Example sentences of "[verb] [vb pp] [adv prt] at the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | HIGH TECHNOLOGY has taken over at the Port Everglades power station , run by the Florida Light and Power Company . |
| 7 | Martin Jackson sat among the people waiting by the arrivals gate and read a journal he 'd picked up at the news-stand . |
| 8 | 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 . ’ |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Far more important was the fact that this baby girl , born two weeks after the defeat of a Scottish army by the English at Solway Moss , and at a time when her remarkable father James V was lying burnt out at the age of thirty in his glorious hunting-lodge at Falkland , was to be within a week of her birth queen of the Scots . |
| 11 | Widely known for his anti-Maastricht politics , Fillon says that he wants to avoid ‘ getting bogged down at the EC level … whose cumbersome procedures put a damper on the research community ’ . |
| 12 | Our Jan 's getting fought over at the moment . |
| 13 | They pay thousands and thousands for the Van Goghs and Modiglianis they 'd have spat on at the time they were painted . |
| 14 | She must have looked down at the dog , and seen the blood stain and the tear on his trouser . |
| 15 | He 'd have come back at the weekend , most likely . |
| 16 | His work led to the celebrated equation which bears his name , an equation which can be found written down at the start of every book on quantum mechanics . |
| 17 | But I must have nodded off at the time . |
| 18 | My fingers feel chopped off at the knuckles . |
| 19 | As you will see in the following chapters , a British Open-winning caddie will not only have his yardages at his fingertips , but will also have gone out at the crack of dawn measuring up again before each round after studying where all the pin positions are . |
| 20 | However , having started back at the club it has become apparent that the club has no intention of coaching last season 's players to highlight weaknesses and prepare them for the higher level of rugby . |
| 21 | Beringed hands waved in a frenzy around Miranda 's own boldly streaked , mane-like hair , and Belinda quickly paid and left , realising she had been very lucky to get squeezed in at the salon when so many women wanted to look special for Christmas . |
| 22 | Well what does that mean then are you likely to get called out at the middle of the night ? |
| 23 | The report , compiled by Judge Ezra Kama and issued on July 18 , claimed that rioting had broken out at the Temple Mount after the accidental discharge of a police tear-gas canister near a group of Palestinian women . |
| 24 | One of the two ribbon cables was damaged , a wire had broken off at the joint between the cable and the plug , and both were rather short making installation harder than it should have been . |
| 25 | It was old and battered , with a single arm that had broken off at the end . |
| 26 | The one time Mayor of Arden , father of the bruised Grace ( ‘ Had it been Paddy Ashdown I would n't have minded one little bit ’ ) , had checked in at the desk and was about to carry his overnight bag up to his room when he noticed her through the glass door of an adjoining room . |
| 27 | A spokesman at the hotel said he and the other members of the team had checked in at the weekend and appeared to be none the worse for their ordeal . |
| 28 | When mum and I had checked in at the travel desk and given in our suit cases we were able to wander around and have something to eat until our flight was called out . |
| 29 | There the plaintiff had booked in at the reception desk of a hotel and only subsequently , on entering her room , did she discover behind the door a notice which claimed to exclude the hotel 's liability for guests ’ property . |
| 30 | Times I 've , I 've sat up at the window trying to wa watch her coming round two o'clock in the morning hoping that he 's fallen asleep down in the armchair . |