Example sentences of "[vb infin] [adv] at the [noun] " in BNC.

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1 So down at squadron level we had this very much in our minds when in time the orders came down through Group , through station , right to the people who had to do the carting and the bombing , I feel I should explain right at the outset that I can only view at the later stages of the war the state of morale as I saw it in the entire Pathfinder Force .
2 It was agreed Somerville and McCrea would stay on at the apartment in case Quinn called in .
3 Yes and did you stay on at the hospital then ?
4 He had gained five distinctions in his Matriculation examinations and it had been decided that he would stay on at the College until he was eighteen to take Higher School Certificate .
5 It was at this moment that I decided I must learn to dance , so that I could stay on at the pensione instead of roaming about .
6 It is understood that the companies set out in Schedule 2 , are , other than ABC GmbH and ABC Corp , wholly owned subsidiaries of ABC and will remain so at the time of the acquisition of ABC .
7 I suppose it was good for us , but we did n't think so at the time .
8 I mean , I did n't think so at the time but when I think of it you know , and later when I came back after the war we , oh my God !
9 Man 's cultural development can arise only at the cost of a persisting lack of satisfaction of those sexual impulses which are seen as improper by men and women — the higher the degree of civilization and education , the greater the number of unsatisfied impulses .
10 ‘ Surely she did n't bathe alone at the Cove , especially at that time of the year ? ’
11 A wash and brush up keeps the wheels in good shape … but sometimes mechanics can only sratch away at the problem .
12 But we 'll know more at the PM . ’
13 There is no trim , mixture , flaps , prop control or gyros to worry about , so with a final tug at the harness , one can only glare balefully at the JAP again , decide that it has kept going thus far and may therefore be relied upon to continue doing so for a few minutes longer , and prepare to commit aviation .
14 Not only do we strip off at the beach , but we have brought the values of the beach inland .
15 From the outside , a passer-by will gaze up at the window , and all he will see is that lavender light .
16 And there 's plenty of time because the moment they return they 'll all line up at the toilets . ’
17 Contestants will line up at the Blundellsands Hotel , Crosby , at 8am on Sunday and will then parade through the city centre before setting off on their cross-Channel jaunt .
18 But something made him glance up at the lounge window as he approached .
19 A noisily closing door made them glance up at the ship 's sunlit bridge .
20 Which was supposed to open and flap back at the end of the world and let her out , resurrected .
21 I said , oh perhaps they could come up to us you know , I did n't know quite at the moment what our plans were for over the weekend .
22 They get it into their heads that their fund-raising dinner for Hypothermic Pensioners In High Rise Blocks In Portsmouth will fall apart at the seams if Dillie Keane is n't there .
23 ‘ In other words you could n't bear the thought that there might just be one female in a hundred-mile radius who did n't fall apart at the seams every time you deigned to smile in her direction , ’ she spat back .
24 In the morning the water would run , run fast and sweet along a mains pipe until it met with an obstruction and the water would eat away at the mass that blocked it .
25 ‘ If a husband or wife wants a family deep down , then it may eat away at the relationship and they may blame their partner for not allowing them to fulfil their needs . ’
26 Even a pious man like Jovellanos could feel bitterly at the attempts of the Inquisition to sabotage his plans for establishing a modern technical institute at Gijon .
27 What do the journalists type on at the Post ? ’
28 However , they will break down at the end of the black hole 's life when its mass gets very small .
29 But a bowler who does not break down at the end of every other over and who can finish each season with an average around the 25 mark would be worth his weight in gold now .
30 624 ( see above , p. 41 ) , he did not do so at the court of the king of the eastern Angles but at that of the still-powerful Eadbald , king of Kent , whom he seems to have continued to treat with considerable respect .
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