not to do should I say , we ca n't we ca n't use pindown , you ca n't shut them in a room , you ca n't physically restrain them , so how does one of the workers in the home stop them from going out ? |
| 29 | Indeed , some differentiation will derive directly from the stage children have reached at school : for example , the ‘ adult needs ’ view is more relevant to the later years of compulsory schooling than to the primary years . |
| 30 | £40,000 tickets fiddle suspected at club |