Example sentences of "[vb base] [adv prt] at " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the Gaza Strip , hundreds of women held a sit in at Red Cross headquarters in Gaza City and in Khan Yunis . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Brandy , meat and bread and cheese were distributed and he rode round the encampment raising his hat in response to the men 's cheers and delivering an admirably concise address : ‘ My brave boys , we have one march more and then all our labour is at an end ; sit down at your tent doors and be alert to take up your arms . ’ |
| 4 | Guests are often late and rarely sit down at the table on time . |
| 5 | Sit down at your machine with a cassette player and knit , following Diane 's clear and helpful explanations and in just a few hours YOU will be the master of your machine ! |
| 6 | Go on , sit down at once ! ’ ’ |
| 7 | He was pestering people at the bar , trying to butt into their conversations or sit down at their tables and behaving — as far as people who did not know he was ill were concerned — like an archetypal northern wally . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Please sit down at the table . |
| 10 | I sit down at this desk with a ledger . |
| 11 | I sit down at my desk and write a letter of accusations to Crilly . |
| 12 | There 's plenty here , so if you clean yourself up and sit down at the table I 'll put something out for you too . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Jamie and I sit down at a side table to wait . |
| 15 | His grandparents usually chip in at this point . |
| 16 | Great heads with green , multi-faceted eyes peer down at her . |
| 17 | Doctors from ethnic minorities predominate in at least two of our chosen specialties ( psychiatry and geriatric medicine ) — reflecting these specialties ' comparative unpopularity — and the proportion of such doctors is much greater in district general hospitals than in teaching hospitals . |
| 18 | Tackle loose stair treads in a similar way , mailing the front edge to the riser below , and piping glue in at the back . |
| 19 | The fifteenth hole is short but dangerous ; its plateau green is ringed by bunkers at the front and sides and the trees press in at the back in a claustrophobic way — a nightmarish hole if you are playing badly . |
| 20 | " And let it be said , " Harry went on , " now we 're talking straight , that Miss Jennifer here can forget all the Romish ideas she was fed on down at Roscarrock Hall and start eating Protestant pie , which she 'll find suits a Cornish stomach a sight better than all that hocus-pocus-nomminy-domminy rubbish they peddle down at Holy Joe 's . |
| 21 | Insects that fly in at the sides encounter a vertical baffle of netting that divides the trap along its axis , and tend to fly or clamber to the highest point of the baffle where the only way out is into a collecting jar . |
| 22 | Recipes for this " black tart stuff " as it was called appear in at least two cookery books of the second half of the seventeenth century . |
| 23 | British Columbia .............. 3 New Zealand .................. 48 AS THE All Blacks touch down at Heathrow today there is nothing but cold comfort for John Ryan , the Welsh coach , with the news of their heavy defeat of British Columbia at the Swangard Stadium here en route to their United Kingdom tour . |
| 24 | HISTORY will be made today when the South Africans touch down at Kingston Airport for their first tour of the Caribbean , which will comprise three one-day internationals and an inaugural Test match in Barbados . |
| 25 | And what about all the ground-crew when we touch down at Placerco ? |
| 26 | He turned to wash himeslf down at the sink , and it was minutes later when he and former girlfriend , Maxine Weblin , realised Rosie was dead . |
| 27 | Well , when I say less strenuous , I mean you leap in at the level that suits . |
| 28 | His marriage seemed like the Atlantic Ocean to her , something vast and unknowable which she could not attempt to bridge but only fly over at a terrible speed . |
| 29 | Meanwhile , as ministers ' eyes glaze over at the thousand ‘ what ifs ’ thrown up by war , they would do well to remember Lord Salisbury 's deflatingly modest dictum from more than a century ago : ‘ The first object of a treaty of peace should be to make a future war improbable . ’ |
| 30 | The density of TNF α+; cells within lamina propria and submucosa was determined with a point counting technique , using a Lennox graticule over at least five randomly chosen high power fields within each region and counting as positive graticule points overlying positively stained cells . |