Example sentences of "[prep] be [verb] [adv prt] at the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Last season 's top scorer Mark Bright returned to the attack , after being left out at the start of the season , to hit two goals in as many games and clear the way for Warhurst to finally go , especially with England Under-21 striker Chris Bart-Williams also pressing for a starting spot . |
| 2 | David Ormerod , a geology lecturer at the Open University , has been held in Oradea , Romania , for the past three days , after being picked up at the main crossing point into Hungary . |
| 3 | ‘ I would n't want any child of mine to have to cope with being thrown in at the deep end like that . |
| 4 | Laughton was sent , against his wishes , to study the hotel trade at Claridge 's in London before being called up at the end of World War I ; he was rapidly invalided out of the army after being gassed on the western front in 1918 . |
| 5 | The plan was that everyone would meet at the cottage on Boxing Day , making their own way there and hopefully bringing enormous amounts of expensive food and drink if they did n't want to be turned back at the gate . |
| 6 | He 's still probably sweating a little because he 's waiting to be called off at the next motorway junction . |
| 7 | Hence there must be a facility for storing the cross- reference until it is required , and a system by which the editor is reminded that that cross- reference needs to be written in at the other point ( earlier or later in the text ) . |
| 8 | The Bank would require £5 to be written off at the time of sale and if the £5 was not injected as cash on day one , would even disallow the sale treatment . |
| 9 | He seemed to be gazing up at the night sky . |
| 10 | The Government treat Scotland as an afterthought and something to be tacked on at the end when the serious business has already been dealt with . |
| 11 | James 's problems were increased by a break in filming between the bulk of his scenes and a few that had to be tacked on at the end of the shoot . |
| 12 | This example page , which is also set out at one second of runtime per line , shows that the original sync sound transfers continue without a break , but additional background sound ( voices ) is to be faded in at the beginning of shot 18 . |
| 13 | An appropriate set of product communications needs to be sent out at the very earliest opportunity and more expensive , albeit more responsive media , such as a telephone , should be brought into effect . |
| 14 | The chart needs to be filled in at the time the child eats as retrospective memory is unreliable . |
| 15 | Instead we leave the pictures to be stripped in at the printers , and get a better image as a result . |
| 16 | Altars were once more to be railed off at the east end of parish churches . |
| 17 | Any views given in writing will be disclosed to the parties to the appeal and are liable to be read out at the hearing . |
| 18 | One Friday morning towards the end of the summer , Josh sat in the Guild Office , going through the wages list and making up the pay-packets to be doled out at the end of the day . |
| 19 | His partnership with Dean Hodgson , disappointed to be left out at the start , could develop into a reassuring one . |
| 20 | A Contracts Specialist with Scottish Nuclear since 1990 , Gordon will be involved in the setting up and administration of a range of contracts for assessment studies for work to be carried out at the Kozloduy Power Station . |
| 21 | More tests are to be carried out at the allotment wall in Castle Hill , Richmond , to find out its exact condition . |
| 22 | Resurfacing work is to be carried out at the Thinford roundabout and diversions will be in operation via Ferryhill , Kirk Merrington and Tudhoe . |
| 23 | And the person who had sorted it together at Birmingham made sure that the next stop it was at , the waggons would be at the back end to leave in that town and this is what my father was doing by er er shunting as it was called , or making a train up to go from Nottingham to London , or some other place in the country , with up to fifty or sixty trucks behind it and they did n't want the trucks next to the engine to be dropped off at the first place and having to shove and push about in their marshalling yard . |
| 24 | It does n't have to be slid on at the end of the needlebed . |
| 25 | ‘ You must think I 'm an inconsiderate devil if you 're expecting to be thrown in at the deep end to struggle as best you can . ’ |
| 26 | The only place where this type of sedimentation seems to be going on at the present day is in the ocean depths , where the deposits consist mainly of the remains of minute pelagic organisms , literally raining down from a watery heaven , plus volcanic dust raining down more intermittently from the aerial heaven above . |
| 27 | I think those points perhaps ought to be taken up at the General Purposes Committee since er we have the problem of their decisions . |
| 28 | He tells her , too , about the toy drawer in which the pencil-case was originally lost , and the characteristic choking dusty smell it would develop as the toys in it became mixed up with each other to form a kind of solid pudding , which had to be taken out at the end of each school holidays , and separated once again into its components . |
| 29 | STUART CANVAS PRODUCTS produce traditional wooden sightscreens , designed to be taken down at the end of the season for service and storage . |
| 30 | ‘ It 'll have to be taken in at the seams . ’ |