Example sentences of "[vb -s] [adv prt] at the " in BNC.
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| 1 | No , you can not prevent it from happening — but scientists are a bit nearer to understanding what goes on at the molecular level . |
| 2 | 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 . ’ |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | " Andrew is a very complex character as a man , but when he 's composing , he 's just like anybody else — he sits down at the piano looking for the tune , " explains Black . |
| 6 | if you like the germ of the idea of the poem is alive in his mind because he sits down at the page thinking I 'm going to write a poem . |
| 7 | But she has this threatening jacket , a dark linen one which she can pop on over the Lycra , and it has big shoulders and big assertive buttons and nips in at the waist , and this means , ‘ Fun I may be , but business is business and I will rip your arms and legs off in the boardroom if you let me . ’ |
| 8 | Behind this board ( called a pathfinder ) is the start boat which motors along at the same speed as the board . |
| 9 | Although it might be a temptation to say hot air , because you do put hot air in , but it says goes in at the top of the furnace . |
| 10 | That tradition lives on at the Banzai Pipeline , not so much the Wembley Stadium of surfing as its Coliseum . |
| 11 | The laibon simply looks down at the floor of the boma . |
| 12 | He looks down at the fag packet and taps it round another couple of revolutions on the table . |
| 13 | He looks down at the table , smiling , and draws a face by running his finger through a ring of beer . |
| 14 | Rather it looks down at the scarred and broken Christ figure as if to say , ‘ Why ? |
| 15 | She looks down at the figure slumped in the chair , sees the skull under the frail skin which hangs loosely from the bone , at once tight and yet with too much of it , the bony fingers picking at the fringes of the rug . |
| 16 | These wide , panoramic views are usually extremely compatible , as Natassa combines views of two of the Tyne Bridges in one double shot ; looks down at the field pattern provided by the flagstones at the corner of the street ; looks back on-shore , from the water 's edge ; or concentres on old rotting timbers out to sea . |
| 17 | Those who must let them enter do not like the work , for they fear what sidles in at the same time — the jealousies , the old rows and the suspicion of old fraud . |
| 18 | Aye and what happens is , it usually starts in at the corner of your finger |
| 19 | He glances down at the final layer of glasses . |
| 20 | He glances down at the table , as if the answer might be written on a beer mat . |
| 21 | Erm , and that 's about it really , erm , she lives in at the minute , and this was a gentleman called in the sky . |
| 22 | A person who holds over at the end of a lease is not a trespasser until demand is made , as only the person in possession can be trespassed against ( Hey v Moorhouse ( 1839 ) 6 Bing NC 52 ) . |
| 23 | But then I 've got ta meet Emma and she stands up at the top . |
| 24 | The new fifth television channel , wherever it is situated , will open up further opportunities for programme-makers when it starts up at the end of 1993 . |
| 25 | One looks up at the cheery advertisement that reads ‘ Lonely ? |
| 26 | She looks up at the grey clouds scudding across the sky , down at a vista of narrow back gardens , some neat and trim with goldfish ponds and brightly painted play equipment , others tatty and neglected , cluttered with broken appliances and discarded furniture . |
| 27 | Thus it is Pippin who looks up at the sun and the banners and offers comfort to Beregond , and Merry who never loses heart when even Théoden appears prey to ‘ horror and doubt ’ . |
| 28 | Here the Harper clan gather , a small tribe , frail , ageing , on the threshold of 1980 , in the presence of the sky : here thirteen-year-old Celia , young , aspiring , judgemental , reflects upon the past , as , long after her usual bedtime , she looks up at the stars and plots her own future . |
| 29 | And of course , ’ adds Myra , as she looks up at the lights on the hills where the Bakers live , ‘ Howard and Felicity . ’ |
| 30 | They are sitting by the eye of the stream where it looks up at the sun before it weeps down the mountainside . |