Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] [adv prt] at a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She stopped looking up at a rocket : a towering metal redwood that had never flown because the ones that flew were junk scattered across the Gulf of Mexico . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | A nature garden has sprung up at a Bootle school where youngsters once had to play out in gas masks because of coaldust clouds . |
| 4 | man has hit out at a health survey which he claims is insulting and highly personal . |
| 5 | By late afternoon we 'd stopped in at a number of bars along the pier . |
| 6 | WELL , WHEN I OFFERED SIR WILFRED MY RESIGNATION , THE OLD BUGGER GAVE ME A SECOND-HAND YACHT HE 'D PICKED UP AT AN AUCTION … |
| 7 | She woke a short while later under the impression that she 'd dropped off at a cocktail party . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | A few lengths were produced and these amateurish efforts were seen by a director of Coles who was passing through Braintree and happened to look in at an art exhibition in the Institute . |
| 10 | The inexperienced , particularly , can not face selling out at a loss . |
| 11 | Removal of water through artesian wells is held to be the reason why the tower began going off at an angle soon after building work began in 1174 . |
| 12 | Where the line of stones breaks , lines of energy could be detected moving off at a tangent . |
| 13 | Do n't try to give up at a time when you are already stressed . |
| 14 | ‘ Now , I sat up in bed last night reading papers because I did n't want to turn up at a meeting unprepared . |
| 15 | Well this is the situation where you would ideally you do n't want to have to look down at a speedometer . |
| 16 | Easing the car into first gear , she set off back along the road , a frown deepening on her face as she was forced to crawl along at a snail 's pace , unable to see more than a couple of feet ahead in the ever-thickening snow . |
| 17 | The Fire was started to get back at a prisoner who had refused to take part in a food boycott . |
| 18 | But I 've stopped off at a street market on the way over for socks and shirts and thin garish underpants . |
| 19 | Boyfriend Garry Curtis , of Bedhampton , Hants , dragged her to safety — and rescuers arrived to find the couple , who had fallen out at a party , kissing and hugging . |
| 20 | An elderly female novelist had come in at a quarter to six and Penelope had found herself trying to explain why her latest novel had not been reviewed in the Sunday Telegraph , why it had not been advertised more widely , why copies had not been displayed on the bookstall of a friend 's local station , why it had not yet been reprinted . |
| 21 | Apparently I had windmilled in at a quarter to ten , with three bottles of champagne , all of which I dropped in one catastrophic juggle . |
| 22 | I sent her a brochure I had picked up at a travel agent , together with a bouquet of roses and a letter . |
| 23 | Only last week ( British Medical Journal , vol 286 , p 765 ) there was an account of two young lassies in Australia who had turned up at a health centre feeling nauseous and generally out of sorts . |
| 24 | While a few people do not like tape recorders , others love to have what they said played back at a family party , and then argue and correct each other and make interesting extra comments . |
| 25 | The route we had taken through the cordillera from Cajamarca had brought us virtually into the outskirts of Tmjillo and we had put up at a hotel in the centre of the city , all three of us more or less out on our feet . |
| 26 | God how she hated them , the middle classes , penny-pinching , doling out their little bits , in their minds always the thought of saving and accumulating , saving — thought Alice , her mouth full of bile , as she stood gazing up at a beam a foot across that looked grey and flaky , with whitey-yellow fibres in it — the dry rot itself , which would lay its creeping arms over all the wood , if it were allowed , then creep down the walls , into the floor below , spread like a disease … |
| 27 | I am aware of agency nurses who have turned up at a hospital expecting to work on a ward caring for elderly people , only to be sent to work in the intensive care unit . |
| 28 | For the first six months they have to live in at a training centre . |
| 29 | For ages he had been meaning to call in at a place down by the Elephant and Castle where they sold gramophone parts , but it was not until this morning that he had finally got around to it . |
| 30 | ‘ And why the devil we have to rush off at a moment 's notice , I do n't know … ’ |