Example sentences of "[noun] [adv prt] at the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | I heard Mr Loveitt say summat like it with his own lips , and the landlord down at the Seven Stars . ’ |
| 32 | I nearly always won , as I remember ; and as we left the club or the hall I would make quite a show of hailing a taxi , offering to drop Julian off at the nearest tube . |
| 33 | Taking a deep breath , she managed a cool smile up at the enigmatic face above her , and took brutal control of her wayward emotions . |
| 34 | Tony Donaldson had rearranged his visits and his work schedule back at the Social Services department so that he would have most of the day free to serve as Mrs Balanchine 's interpreter . |
| 35 | THE McCloskey clan from Bangor have pencilled in May 1 for a family day out at the Bass Cup Final . |
| 36 | The bill had arrived just before our fifth wedding anniversary , celebrated with a rare night out at the Working Men 's Club with my in-laws and Pam and her first husband , Gordon . |
| 37 | A city where the fringe theatre meant Jim Haynes , Charles Marovitz , and a few other expatriates from across the Atlantic , and avant-garde cinema a night out at the 35-year-old Academy in Oxford Street . |
| 38 | After several more sessions out in the country , Hoomey got the hand of it , and learned that , even if he could n't stop , he could steer , and that sitting on Bones 's enormous flights through the atmosphere was comparatively easy once you got used to it , far easier than poor Jazz 's problem of trying to stay aboard when Spot , cantering quite easily towards the jump , put his anchors out at the last minute and stopped dead . |
| 39 | Cold swimmers demanded their money back at the new Ponteland Leisure Centre after claiming the water was too cold . |
| 40 | At Birlik ( Unity ) , a radical nationalist movement , they are forced to camp out at the decrepit Writers ' Union building , where rotting rubbish is piled high in the corridor . |
| 41 | pending discussions but the whole thing Mr chairman really has n't erm has n't been decided to you know er a few colleagues point er I mean there 's nothing we can actually start and you can put pencil to paper on at the present time . |
| 42 | At present , another member commented , " we have been driving with the accelerator full down and the brake on at the same time " . |
| 43 | The pondkeeper in me said : ‘ Fifty quid down at the aquatic centre ’ . |
| 44 | The moment for which Archie will always be remembered by Palace fans was when he scored our fourth and conclusive goal after a marvellous run from the centre-circle to defeat the FA Cup-holders , Wolves ( 4–2 ) in a thrilling replay up at the old Crystal Palace in January 1909 . |
| 45 | What matters is the difference between the time taken by cumulative selection , and the time which the same computer , working flat out at the same rate , would take to reach the target phrase if it were forced to use the other procedure of single-step selection : about a million million million million million years . |
| 46 | Late on , County replaced the striker Gary McDonald with Mark Howard , who might have scored from his first kick , shooting wide five yards out at the far post . |
| 47 | ‘ You and Ratagan could take one out tomorrow , stay for a few days and have a look around at the western fiefs . |
| 48 | Fully flexible or ‘ soft ’ , it has excellent lifting power , taking air in at the leading edge to assume a wing section which is retained by multiple shroud lines . |
| 49 | ‘ I felt I did everything right , like the simple things of making the right contact , but I was striking it into the wind and it seemed to tail off at the last minute . ’ |
| 50 | According to chitchat out at the recent SunWorld Expo in California , initial versions of the 32-bit superscalar part are expected produce 100 SPECmarks , and if everything goes well , then it 'll reportedly be closer to the 200 SPECmark range . |
| 51 | Honour having been saved , I for one was certainly not going to argue but , just for good measure , I hurled a few more insults back at the towering colossus who was marching towards us . |
| 52 | Nobody knew how to run the longer events , the advice we were given being the same as that I had pontificated for 80 metres back at the White City : start slowly and build up ! |
| 53 | Next there 's the paintball gun equivelant of a shoot out at the OK coral . |
| 54 | Just er wh when you put an , when you put an each way bet , you put two bets on at the same time . |
| 55 | Even when she was too tired to read she sought escape in romance-cubes she spent all her wages on at the Madreidetic shop . |
| 56 | He snarled with fear and pointed the revolver down at the white blur of the face and fired — |
| 57 | Despite Austen 's soothing reply , Salvidge took the matter up at the next meeting of the Executive , when he demanded whether or not Leith had been satisfied with Austen 's reply . |
| 58 | To get her into a routine , I started leaving food out at the same time and place every day , always whistling the same tune , so that she would associate it with being fed . |
| 59 | Deception was another of the subjects that they knew rather a lot about at the Foreign Office . |
| 60 | That 's the Stamford Bridge in East Yorkshire not the one which gives David Mellor a stork on at the mere mention of the place . |