Example sentences of "[verb] [adv prt] at [art] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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1 | The good thing about cruises is that you always have the ship 's staff to help you if you have a problem and there are always guided tours laid on at every port of call . |
2 | Well , you could have put that scene he made on at a theatre in the West End and charged for tickets , I reckon . |
3 | 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 . ’ |
4 | It was agreed Somerville and McCrea would stay on at the apartment in case Quinn called in . |
5 | Guests are often late and rarely sit down at the table on time . |
6 | By late afternoon we 'd stopped in at a number of bars along the pier . |
7 | She could almost imagine the door opening and Isabelle coming in to sit down at the dressing-table with its pretty antique tortoiseshell and silver toilet set , humming softly as she loved to do . |
8 | ‘ I see nothing to celebrate , ’ said Charlotte Feaver , the first to sit down at the table despite what lay upon it . |
9 | 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 . |
10 | If you follow the principles laid down at the beginning of this feature then you should have no problem . |
11 | These leaves are beautifully preserved in a flat-bedded and very highly fissile shale , laid down at the bottom of a fresh water lake . |
12 | Beaumont bought Jodami cheaply in Ireland for Yorkshire businessman John Yeadon after the horse had been broken in at the Curragh as a four-year-old . |
13 | To its horror it will find itself slipping and sliding , tumbling down at the mercy of its foes . |
14 | Just er we lived down at the bottom of the village there . |
15 | 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 . |
16 | 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 . |
17 | 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 . |
18 | 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 . |
19 | Brother Cadfael was just emerging from the door of the infirmary in mid-morning , after replenishing Brother Edmund 's stores in the medicine cupboard , when they rode in at the gatehouse before his eyes . |
20 | Members of his court such as Diane de Beauveau Craon , her stepmother Laure and certain editors are invited to sit in at the studio for a preview . |
21 | Motherwell ‘ keeper Thomson was at full stretch to smother the youngster 's shot which looked like sneaking in at the foot of the post . |
22 | It should be no more and no less than the business carried on at the time of completion . |
23 | 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 . |
24 | 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 . |
25 | This ladder may be either caught in at the beginning by transferring the ladder stitch to the adjacent needle OR the stitch can be run down as you work and picked up and reversed after the cable is finished to form a purl stitch on the right side . |
26 | 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 . |
27 | The laibon simply looks down at the floor of the boma . |
28 | The grubby face of a young boy , not more than ten summers in age , peered down at the speaker through the tangled mass of overgrown shrubbery atop a high stone wall . |
29 | Francis stopped and peered down at the complex of buildings . |
30 | A similar directive covering public works contracts over £3.5 million is scheduled to come in at the beginning of 1990 . |