Example sentences of "[noun] [adv] at the [noun] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So there was that allocation of system design responsibility right at the outset and that determined who would write the specification for what . |
| 2 | Citadel : VII , 8 on the other hand , has excellent protection but is long and sustained with the crux right at the top when abseil retreat is both difficult and uninviting . |
| 3 | ‘ I did n't explain the rules properly at the outset so it 's only fair we should start again … ’ |
| 4 | And as often happens , United were so committed to attack , that they left the drawbridge down at the back and Lemon scored another in the last minute to make it Hereford 1 ; Chesterfield 3 . |
| 5 | There was some attempt by friends of Highlander to purchase some of the books etc. at the auction but the buildings and most of the moveable assets were lost . |
| 6 | Violet pulled her mouth down at the corners and shrugged her skinny shoulders . |
| 7 | One thin , ring-studded hand held the skirt up at the front but the back went trail , trail , trail on the ground , sweeping up wisps of hay with the feathers . |
| 8 | Grandad , who had been reading his paper , said , ‘ Eh , I 'd like to help with the cleaning but you see I promised Angus up at the farm that I 'd help him with the lambs today . ’ |
| 9 | It was only when Dexter parked the car back at the Yard that they noticed in the paintwork of the boot two long , deep scratches . |
| 10 | He saw her glance across at the table and followed her gaze to the brandy bottle . |
| 11 | I can remember once being told by a karate teacher that the trick of breaking planks of wood with the edge of your hand was to aim your blow not at the planks but about six inches below them . |
| 12 | There was this scene right at the end where the woman lights a cigarette after she 's left the gas on the cooker on and everything goes up in an explosion ; and then in the very next advert there was a car driving through a field , and the whole field went up in a sheet of flame . |
| 13 | Eleanor was nearly twice the age he felt he deserved , and it had been his ambition for a long time to have a girl just at the point when it became legal . |
| 14 | Poor Jasper happened to be curled up asleep some five feet away at the time and was rudely awakened . |
| 15 | The First Test in Sydney was a rusty performance with the backline 's cohesion missing during the first half before the dominance of the Wallaby forwards at the scrum and line-out took control in the second half to enable them to pile on 20 points and quickly reverse the 9–7 half-time deficit . |
| 16 | On other days , he tended to have lunch either at the Reform or at the Oxford and Cambridge Club ; to judge by his correspondence , there were few occasions when he happened to be " free " and he was forced to arrange regular times in order to see close friends like Herbert Read . |
| 17 | A team led by CCG 's Alison Harvey won the annual petanque challenge match with Glasgow-based catering suppliers Autobar Scotland recently at the Birds and Bees pub in Bridge of Allan . |
| 18 | If you decide to exercise at home ( and there are many programmes and routines on tape , in magazines and in books ) remember to start slowly and build up gradually , following the warming-up exercise faithfully at the beginning and end of the programme . |
| 19 | Before they left the camp he had seen the hides of the bull and its calf scraped clean of all life , suspended like limp black rags in the drying tent ; their white , eyeless skulls were hanging close by , and he felt a sense of desolation suddenly at the thought that he was responsible . |
| 20 | I met and married my husband just at the point when I was beginning to apply for senior registrar posts . |
| 21 | Connor had his back to her , stretching up then stooping down to slide the bolts home at the top and bottom of the front door , but he said nothing . |
| 22 | Explanations both at the time and later have tended to point to assumptions about the lower needs of women , irrespective of the work they were doing . |
| 23 | Oh yes , yes , no , I think I think that er and I think that you know that particularly the the Mirror Group Newspapers Trustees doing a doing an excellent job you know , but we have n't really got into the into the stock lending er arrangements , but the , the cases those I think are particularly you know important to us you see , because there is a there 's another hundred and fifty nine or a hundred and fifty three million I think of , of writs out at the moment and those I think are the ones where we 're going to really see whether the , the banks dig their heels in or not , you know , I think we 've , we 're rea very early stage , but basically I mean we 've still got eighty , getting on for eighty per cent of the missing monies still missing and we 're into our third , third year . |
| 24 | ‘ There are about 16 places here at the moment but most of them are already booked . |
| 25 | His shirt was casually unbuttoned at the chest , the trousers high at the waist and tight about his hips . |
| 26 | As you climb through the trap door look carefully at the frame and joists around the opening — this is a common place for woodworm . |
| 27 | Erm no , well have a look up at the back and see if you can see anything . |
| 28 | no , he 's good it was funny there was some can can dancers on at the end and there were sort of ladies in their sixties and he joined them |
| 29 | Under the Bush administration , State Department officials met the delegates only at the beginning and end of each round . |
| 30 | Why did n't we just check things in at the beginning and check things out at the end ? |