Example sentences of "[adv] [conj] [verb] [pron] at the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Saw him at a sale being knocked down to a known horsemeat dealer and stepped in and outbid him at the last moment . |
| 2 | Now she let it down and tied it at the nape of her neck with a scarf . |
| 3 | Such investors tended to come in when stocks were exchanged rather than present themselves at the moment of initiation . |
| 4 | But I , but I think you know the , the , the thing that I found erm most difficult as you say was , was actually completing the C C Q and I think part of it and asking the question but it is , certainly it would be easier to do it using that on your knee rather than doing it at the table because I was aware that I was turning away |
| 5 | I like it when you 've got the FX actually going through the amplifier , rather than adding it at the desk , because there 's a certain quality and tonality when everything 's going through that guitar speaker . |
| 6 | Why do n't we take it to some safe place a hundred miles away and dump it at the bottom of the deep blue sea ? ’ |
| 7 | Turn the card over and put it at the bottom of the pack |
| 8 | She walked over and joined him at the table . |
| 9 | Her question was answered a few minutes later when Matthew himself came outside and saw her at the window . |
| 10 | Other examples in the Renaissance include the malcontent who haunts the very power structure which has alienated him , seeking reinscription within it but at the same time demystifying it , operating within and subverting it at the same time ; the revengers whose actions constitute an even more violent bid for reinscription within the very society which has alienated and dispossessed them ; the assertive women , the ‘ women on top ’ described by Natalie Zemon Davis who simultaneously appropriate , exploit , and undermine masculine discourse . |
| 11 | When they had done , he went over to the guard and took the full-length gown from him , pulling it on and tying it at the waist . |
| 12 | He tore it off and threw it at the wastepaper basket . |
| 13 | Staying seated while he prowls around makes me uneasy , so I stand up and join him at the window . |
| 14 | In 1809 William Bullock moved to London and in 1812 George sold up and joined him at the Egyptian Hall in Piccadilly . |
| 15 | Georgina picked up a letter from her desk , screwed it up and threw it at the waste-paper basket . |
| 16 | He clambered up and intercepted her at the kitchen door , enfolding her and drawing her in to his body so that his warmth flowed through to her , just as he had that day when he 'd found her on the beach , lost and afraid ; like him , a victim of the past . |
| 17 | I thought he were gon na forget that , I thought I should of got up and told everybody at the front |
| 18 | Do you want to give them now or do it at the end ? |
| 19 | But presumably he must have taken a shine , as the expression went , to Celia , particularly as he had gone to such trouble to seek her out and visit her at the Meadhaven Clinic . |
| 20 | We jumped out and met him at the rear of the vehicle and tried to show him a letter of introduction from the Algerian Ambassador to Britain , Lakhdar Brahimi . |
| 21 | And the best load of hay — he 'd come out and ask me at the finish . |
| 22 | Given the brief span of their acquaintance , the even briefer time they had actually spent together , how could he have been so presumptuous as to imagine that she would wish to fly out and join him at the Plaza ? |
| 23 | Entering the cafe , the Blackshirts went upstairs and showed themselves at the window , which provoked a hail of missiles from the crowd below . |
| 24 | The folds look as if they are pushing Helmsdale right into the sea ; as though the river in spate had collected all the houses it could uproot inland and deposited them at the river mouth with just enough of a toehold to keep them there . |