Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] [pron] [adv prt] at [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Perhaps Jackson has turned something up at the hospital . |
| 2 | He chased them in Australia last year , tried to hunt them down at the Arms Park in the World Cup , but found himself on the end of the heaviest Welsh defeats home and away . |
| 3 | Kersey called after him : ‘ Shaw has fixed us up at the hotel on the prom — is that all right ? ’ |
| 4 | Codron tried to get it on at the Royal Court — on the face of things , an ideal setting-but it was turned down there , too . |
| 5 | If these two signals differ significantly in level , you will need to balance them up at the mixer before passing them on to the camcorder . |
| 6 | And despite their reservations over his image — indeed his whole lifestyle — he can expect total support from the archly-conservative US Tour when he has dried himself out at the Hazelton Clinic , near Minneapolis . |
| 7 | We agreed to set it up at the last meeting . |
| 8 | Once when I was leaving for Europe , he came to see me off at the airport , bringing a parting gift . |
| 9 | He says well I , we were on about sort of and he says bring it up at the next meeting , I says |
| 10 | I 'm just going to drop her off at the hall . |
| 11 | ‘ Believe it or not , my responsibility to my daughter rated higher in my mind than going to seek you out at the hotel . ’ |
| 12 | I think he 's at the bottom of a bog with a hole in his head and they 're waiting to scoop her up at the right moment . |
| 13 | Sam had volunteered to pick me up at the hospital . |
| 14 | If the air-flow at a valve is downwards , it will open to admit it ; if upwards , it will close to entrap it and if it is horizontal from any direction the flap will tilt to allow it through at an angle , gaining aerofoil-type lift from it . |
| 15 | Having booked herself in at a hotel where she was well known , she returned to the hospital and sat with her daughter throughout most of the evening . |
| 16 | She decided to play them out at the game they had chosen . |
| 17 | If I 'd told them a tale like that then they would have had me down at the station before I could blink ! ’ |
| 18 | There were seven of us sharing the place , the Carters ' eldest son and his girlfriend having invited themselves along at the last moment , and their movements were completely unpredictable . |
| 19 | Now Dad can have an identical jumper to his son without having to roll it up at the bottom or trying to fit two arms into three sleeves . |
| 20 | Now Dad can have an identical jumper to his son without having to roll it up at the bottom or trying to fit two arms into three sleeves . |
| 21 | ‘ Aye , where else ? ’ she said as she , too , rose from the settle and returned to the couch , from where she watched him go to the box that was standing on the end of the sideboard , and from it take a piece of silver , then button his coat across his broad chest , take his cap from his pocket and , having put it on at an angle , salute her , saying , ‘ Your servant , madam . ’ |
| 22 | Rather they preferred to farm them out at a fixed rent , at leases which , in the fourteenth century , became progressively longer , and to enjoy the freedom to take up offices or to serve in the army . |
| 23 | He asked the taxi he had taken to put him down at the top of the drift and he had walked to the house . |
| 24 | They 're not really allowed to make it down at the farm . |
| 25 | ‘ I 'm afraid I 've plunged you in at the deep end . |
| 26 | She marvelled even more though when Cara 's basic efficiency surfaced as she declared , ‘ By my calculations you 'll still have time to get down to Dover after you 've dropped me off at the airport . ’ |
| 27 | He had said hardly anything since we had picked him up at a draughty street corner where the Hanko road leaves Helsinki . |
| 28 | In his summing-up , Mr Justice Leonard said the case against Kearney hinged on his identification by Mr Lewin , who had picked him out at an identity parade . |
| 29 | Ruth had felt it from the moment he had picked her up at the hotel and once again they had headed for the Cartuja site of the Expo . |
| 30 | Anyway , I had built her up at the front end so that she was standing with her fore feet on a half door and had given her a strong oily purgative . |