Example sentences of "[verb] [adv prt] at [art] " 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 | The good thing about cruises is that you always have the ship 's staff to help you if you have a problem and there are always guided tours laid on at every port of call . |
| 3 | This is of flannel : the round part is plaited up to form the front , and a quilling of the bordering put on , a band of the same laid on at the back , and strings . ’ |
| 4 | The lectures laid on at the Sorbonne were of an abysmal simplicity , and given by lecturers who grossly though understandably underestimated their audience : they bored her as she had not been bored by work for years . |
| 5 | Well , you could have put that scene he made on at a theatre in the West End and charged for tickets , I reckon . |
| 6 | Later on in the profession itself the process goes on at a different level . |
| 7 | The same sort of thing , sadly , goes on at a higher level . |
| 8 | ‘ And , you know , I have n't the faintest idea of what actually goes on at a baby farm . |
| 9 | In other words you can have what goes on in the brain at the hardware level does or at the level of nuance does n't necessarily have to correlate with what goes on at a high level description . |
| 10 | No , you can not prevent it from happening — but scientists are a bit nearer to understanding what goes on at the molecular level . |
| 11 | I can see why nuns wear white when they take the veil , but when you think of the way everyone goes on at the prospect of the wedding night innocence is the last thing on anyone 's mind . ’ |
| 12 | I 've never been able to find out what goes on at the ceremony , but , from what I 've heard , there is more to it than rolling up your trouser-leg . |
| 13 | That 's where all the official entertaining goes on at the regatta — just to give you an idea of the scale of it , they 'll be putting away 50,000 pints of Pimm 's , 6,000 bottles of champagne and 3,000 pounds of strawbnerries . |
| 14 | They rode on at an easy trot , eating up the ground , until finally Murtach said in disgust : ‘ Bragad 's lady — out for a ride , it seems , with five of her husband 's escort for company . ’ |
| 15 | Because they have been treated more as adults here , the contrast between this and ordinary school makes it sometimes difficult for them to return and adapt to being treated as children again , so it is obviously preferable for them to continue on at the unit . |
| 16 | Yes , I c I was fortunate to be able to carry on at the same place . |
| 17 | It was agreed Somerville and McCrea would stay on at the apartment in case Quinn called in . |
| 18 | He had gained five distinctions in his Matriculation examinations and it had been decided that he would stay on at the College until he was eighteen to take Higher School Certificate . |
| 19 | It was at this moment that I decided I must learn to dance , so that I could stay on at the pensione instead of roaming about . |
| 20 | Yes and did you stay on at the hospital then ? |
| 21 | Idea now catching on at the double |
| 22 | Power stations , oil refineries , dairy farms , newspapers , hospitals , simply have to go on at the weekend , and often through nights as well as days . |
| 23 | If they are to be more than mere training , then a process of informed reflection has to go on at the same time . |
| 24 | Jamie and I sit down at a side table to wait . |
| 25 | Guests are often late and rarely sit down at the table on time . |
| 26 | The temptation and the suspense novel , a book in which a high degree of identification both from intellectual curiosity and emotional involvement is necessary for the writer as much as the reader , is to catch hold of some intriguing initial situation , sit down at the typewriter and go racing ahead from there . |
| 27 | Please sit down at the table . |
| 28 | There 's plenty here , so if you clean yourself up and sit down at the table I 'll put something out for you too . |
| 29 | And there 's another sort of things now that we do n't hear is when you sit down at the table to eat erm they 're probably the most the hostess would say now would be , Help yourself . |
| 30 | By late afternoon we 'd stopped in at a number of bars along the pier . |