Example sentences of "[vb pp] [adv prt] at " in BNC.
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| 1 | They pay thousands and thousands for the Van Goghs and Modiglianis they 'd have spat on at the time they were painted . |
| 2 | By late afternoon we 'd stopped in at a number of bars along the pier . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Beaumont bought Jodami cheaply in Ireland for Yorkshire businessman John Yeadon after the horse had been broken in at the Curragh as a four-year-old . |
| 5 | Cambridge University lecturer Carl Swann , 36 , had checked in at Amsterdam 's Schiphol airport for a flight to Manchester just before an El Al cargo plane hit a nearby block of flats . |
| 6 | When mum and I had checked in at the travel desk and given in our suit cases we were able to wander around and have something to eat until our flight was called out . |
| 7 | The one time Mayor of Arden , father of the bruised Grace ( ‘ Had it been Paddy Ashdown I would n't have minded one little bit ’ ) , had checked in at the desk and was about to carry his overnight bag up to his room when he noticed her through the glass door of an adjoining room . |
| 8 | A spokesman at the hotel said he and the other members of the team had checked in at the weekend and appeared to be none the worse for their ordeal . |
| 9 | People are always being Healed down at the church . |
| 10 | Lumps of excrement and sodden pieces of toilet paper lie in the water in a state which suggests they have not been broken down at all . |
| 11 | In the classical theory of general relativity one can not predict how the universe would have begun because all the known laws of science would have broken down at the big bang singularity . |
| 12 | As an overall thing we probably take about a hundred and fifty phone calls every day from policy holders , and I suppose out of that you I suppose you people that have n't erm have broken down at the side of the road will ring up or something . |
| 13 | Instead we leave the pictures to be stripped in at the printers , and get a better image as a result . |
| 14 | He had stared down at her , grinning vacuously ; from time to time the smile would be replaced by a frown , and the Dalek Killer would demand the return of his chainsword , Ace was patient with him , but not affectionate . |
| 15 | She had stared down at him , feeling the hard disdain radiating from his muscular body and trying not to give way to the sheer physical power of the man . |
| 16 | They must have been filled in at the bank either by Mr Hatton himself or else by the cashier who was attending to him . ’ |
| 17 | The chart needs to be filled in at the time the child eats as retrospective memory is unreliable . |
| 18 | Dealers were expected to get these cards filled in at the same time as fulfilling their quotas of business , but nobody had time . |
| 19 | Some settlement is likely to take place over a period after the trench has been filled , but this can be filled in at a later stage . |
| 20 | ‘ So how shall your time be filled in at the barbecue ? ’ he queried with an unmistakable edge to his voice . |
| 21 | Less common was the Doric peplos , a sleeveless tunic with overfold gathered in at the waist , the whole pinned or buttoned at the shoulders . |
| 22 | ‘ It 's the way they 're gathered in at the top , Sergeant . ’ |
| 23 | Criticism of the empress has developed along at least three different lines . |
| 24 | The avenues explored in applying neural computing to these three applications and the results from these have been reported on at the regular monthly Club meetings . |
| 25 | 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 |
| 26 | David was always getting picked on at school ! |
| 27 | The company carried on at Brookhouse , under various members of the family . |
| 28 | The mill also housed a bakehouse on the lower floor , several bake-ovens set in the rear wall being largely intact , surviving as a reminder of what was once an important local trade , carried on at Aston mill for over a century . |
| 29 | On the one hand , the memorandum of association must qualify the company 's ability to provide surveying services , to the effect that such business must be carried on at all times in accordance with the Rules of Conduct for the time being of the RICS . |
| 30 | Business was carried on at a rather more sedate pace , lunches were longer and boozier and I was far , far happier . |