Example sentences of "[vb base] at the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Does Birmingham want a centre where people live and work , or a shopping complex that draws in people who live and sleep at the end of the bus routes ? |
| 2 | Cars sleep at the kerbsides . |
| 3 | As I say , fun , fun , fun I say , like I say sometimes you can do a pissing rain in a fucking hole and have about four hours sleep at the weekend , then we get , we get back get into the bar and we 'd have a fucking good laugh about it . |
| 4 | Robert , reserves boss at the Oval for the previous six years , will be a hard act to follow , winning the league four times , including last season . |
| 5 | Her heart went out to Antoinette Gebrec , as yet happily ignorant of the fate of her son , and to Philippe Bonard , whose long-cherished dream had turned to a nightmare , while the man they both loved was lying in a broken , bloody heap at the foot of the cliff . |
| 6 | The duvet symbolizes the whole wretchedness of leaving , so I slump at the table , pulling a long face and blowing ripples in the surface of my coffee which has grown cold anyway . |
| 7 | This fresco is mirrored by another that can be seen from Via Falcone at the back of the church . |
| 8 | The reason for this is simple : you will never be able to judge the precise moment of impact , so brace for it long beforehand , fly at the correct speed , keep the wings level and do n't try to round out unless you are absolutely sure you can see the surface . |
| 9 | Or , fly at the last assigned altitude or minimum sector altitude , whichever is the higher . |
| 10 | In 1976 he told listeners to the West Indies Test at the start of a new over , ‘ The bowler 's Holding , the batsman 's Willey . ’ |
| 11 | He faces a four-year ban after failing a drugs test at the Barcelona Olympics . |
| 12 | Right , we , we , we did actually draw , or we not draw , we , we adopted a constitution during the year and the officers that are erm elected are the Chair , the Secretary and the Treasurer , erm and other , together with other such officers , yeah to determine by general meeting , erm , so it 's really only those three , er and we have sometimes had Advice Chair if there 's only been one Chairman have n't we , one Chair person erm so I think people need to say if they do n't wish to carry on the jobs they 're doing and if anybody wishes to nominate anyone in a particular post then slip at the bottom of the minutes could be filled in and either brought to meeting or sent back to the Secretary . |
| 13 | You did n't see it at first , but you saw if you held you head at the right angle . |
| 14 | A more detailed list of Japanese expressions appear at the end of this book ( p. 109 ) . |
| 15 | Detailed summaries of this study 's findings appear at the end of each chapter . |
| 16 | Blossom-end-rot : Sunken black spots appear at the base of the fruit . |
| 17 | He had paced all the possible routes and timings and , given a small margin of error , had come to the conclusion that Drew could have left his lodging at the witnessed time and appear at the theatre at the attested time seven minutes later . |
| 18 | Though the traditional pillar boxes — oval , round or octagonal — appear at the moment safe , the wall-mounted variety are under threat . |
| 19 | First , just two appear at the front end as distinct blocks of tissue and then , about each hour , another pair are added behind them and a wave of formation proceeds backwards so that at the end of a few days there are 46 somites . |
| 20 | or you could use one or more of the questions that appear at the end of each section of the main text of this booklet . |
| 21 | They must consider all new books as well as the old ones , and must therefore hold back enough funds to cover those books which appear at the end of the financial year . |
| 22 | Wintering birds first appear at the coast in August and September , and most have left by early April . |
| 23 | Dark pigments appear at the tip of the nose , around the edges of the ears , at the very tip of the tail and on the pads of the feet . |
| 24 | The ‘ Lord Mayor ’ and his ‘ Lady ’ appear at the door of the Forrester 's Arms and climb into the trap which is waiting at the door . |
| 25 | On the same day that The Boomtown Rats play Leixlip Castle in Dublin to 14,000 people , that Bob Geldof sweeps out on stage screaming ‘ Who 's won ? ’ referring to the battle with Dublin eldermen for the right to play ; the same day that 30 people are hurt and Geldof refers to Ireland as a ‘ banana republic ’ and a ‘ despicable nation ’ , U2 appear at the Garden Of Eden club in Tullermeny . |
| 26 | Two wings appear at the top of the Caduceus . |
| 27 | Fine pinkish-white roots appear at the nodes . |
| 28 | In other words , the reader should ignore the PR specialist 's material at the front of the annual report and begin with the statutory accounts which normally appear at the end . |
| 29 | Mr Searle also likes Quattro Pro for Windows ' object inspectors : dialogue boxes appear at the click of a mouse button to lead you step by step through all the options available in a particular context ; you do n't have to select umpteen menu options . |
| 30 | When the stress at the ends or edges of the joint reaches the strength of dry casein therefore , cracks appear at the edges of the joint which immediately produce their own private local concentrations of stress , and so the cracks run through the middle of the joint , much as they would in glass . |