Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [pron] at the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Toucans collect them one at a time , throwing them up in the air and deftly catching them at the back of their throats . |
| 2 | A system where the user presses a series of buttons without thought and gets exactly what he needs ( rather than what he at that stage thinks he wants ) is efficient but not entirely educational , any more than one so difficult that the user could only throw himself at the mercy of the person sitting at the reader 's adviser desk . |
| 3 | So in two years flat , after riding on the crest of a wave , people who had been cock of the walk in ICI suddenly found themselves at the bottom of the league . |
| 4 | ‘ I have only seen her at the funeral . |
| 5 | ‘ They insisted that they held the meeting at a place of their choosing and only told us at the last minute . |
| 6 | You 'll only spend it at the bar otherwise . |
| 7 | The problem that exists is that factions of governors who are members of the European Central Bank and who disagree with its policies may join together to frustrate them at the national level . |
| 8 | It was a thoroughly tested number as Tiller had not only shown it at the Palace but his La Scala Girls had also performed it at the Winter Gardens Pavilion , Blackpool , the previous year . |
| 9 | ‘ It was quite usual for me to take on this sort of job but it was n't usual for him to make an appointment for me and only tell me at the last minute , especially when it meant working after hours . |
| 10 | A farmer had a load of unwanted sawdust so piled it at the end of his drive with a notice : ‘ Free sawdust — help yourself ’ . |
| 11 | ‘ You 'd better drop me at the hospital . ’ |
| 12 | The plan was to let him ride Dave Leach 's 400cc machine in the first round of the Superteens last weekend and then move on to Moodie 's Yamaha for the Scot is only riding it at the North West and the TT . |
| 13 | But then again , we can only hear them at the moment , but there are six of them . |
| 14 | The Oxford ordination ceremonies have been booked for April the sixteenth and seventeenth of next year although the Diocese stresses there 's been no race to be first , they 've merely found themselves at the head of the queue . |
| 15 | Surely the manager could have massaged his ego enough to keep him at the club . |
| 16 | Thus if my main concern is to have a vast stock of personal possessions and control over the lives of others , I can doubtless only have them at the expense of others . |
| 17 | But since such progress is conceived as immanent to musical history itself , independent of variants of musical practice , social usage and reception , the theory moves dangerously close to a hypostasis of technique ; at the very least it confines the relationship between musical and social structures to the level of the longue durée , since at that level society is ‘ encapsulated ’ in music , while in between , music 's ‘ autonomous unfoldment … follows the social dynamics without a glance or any direct communication ’ ( ibid : 206–7 ) , still less putting itself at the service of particular social subjects . |
| 18 | ‘ Your'e better hurting yourself at the time , because you 're going to feel awful when you see the paper and it 's not right , ’ he rationalizes . |
| 19 | ‘ I only see her at the office . |
| 20 | Tony Coton apparently embraced him at the end and gave him soime words of encouragement . |
| 21 | A Gothic mahogany bookcase ( lot 478 , est. $6,000–9,000 ) was a beautiful piece of transitional classical/Gothic Revival furniture , though it was obviously missing something at the top , either an additional moulding or added tracery . |
| 22 | Shadow ministers who visited Washington thus found themselves at the centre of considerable attention , and were probed in detail on their thinking over a range of issues . |
| 23 | I soon found myself at the Gasthof Lôwen in the little village of Sasbach . |
| 24 | She was able to get her bearings this way and soon found herself at the back of the house . |
| 25 | just let it at the bottom . |
| 26 | I just thrown something at the erm |
| 27 | Sitting in Casey 's office with a group of people sometime in the autumn of 1985 , John McMahon , his deputy , suddenly said : ‘ You wo n't believe what Bud McFarlane just told me at the White House . ’ |
| 28 | He made a birdie at the next , but just missed one at the last and lost by a shot . |
| 29 | Just dump it at the door there . |
| 30 | He was pulling him , trying to get him off me — he threw him — he just threw him at the bed — I knew he was all right , he were screaming but I could n't — they were both screaming , Cathy and Gary both , and he got me by the throat . |