Example sentences of "have [verb] [adv prt] at [art] " in BNC.

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1 so of course that would 've come out at a later stage , yeah , you know there 's a lot of business miles involved in flying to all these er places .
2 If they are to be more than mere training , then a process of informed reflection has to go on at the same time .
3 Their union has not only survived the rigours of a decade , but has come out at the other end stronger than ever .
4 The only technical challenge of the day is at the home of a lawyer , whose Peugeot 405 has conked out at the bottom of a steep drive .
5 An oil painting worth £12,000 and which was nicked from the Marquess of Bute in 1987 , has turned up at a car boot sale .
6 A nature garden has sprung up at a Bootle school where youngsters once had to play out in gas masks because of coaldust clouds .
7 I 'm the one who makes sure food gets in one end and I 'm the one who has to clear up at the other .
8 man has hit out at a health survey which he claims is insulting and highly personal .
9 The Aussie singer , who has been accused of copying Madonna herself , has herself been accused of copying Madonna , has hit out at the American superstar .
10 Wheelchair-bound Ethlyn Whittaker , aged 56 , from Great Sankey , Warrington , has started a campaign against the means test forms , and has hit out at the charges set to be introduced in October .
11 A NURSE who had to learn to walk again after his neck was broken has hit out at the prison sentence given to his attacker .
12 Michael Fallon , who is defending Darlington for the Tories , has hit out at the surcharge of £19 on poll tax bills which have already gone out .
13 But Darlington Tory councillor Peter Jones has hit out at the Labour group , which he said was alerted of problems seven years ago .
14 The death toll has worked out at the equivalent of seven a week since the two companies responsible for investing £190million in government securities went into liquidation last June .
15 HIGH TECHNOLOGY has taken over at the Port Everglades power station , run by the Florida Light and Power Company .
16 WHAT do you do when the date and time of your official opening has been set , the invitations sent out and your guest of honour has to drop out at the last minute due to matters of national importance ?
17 Moreover once inflation has levelled out at an acceptable rate , aggregate demand can be expanded once again with the result that the actual unemployment rate will fall back towards NAIRU .
18 By late afternoon we 'd stopped in at a number of bars along the pier .
19 He 'd looked up at the great thing dropping out of the sky right towards his head , and had flung himself down , expecting at any second to become just a little greasy mark in a great big hole .
20 Martin Jackson sat among the people waiting by the arrivals gate and read a journal he 'd picked up at the news-stand .
21 WELL , WHEN I OFFERED SIR WILFRED MY RESIGNATION , THE OLD BUGGER GAVE ME A SECOND-HAND YACHT HE 'D PICKED UP AT AN AUCTION …
22 She woke a short while later under the impression that she 'd dropped off at a cocktail party .
23 For their tickets , and I said at the area council if they had turned up like they turned up to pay them thirty pound and eight pound , if they 'd turned up at the same time with a petition form what a difference it would
24 Lorton wondered if he 'd chickened out at the last moment .
25 Instead of liking the look of the water , wading in carefully and finding it was wonderful , she 'd tumbled in at the deep end .
26 She was cracking those damn peppermints in her back teeth to disguise the fact she 'd called in at the Oyster Bar on her way up . ’
27 He 'd woken up at a quarter past four that morning to find Lavinia awake beside him , as often she was now in the middle of the night .
28 After all the signals of rejection she 'd sent out at the apartment — despite Marlin , despite the dangerous streets , despite the hour , despite their bitter history — she 'd come , bearing the gift of her body to his bed .
29 Someone had had to drop out at the last minute and there was an unexpected vacancy to be filled .
30 They pay thousands and thousands for the Van Goghs and Modiglianis they 'd have spat on at the time they were painted .
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