Example sentences of "[adv prt] at [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This pattern has also had a stitch laddered down at each side which was then picked up , but as before , sometimes the dropped stitches can be left if they do not show . |
| 2 | The highlight of the Festival for us was really the International Violin Competition , which went on all day for 4 days ; 28 competitors played three different programmes , the ‘ survivors ’ being whittled down at each stage . |
| 3 | Slowing down at all corners and giving way to pedestrians . |
| 4 | Most conductors just sit down at that point and , beyond making sure that the orchestra kept up with the stage , leave the music to its own devices . |
| 5 | So when you run to get it started off , you have all your uranium fuel rods in the reactor and you 're control rods and it 's it 's shut down at that stage okay , then you gradually start withdrawing the control rods , and see what 's happening . |
| 6 | And only catered for Street Station , which was a small station , it was being run down at that time , Street Station . |
| 7 | Oh I see I must of just been putting it down at that time |
| 8 | I tell you , if a helicopter had come down at that customs post , there would have been no stopping me . |
| 9 | ‘ I slipped it in my pocket and forgot about it till one day when I was down at yon ford and I took a swig and , by God , it 's potent . ’ |
| 10 | Very gently the two women drew the light quilt away , sliding it from under the arm of the sleeper , drawing it down at both sides , peeling it off and over the end of the bed . |
| 11 | From the parking area above , you can easily walk down at either end of the crag , but it 's much more fun to follow the path leftwards and make a free 25 metres abseil through the blow-hole in the roof of the enormous cave of Baume Percée . |
| 12 | His hands came down at either side of her , trapping her against the wall . |
| 13 | Bere Forest also had a tough match against Meridian B and , once again , they found themselves a goal down at half time but they took a 2–1 lead in the second half before Meridian B equalized to take the game into extra time . |
| 14 | It was an important match , and after being 2–0 down at half time , that goal would have been the icing on the cake . |
| 15 | No the days were playing Shrewsbury Town at home — going in 2–0 down at half time — getting back to 2–2 , hitting the f**king post and then conceeding a goal in the last 5 minutes . |
| 16 | So 6-0 down at half time plenty of work to do , Bicester fly-half Neil Smith began the come-back ; 6-3 . |
| 17 | er , I know that erm , they were bad when we went down at half term |
| 18 | So obsessive was his craving for goals he could put us one up or one down at any minute ! |
| 19 | Patrick squirmed uncomfortably in the jumper and the trousers , which were at least two sizes too large for him — he felt as if they were going to fall down at any moment . |
| 20 | It was cold in the stadium and a leaden sky threatened to weep down at any moment on the small crowd assembled below . |
| 21 | I was given the option to have him put down at any time , but of course as time went on his recovery was more and more likely and my hopes got higher . |
| 22 | Now 31 , Foster is fortunate to be playing cricket at all after several knee operations , the most recent of which forced him to miss a slice of last season and the start of The possibility of his breaking down at any time can not be ignored and neither can his undistinguished international record at Lord 's . |
| 23 | They knew quite as much about human nature at the Foreign Office as they did down at any police station . |
| 24 | Whatever desperate or mundane disappointments might lie ahead , as we gazed down at those phantoms from another age I felt that we had become travellers in time . |
| 25 | I sit down at this desk with a ledger . |
| 26 | Mrs. Jervis , step upstairs to keep the maids from coming down at this noise . |
| 27 | The speeches are short ( perhaps the school prize-giving metaphor breaks down at this point ) and the polished public school tones of the Synod have given way to nasal northern echoes . |
| 28 | Now down at this end then , these are the adapters , and at this end , these are the innovators . |
| 29 | ‘ There are so many different subjects , it seemed pointless narrowing myself down at this stage . |
| 30 | A lot of people of my age do n't want to settle down at this stage . ’ |