Example sentences of "[be] [adv] [verb] [adv prt] at the " in BNC.

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1 Prickett , a former captain of the Wanderers , has been warmly welcomed back at the Memorial Grounds .
2 Orcs and Goblins almost overwhelm the remaining Dwarf holds but are finally beaten back at the Battle of Black Water .
3 Perhaps you have observed me , I am often around , if you are not fixed up at the moment what about me waiting for you at the bus stop tonight ?
4 They are not going in at the moment but that does n't worry me because he is a smashing lad doing the right things again .
5 That is , people tend to forget either in a motivated way , or accidentally , people will tend to minimise or trivialise the abuse to which they 've been subject in some cases because maybe saying that you 've been sexually abused as a child and that is why you 're so screwed up at the moment um that 's not necessarily a very self-benefiting thing to say .
6 ‘ We 're fully booked up at the Hospitality Unit , ’ said Sir Bryan , ‘ but Mrs. Mackintosh can easily lay on a cold lunch for them here .
7 With Norwegian jacquard , the colour changes , whether made with the colour changer or manually with the jacquard claw , are always carried out at the left side of the machine .
8 Things do n't look likely to improve , since recruits are hardly piling up at the door .
9 Unlike other LIFFE futures contracts , all open positions at the end of a trading day are automatically closed out at the first subsequent opening price for the respective delivery month on the Tokyo Stock Exchange 's JGB futures contract .
10 Ride are just going from strength to strength — one of the bands that are really cutting through at the moment .
11 ‘ The sandwiches 'll be all curled up at the edges , ’ his mum complained .
12 Yeah , I 'll have it in a minute I 'm all glued up at the moment .
13 So I 'm not queuing up at the bakers .
14 These must be clearly thought through at the outset .
15 These must be clearly thought through at the outset .
16 This ladder may be either caught in at the beginning by transferring the ladder stitch to the adjacent needle OR the stitch can be run down as you work and picked up and reversed after the cable is finished to form a purl stitch on the right side .
17 I 'm completely tied up at the hotel . ’
18 We talked of toxic wastes ; the possibility of there ever being true democracy in Tonga ( ‘ on paper the place is ripe for revolution , it is true , and our friends in the other islands are experiencing troubled times , so we must be wary ’ ) ; the complaints about corruption among the Tongan nobility , the curious business arrangements engineered between members of the royal family and the dubious Americans who were forever fetching up at the palace doorstep wishing to bend a royal ear to this scheme or that , with wealth and fame for all ; and the most surprising news : his decision to demolish the royal palace .
19 After playing their parts in a fruitless search of the Butcher Building , Dee and Kelley were now dining out at the Drowning Handbag , an up-market eatery in the best part of town .
20 Christian roadblocks were therefore set up at the eastern end of the Ring motorway and the first 40 Muslim men to arrive at the Christian checkpoint , some of them travelling with their wives and children in their family cars to homes in east Beirut , were taken beneath the overpass and had their throats cut .
21 Acceptance sampling is usually carried out at the customer 's premises and consists of examining samples of goods delivered , noting the number of reject , or unsatisfactory , items , comparing this number with an agreed acceptable quality level .
22 At percutaneous transhepatic cholangiography bile is often sampled on initial puncture of the liver at a site distant from the stricture whereas at endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography sampling is usually carried out at the site of the stricture after it has been disrupted by insertion of an endoprosthesis .
23 I may try to shrink myself to an infinitesimal point of thinking Ego to which all spontaneous process is external , but the spontaneous is always springing up at the centre of me , thrusting me forward or dragging me back , and it is only at the periphery that I can take full control of it .
24 Cosmic textures with CDM and ( Fig. 1 a ) is also ruled out at the 99% level and exceeds the COBE fluctuations at the level .
25 The model gives an excellent fit to all the data , whereas the case is marginally ruled out at the 99% level .
26 In another case we have managed to eliminate the first galley stage completely The first setting is now carried out at the first page proof stage and even this will save around £50,000 per year — more than the cost of the entire system .
27 ‘ I 'm afraid that my husband is often caught up at the hospital and so I simply do n't know whether he will be free . ’
28 THE AGRICULTURAL Research Council is about to dive in at the deep end of commercial research by launching the Agricultural Genetics Company .
29 The trend in a number of large corporate structures to remove layers of management to allow better communication and a clearer view of what is actually going on at the productive base is recognition that clear , unambiguous communication is a further mainspring in developing an organisation .
30 I mean I want to start with , with pensions pay and er , basically what 's happening is that everyone 's suffering pay cuts er and er th th what the government is doing is , first of all is attacking the State pension scheme er , and it 's allowing , er , employers to continue to rip-off occupational pension schemes and er since it 's pay , and it 's our pay , we wan na make sure we control it and I do n't see why the employers should be allowed to continue to exploit er , us both at one , both in terms of the pay we get now and the pay we get when we retire , whether it be at sixty whether it be er , whenever we wish to er retire and er , I think it 's very important if the government is er committed to crime prevention , that it actually starts doing something about those for , those , those employers , and Maxwell has , has been er referred to already , he 's just the tip of this very big iceberg er , and er , up and down the country , people are suffering substantial thefts of pay er employers are systematically organizing wages snatches , that 's what this er pension fraud is all about , and it 's about time that our government actually got round er and tackled this very important corporate crime issue that 's actually going on at the moment and er , I think that it 's very important that we ensure that we 're involved in er managing our own pension sch p pension funds , and therefore we should be pushing through demands of the er th the , the charter for pension fund democracy , and ensuring er that the government actually listens to what we 're saying , and actually er comes up with answers why we can not have the right to control our pay cos I can I ca n't see an any reason that they come back and say why democracy , why they ca n't , why , why they wo n't allow us to have a greater say and control our own pension funds and that 's I think is a legitimate demand that we should be campaigning for , up and down the country .
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