Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] [adv prt] at the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | ‘ Nevertheless , Mrs Atkins , I would appreciate it if you could answer a few questions down at the station … ’ |
| 3 | But she and Matthew had had so many cold steely little tussles these last few weeks over so many small things — like the panelling in the hall and cutting some trees down at the side of the house which she said darkened the drawing-room and which he had gone berserk about — that Sara did not feel she could be obstructive again . |
| 4 | Amplifiers shoot down the ramps like runaway trains , as they throw resentful glances over at the cars . |
| 5 | Then a few soldiers up at the goods store fired into their own men . ’ |
| 6 | There are some very clever adverts out at the moment |
| 7 | These are nervous times down at the Manor Ground . |
| 8 | He did a further two years ' apprenticeship at Covent Garden , and then six years back at the Arts Council in finance department . |
| 9 | Like all scientific findings , mine are actually nothing but readings on meters , printouts on papers , numbers derived from machines ( nothing but pointer-readings , the positivist philosopher and physicist Ernst Mach called such observations back at the beginning of this century ) , which I manipulate to extract meaning and which I then endeavour to extrapolate back to stand for , to represent , deductions about the behaviour of molecules , cells and organisms in the real world . |
| 10 | So if these beggars up at the top it was had been er thought out had a break well er it was alri =right for the others working down in the bottom to have a a break . |
| 11 | Sorry I could n't get some basic staples up at the house for your arrival . |
| 12 | Pointing at the three musclemen positioned outside his HQ 's entrance , he added : ‘ We 'd be stupid not to have these guys around at the moment . ’ |
| 13 | Er minding motors outside the Arms and the Bridge Hotel every night , maybe only get sixpence or sevenpence cos there was n't that many cars about at the time . |
| 14 | You can always grow it back and there are some great wigs around at the moment . |
| 15 | Lily said he was wasting his money , and he was ; they were all papists down at the Bridewell . |
| 16 | Ten feet up at the threshold the throttles are closed and a token flare made almost incredibly close to the tarmac — the sensation of speed quite exhilarating at 120 knots and two feet — when the soft , forgiving kneeling-knuckle undercarriage absorbs any small residual descent-rate to give a smooth gentle touchdown . |
| 17 | Once we 've got those tiles off at the bottom there |
| 18 | Luke Harvey put Katabatic under strong pressure , but never looked likely to make up the leeway and was five lengths down at the finish . |
| 19 | Nor yet the immense Catacombs down at the base of the fortress-monastery , where heroes ancient and modern lay in ranks of caskets . |
| 20 | The so-called big men up at the top do n't care about us . |
| 21 | Since 15 million years is a very short period in terms of evolution , we have to conclude that there were some big whales around at the time of the catastrophe . |
| 22 | Life member Laurie Lee was invariably on the boundary to give his vocal backing during a match , and then add to the convivial post-mortems back at the Butcher 's or his own local at Slad , the Woolpack . |
| 23 | Then , after a while without having stolen anything , they 'll leave , pausing only to stick two fingers up at the store detective on the way out , ’ he says . |
| 24 | Paul Gascoigne is also troubled by a cold , but he trained yesterday afternoon and , apart from Platt , it is only Batty and Dixon who are real concerns , and Taylor added : ‘ I know I may have to look at bringing another right-back and a midfielder , but I am keeping my fingers crossed about Dixon because there are no other right-backs around at the moment . ’ |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | ‘ There are one or two things on at the moment , ’ he said . |
| 27 | The guitars also had some of the thinnest necks , the lowest , fastest frets and the best vibratos around at the time . |
| 28 | Besides the three people trying to catch Angalo there were two humans up at the front . |
| 29 | Lauren , 29 , says : ‘ More business would come here if we had a proper exhibition and conference centre and the right facilities out at the airport . ’ |
| 30 | From down on deck , the cliffs rise up to the sky , quite blotting out the sun ; from 400 feet up at the viewing platform on Contractors Hill the passing tramps , container vessels and car carriers look like toys . |