Example sentences of "[noun] [adv prt] at [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And putting coals on at the far end . |
| 2 | Duncan reached up to hand Jamie his pint and I took mine , putting the money down at the same time . |
| 3 | Liberate , pacemaker for Alphabatim , took the field along at a strong gallop as far as the straight , a good half mile from home , where he fell back and allowed Commanche Run to take up the running . |
| 4 | Middleton finds Rocky on at the Mongolian flicks ; Vickers listens to Elvis and Buddy Holly on a Kazakh collective farm . |
| 5 | A MAN burgled a pub just a few weeks after he was caught with the proceeds from a break in at the same place . |
| 6 | England 's far-sighted youth development policy is now being matched by the selectors ' willingness to throw teenagers in at the deep end . |
| 7 | put a bid in at a certain price . |
| 8 | Say w when we would used to bring the the stock in at the Menai Bridge Fair , that was the twenty fourth of October . |
| 9 | The coach , from London , costs under £40 but the trains , actually taking longer , weight in at a hefty £68 . |
| 10 | Sales , 11 p.c. down at the interim stage , finished the year only 5 p.c. lower at I£292m . |
| 11 | She dropped a sulky David off at the Grand Hotel . |
| 12 | Ivo drew the car up at the front door , she pinned her hopes , rather desperately , she owned , on one very big , important fact . |
| 13 | All right the abbey is in ruins and I doubt whether that impotent old priest up at the Old Rectory has much on offer . |
| 14 | I made a booking for erm , two doubles and two singles for the seventh and eighth you 've sent me the confirmation out at the non-delegate price . |
| 15 | This was to involve the construction of a new Entrance Lock out at the main fairway into the Western Harbour and the fitting of large capacity pumping machinery to enable the total water area within the enclosed system to be maintained at an almost constant level . |
| 16 | When I was about twelve she told me how she 'd " flung " a sixpenny piece back at a titled woman who 'd given it her as a tip : " If you ca n't afford any more than that Madam , I suggest you keep it . " |
| 17 | Casting a despairing glance around at the stark walls of the interview-room in the police station , she took a deep unsteady breath . |
| 18 | Robert had said , with a nervous glance around at the other passengers . |
| 19 | I put Growmore fertiliser on at the same time as the compost and it seems to have no ill-effects . |
| 20 | An unpaid tax bill instilled fears into the companies who dealt with Red Rhino and everyone slapped their bills in at the same time . |
| 21 | By the time I find a room it 's too late to do anything except go out on to the balcony and gaze down at the still-warm street , the signs . |
| 22 | Believe me , it is not until you are standing with a bucket of icy water in one hand and a wet sponge in the other , looking twelve feet up at a grubby Beaver , that you start to appreciate just what a big aeroplane it is . |
| 23 | Watch your timing as you play this and make sure that you cut each chord off at the correct time . |
| 24 | Finally , even if all the factors mentioned so far are not influencing the cat , it may still turn its nose up at a particular dish of food . |
| 25 | A partial parasite , mistletoe relies on birds such as thrushes eating its oily berries and dropping the seeds out at the other end on to the branches of trees where they perch . |
| 26 | Good morning Vincent , I 'm enclosing copies of faxes received this morning from New Zealand , and certainly the rate quoted is more realistic , then drop down a line and put eighteen by two point nine five pounds , oblique kilo , equals fifty three pounds , ten pence , next line documentation , twenty pounds , next line customs clearance etcetera , thirteen New Zealand dollars , I 'd say Irish pounds , three point three , O , O equals nine pounds approximately and total it up , eighty two pounds , ten pence which is approximately a third less as you see David suggests you lean heavily on Air Lingus and point out at the same time that Challenge Seeds have no intention of paying this exorbitant rate , also what is a consolidation rate ? |
| 27 | Hilary , 48 , of Bath , Avon , won £8,000 compensation and her old job back at an industrial tribunal earlier this year , after a 15-month battle . |
| 28 | Forget it ’ the A A said , ‘ forget it ’ the police said , ‘ forget it ’ , everybody in the town said ‘ forget it , it 's hard enough to walk up ’ and we took the truck up at a bloody run . |
| 29 | The principle horrified hi-fi buffs when it was first announced , because it chopped the sound wave up at an ultrasonic rate and described each ‘ slice ’ as a binary number . |
| 30 | She had n't been privy to the goings on at the opposite end of the table , but she had a distinct , almost tactile memory of the girl fleeing , the usual calm repose of her features fractured . |