Example sentences of "a [noun] [verb] [adv prt] at the " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's a bit blocked up at the moment but yeah it would |
| 2 | I was born in Wapping in the year nineteen hundred and six , my father was a docker , one of my earliest recollections is of the dock strike of nineteen hundred and eleven , in which I played a part lining up at the soup kitchens to get soup for the family . |
| 3 | Near the end of the second count a fight broke out at the Zuwaya goal because the teller , the secretary to the local Assembly and technically above suspicion , but also Maghrabi and therefore watched very carefully , claimed to have recorded 900 votes . |
| 4 | I 'd just finished filling the hip flask when it went dark in the bar as a truck pulled up at the traffic lights outside . |
| 5 | You remember that night was pretty dark , so I could n't have seen if there was a boat tied up at the jetty . |
| 6 | ‘ They know that if they lose this one , then a gap opens up at the top . |
| 7 | A study carried out at the University of California in Berkeley compared woman who maintained 20 per cent weight loss over two years with dieters who relapsed . |
| 8 | A notable exception to this consensus in the early literature that madness and creativeness are frequently connected is a study carried out at the beginning of the century by Havelock Ellis . |
| 9 | A study carried out at the Army Personnel Research Establishment ( APRE ) in Farnborough simulated wartime conditions for ten soldiers , who were required to defend a position during a tactical exercise lasting ten days . |
| 10 | Stacey nodded enthusiastically , then they all turned as a minibus pulled up at the main entrance . |
| 11 | It was just before midnight and she was out on the terrace , staring out only half seeingly at the star-spangled horizon , when she heard the sound of a car drawing up at the front of the house . |
| 12 | But before she could dwell on it a vehicle pulled up at the office door . |
| 13 | She stood for a moment staring round at the flickering shadows thrown by the lone candle , the fire had died long since and the room was cold and suddenly lonely . |
| 14 | Moving back to the bridge , she halted for a moment to stare down at the sluggish water , and the wavering reflection thrown back at her made her feel like weeping forever . |
| 15 | anyway the girl said well I 'll ring first to see where you get your application form she , and the , Sue phoned and was on the other end and I said oh you should apparently you 've got have erm , er , application form and Mrs going to send you one , I said is that Mrs on the line she said is that Mrs speaking , she said yeah , I said will you tell it 's Mrs she said oh , well , tell Mrs she 's no need to apply I 've got all her details and she is being looked at , you know , we are looking into it anyway erm , as I say I had this letter just after Christmas to say that there was a job coming up at the Mencap at Wellingborough Road , Rushden , and I was being selected and erm would I go up for the informal interview on the Monday and the formal interview at the hospital the next morning , so I went up got the first person there and er she , she , it 's a new , it 's an old house but they 've done it all up and there all papers on the floor and then she said oh I think I 'll pick these up Ir Irene , I said oh call me Joy everybody does and she said alright , OK , I said oh I 'll help you so of course I said , I went straight down with her on the floor picking all these papers up and she , and when the next person come she said poor old Joy ai n't even got in the door and that 's it , she 's already working and she said I can see you 're like me Joy you 'll do a job when you see it 's got ta be done , I said I 've always been the same , I ca n't , I ca n't see a spoon or a bit of paper laying on the floor |
| 16 | like Jimmy next door , he 's always dropping off and he got a vent put in at the bottom of his door , they took the pipe out and behind you had a big open |
| 17 | If we picture a vibration as a cycle , that is as equivalent to a rotation round a circle to arrive back at the beginning again , the angular distance travelled in the mathematician 's natural units is 2π . |
| 18 | Then he turned and stood for a while gazing out at the Pacific . |
| 19 | And as Morse opened his passenger door , he stood for a while looking up at the Pole Star , and asking himself the question he had been asking for the past two hours : was there any way in which Downes could still have been the murderer after all ? |
| 20 | Full of excited anticipation , she caught an overnight train , managed to get a taxi to turn out at the crack of dawn to take her to Morfa , then set out along the causeway to Brynteg . |
| 21 | It is sometimes convenient to overwork the most efficient to the point where they become exhausted , but this is the quickest way to introduce bad habits such as leaving a kill or disregarding a rabbit tucked up at the end of a hole . |
| 22 | My third bus dropped me two streets away from home , which gave me a chance to call in at the local florist 's and buy a twenty-quid bouquet on PKB 's Amex card . |
| 23 | Lofoten was chosen for this first large raid because it offered a chance to hit back at the enemy as well as such economic targets as the destruction of fish oil supplies , which might impair German manufacture of nitro-glycerine and would reduce supplies of vitamin A and B capsules issued to German troops . |
| 24 | ‘ Did you get a chance to look in at the side studio , when they were there last Friday ? |
| 25 | On July 2 a strike broke out at the Markushegy unit of the Oroszlany coalmines , when miners demanded a wage rise of up to 50 per cent , the dismissal of incompetent managers and a halt to privatization of the mines ; the strike was settled on July 3 when the government acceded to most of the demands . |
| 26 | Maybe it 's a ploy to get back at the people TSB calls ‘ Rich Bastards ’ for having credit cards . |
| 27 | A thin streak of a woman bobbed up at the back . |
| 28 | The next day , some well-planted flowers and a nippy little spider that jumped quite considerable chasms to get to where it wanted to go showed me that juice was still to be had for Life and , quite soon after , I found bits of myself on a train looking out at the curious modern mixture of silver birch trees growing on slag heaps . |
| 29 | His hair was cut short with a cowlick dropping over at the front , like a freakster . |
| 30 | The programme entitled " Socialism , Democracy , Progress " , written by Gorbachev and his aide , Georgii Shakhnazarov , after drafting by a commission set up at the 28th Party Congress in July 1990 [ see pp. 37614-17 ] , unequivocally condemned Stalinism , and committed the party to forming a " controlled market economy " ( including the principle of private ownership ) , and to converting the Soviet Union into a " democratic federation of sovereign republics " , thereby recognizing " the principle of independence of the republican parties included in the CPSU " . |