Example sentences of "[noun] [adv prt] at the [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Under the stress of the All Blacks ' tackling Dewi Morris ' passing let the Lions down at the base of the scrum and his problems were transmitted to the other midfield backs . |
| 2 | For earwigs bend on molesting your chrysanthemums , wood-wool or hay stuffed into a small flowerpot hung upside down at the top of a cane offers a similarly unsafe and temporary lodging . |
| 3 | Vass cast a quick glance down at the file of drawings , then raised his eyes to hers again , their expression brittle . |
| 4 | Er but I am going to take your books in at the end of the lesson so you can perhaps take the last few minutes before just if you 'll just erm put the sums at the moment erm just fix in your sheet fix it in and erm check out that you 've got everything else up to date okay ? |
| 5 | Women may have problems keeping weight down at the time of the menopause and after , and men and businesswomen have their own difficulties if their work involves a good deal of sitting at a desk or car wheel , and giving or receiving hospitality lunches . |
| 6 | He said slowly and dangerously , ‘ I daresay I might have been four bob down at the end of an evening . |
| 7 | Continued attack on the upstream sides of spurs and enlargement of the meander leads to a tendency for a break through at the neck of the spur , as it becomes thin ( Fig. 9.12A ) . |
| 8 | If you 're worried about electricity bills , turn the monitor off at the end of the day . |
| 9 | I used to tap dance , high kick , do splits , pull my legs up at the back of my head . |
| 10 | ‘ Hepzibah said it was just like putting a light out at the end of a day . ’ |
| 11 | For instance on page 57 of the status report , we read : ‘ If equilibrium had not yet been fully established by the time of the switch back at the end of 1979 , then later equilibrium state Pb-206/Pb-207 ratios would presumably be lower than those seen in 1979 . |
| 12 | She swished the dregs around at the bottom of her can . |
| 13 | Grant casts his eyes around at the casualties of a drink-based evening albeit mainly non-alcoholic , and demurs , seeing that mild hysteria has set in . |
| 14 | And then you put a return in at the end of that and it goes back to the margin again . |
| 15 | He let us muck around but we had to get the work in at the end of the week . ’ |
| 16 | Erm , again in my experience the a any additional material usually runs from the close of the enquiry , and I 'm well aware of of the turning up at the end of the enquiry . |
| 17 | ‘ There 's a portrait up at the Hall of a woman wearing a lovely dress , ’ Constance told her mother , as they were both sewing in the drawing room . |
| 18 | The Legal & General share price was nearly 700% up at the end of last year . |
| 19 | ‘ The parents do not get the same child back at the end of this trip , ’ says Dreamflight co-founder Pat Pearce . |
| 20 | J.B. Leishman 's translation reads : What the translation misses here is the distinctive highlighting effect of the repeated non , and the focus on at the end of a line : " " not lineage , not eloquence , not righteousness shall restore you . " " |
| 21 | If you send all those er bits and pieces in at the end of the week we just ask you and you most people do n't get this wrong . |
| 22 | Possible options are shown by two films in At The Edge Of The World , a season of weird stuff from the US film and video underground currently on regional tour . |
| 23 | Grindlewood , built in the Palladian style , turned its nose up at the rest of us with its columns and porticoes and pilasters . |
| 24 | It comes as some surprise , therefore , to hear one of the men likely to benefit turning his nose up at the prospect of winning a ‘ cheap cap ’ . |
| 25 | I enjoyed the work there — dealing with customers on the phone — there were two of us girls … the other girl was in charge and we had a man over us , but it was between us two … we had to get all the statements out at the end of the month … |
| 26 | This enabled him to look forward with confidence to continued improvements which would put the British plants back at the top of the performance league , where they used to be , and where they belonged . |
| 27 | He swept the ball in at the end of a typical flowing Ipswich move . |
| 28 | She writes about her country home : ‘ The old toad is rolling his drum down at the foot of the hill , and the crunch , crunch of the cows is near to my window over the barbecue . |
| 29 | We 'll go the other way down to the superstore because there 's traffic lights down at the end of our road . |
| 30 | Nor yet the immense Catacombs down at the base of the fortress-monastery , where heroes ancient and modern lay in ranks of caskets . |