Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] at [det] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was more than a shock I put my head in my in my hand and I remember kneeling right at this spot and just crying my heart out . |
| 2 | So what they says is that I , I got on at this wall , jumped across onto this other wall , shinned up the outside of this other wall , stood on top of this the first floor wall and jumped up and caught hold of the top of the second floor wall and he reckon in the la about fucking twenty odd seconds , I was up and over and in , they , they , they fucking kill yourself , get down , I ca n't remember none of it . |
| 3 | He goes on at some length referring to the machinery used for scribbling , spinning , fulling etc , all of these processes carried out under one roof . |
| 4 | It goes on at some length to persuade people not to climb up this waterfall and muck about in it . |
| 5 | ‘ You do not know what goes on at this school , ’ said Rafiq . |
| 6 | You do n't need any further underwriting to carry on at that level , but you can do . |
| 7 | For most Southern advertisers and agencies , however , 1993 will be a year of hanging on at any cost . |
| 8 | Most conductors just sit down at that point and , beyond making sure that the orchestra kept up with the stage , leave the music to its own devices . |
| 9 | I sit down at this desk with a ledger . |
| 10 | When she 's taking solids , she wo n't want much at each meal . |
| 11 | Jarvis managed to bowl only at half pace in the match against Hampshire at Basingstoke which petered out into a draw yesterday and he is still being troubled by a sore hamstring . |
| 12 | The highlight of the Festival for us was really the International Violin Competition , which went on all day for 4 days ; 28 competitors played three different programmes , the ‘ survivors ’ being whittled down at each stage . |
| 13 | If the government decides to cut its expenditure , or if there is a loss of export markets , or if domestic firms decide to invest less at all interest rates ( perhaps because they are less confident about future economic prospects ) , then the unc line will shift downwards . |
| 14 | He lived in at that time just over the road er down the road here and then something went wrong during the war that was over my father and er cos matter of fact when my father come off the dredger erm the Harbourmaster wanted to give him er he give him the push and turned round and he said my father name was . |
| 15 | No , well he was he I knew him quite well because I lived in at that time when I w was on that T V series , I lived at Pinner . |
| 16 | Nevertheless , given the one-roomed hovels many lived in at that period , there may indeed have been a real improvement . |
| 17 | His grandparents usually chip in at this point . |
| 18 | To detect any contamination of samples before breaking the code , negative controls of sterile water were included with the samples in a ratio of one negative control per three samples and treated identically at each stage . |
| 19 | It was cold in the stadium and a leaden sky threatened to weep down at any moment on the small crowd assembled below . |
| 20 | A few checks will soon show which tags ( if any ) connect together at each position of the switch . |
| 21 | ‘ We must hope before you go to Oxford mother will have relented enough at any rate to make writing to you possible . ’ |
| 22 | Patrick squirmed uncomfortably in the jumper and the trousers , which were at least two sizes too large for him — he felt as if they were going to fall down at any moment . |
| 23 | where you 're just watching , helping , washing a few cups with somebody and , and then going on a course one or two days a week , and then you 're consider whether being took on and even if you 're not took on at that place at least you 've got something to say you 've done when you 're |
| 24 | If things carried on at this pace , she and Johnny would find themselves meeting every day . |
| 25 | ONE allowance which looks almost certain to disappear altogether at some point in the not-too-distant future , judging from its treatment in the Budget , is the married couple 's allowance , or MCA . |
| 26 | One can only deduce that the Eurasian and African plates began driving together at this time , with the latter dragged down beneath the rising Alpine mountains . |
| 27 | If the investment managers had to come in they could have come in at any time . |
| 28 | Cos it 's an outdoor job , it 's a three shift system for those on the bottom , er early , morning and late , cos the eight hour day had come in at this time . |
| 29 | We are concerned in fact that er the western nations did n't rather deplore earlier er Hussein 's actions against his own people using chemical weapons , and we think it 's a shame for us that we 've only come in at this point , and we must come in carefully I think . |
| 30 | For a drainage level to come in at this depth would have required some 600 ft. of tunnelling and of course , since the art of blasting was not yet introduced , it would have been a protracted and costly operation . |