Example sentences of "[verb] [adv prt] at the [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | I can see why nuns wear white when they take the veil , but when you think of the way everyone goes on at the prospect of the wedding night innocence is the last thing on anyone 's mind . ’ |
| 2 | If we were gon na say , right , this only is gon na apply to mega- projects , tt and therefore it would be appropriate for the project coordinator to be the person to sit down at the start of the job , when he 's agreeing the remit with the client , when he 's developing the erm tt er who 's doing what within the functions . |
| 3 | If you follow the principles laid down at the beginning of this feature then you should have no problem . |
| 4 | These leaves are beautifully preserved in a flat-bedded and very highly fissile shale , laid down at the bottom of a fresh water lake . |
| 5 | To its horror it will find itself slipping and sliding , tumbling down at the mercy of its foes . |
| 6 | Just er we lived down at the bottom of the village there . |
| 7 | As an overall thing we probably take about a hundred and fifty phone calls every day from policy holders , and I suppose out of that you I suppose you people that have n't erm have broken down at the side of the road will ring up or something . |
| 8 | Court Four of the Royal Courts of Justice in London was packed with judges and barristers to hear the support lent to Lord Lane , who announced in February that he was stepping down at the age of 73 , 18 months before the compulsory retirement age for judges . |
| 9 | Two days later Horst Teltschik ( CDU ) announced that he would be stepping down at the end of the year as Kohl 's foreign policy adviser at the Chancellery . |
| 10 | Although it might be a temptation to say hot air , because you do put hot air in , but it says goes in at the top of the furnace . |
| 11 | We filed into the boxes reserved for the writers and gazed down at the acres of empty seats . |
| 12 | Motherwell ‘ keeper Thomson was at full stretch to smother the youngster 's shot which looked like sneaking in at the foot of the post . |
| 13 | It should be no more and no less than the business carried on at the time of completion . |
| 14 | With only three minutes remaining in their Sharwood 's Irish Senior Cup semi-final clash against Pegasus , Sinead , who had only come on at the start of the second-half , popped up to score the only goal of the game . |
| 15 | The unending toil , which ground on at the pace of the changing seasons and the constant struggle against relentless Nature would be in vain , as far as Jonadab Oaks was concerned , unless there were others of his name to follow in his footsteps and work this land to which he had devoted his life . |
| 16 | The laibon simply looks down at the floor of the boma . |
| 17 | Francis stopped and peered down at the complex of buildings . |
| 18 | A similar directive covering public works contracts over £3.5 million is scheduled to come in at the beginning of 1990 . |
| 19 | Glen Ball , the Neath coach and team manager , is to stand down at the end of the season . |
| 20 | Aye and what happens is , it usually starts in at the corner of your finger |
| 21 | Erm I think they thought they 'd been let down at the end of it . |
| 22 | The Shaws moved in at the beginning of December 1906 with a married couple , Henry and Clara Higgs , to look after them . |
| 23 | The boyfriend moved in at the beginning of the summer ; he gets by doing casual work on the farms . ’ |
| 24 | The 63 was one of a handful of four-wheel-drive cars that saw brief service in 1969 before they were parked in at the end of the blind alley into which their manufacturers had ventured . |
| 25 | A person who holds over at the end of a lease is not a trespasser until demand is made , as only the person in possession can be trespassed against ( Hey v Moorhouse ( 1839 ) 6 Bing NC 52 ) . |
| 26 | Girls were dropped off at the ends of the roads where they lived , motor-cycles were pushed into front gardens and covered with PVC sheeting . |
| 27 | If the world 's 1984 stockpile of nuclear weapons were compressed into bombs of the size dropped on Hiroshima , it would take 4,600 years to go through them all if they were let off at the rate of one a day . |
| 28 | Patrol cars drew up at the bottom of the steps . |
| 29 | A mortuary van drew up at the end of the bridge , and two men , carrying a stretcher , came down the steps . |
| 30 | Previous page , gearing up at the foot of the route ( photos Ed Douglas ) . |