Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [adv prt] at the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Guests are often late and rarely sit down at the table on time . |
| 2 | She could almost imagine the door opening and Isabelle coming in to sit down at the dressing-table with its pretty antique tortoiseshell and silver toilet set , humming softly as she loved to do . |
| 3 | With only three minutes remaining in their Sharwood 's Irish Senior Cup semi-final clash against Pegasus , Sinead , who had only come on at the start of the second-half , popped up to score the only goal of the game . |
| 4 | In fact it seemed that at that time ( early 1977 ) sexual examination had become common practice at Heathrow Immigration Department , apparently carried out at the whim of the officials . |
| 5 | He only glances up at the television occasionally , as he is intent on finishing these as quickly as possible in order to give himself ti me to write a letter home to his wife . |
| 6 | Nothing is more infuriating than reading about something that appeals to you , only to find out at the end that you are not eligible . |
| 7 | It was the last day of shooting and they did n't need us till nine o'clock that morning , so Keenan [ Wynn ] and me went over to the bar and had a couple there and I said , ‘ You know , Keenan , it 's gon na be a long hot day so we 'd better stop off at the drug store and buy a jug . ’ |
| 8 | In several European countries there were disclosures during November concerning clandestine anti-communist units , apparently set up at the height of the Cold War in the 1950s and intended to lie dormant for activation in the event of a communist takeover . |
| 9 | It is not enough to switch off at the mains supply . |
| 10 | It is not enough to switch off at the mains supply or at the project 's on/off switch . |
| 11 | The skinhead style , for all its apparent knuckleheadedness , is a consciously held pose , a deliberate turning back to earlier , more certain times when men were men and girls stuck by their blokes through thick and thin , a time when an observer could tell an individual 's social status by merely glancing down at the footwear or at the way a person walked . |
| 12 | In summary , I am looking for a jacket which is wind and water proof , breathable , looks respectable enough to turn up at the office in , and offers conspicuity . |
| 13 | He had n't rung to make an appointment , better to turn up at the door and press the bell like any other cheapskate private detective . |
| 14 | Yeah , I 'll have it in a minute I 'm all glued up at the moment . |
| 15 | Prickett , a former captain of the Wanderers , has been warmly welcomed back at the Memorial Grounds . |
| 16 | Er but again y'know I could in theory provide some handouts for you which you could perhaps pick up at the end of the er of the lecture from the front or even have available in a general office for you , okay ? |
| 17 | That is , people tend to forget either in a motivated way , or accidentally , people will tend to minimise or trivialise the abuse to which they 've been subject in some cases because maybe saying that you 've been sexually abused as a child and that is why you 're so screwed up at the moment um that 's not necessarily a very self-benefiting thing to say . |
| 18 | There was a woman standing at one of the second-storey windows when Gentle reached the intersection , just gazing out at the street . |
| 19 | Building on the work of the Japan Industrial Studies Programme already carried out at the Policy Studies Institute , the aim is to find out how Japanese managers , especially those in companies that are competing in the British market , see marketing and how they succeed in putting their strategies into effect . |
| 20 | When an echo from a distant object finally arrives back at the bat , it will be an " older " echo than an echo that is simultaneously arriving back from a near object . |
| 21 | The judge was told that although the girl 's father was due to appear in court as a witness , he had not turned up at the hearing because the couple now planned to marry . |
| 22 | But a bowler who does not break down at the end of every other over and who can finish each season with an average around the 25 mark would be worth his weight in gold now . |
| 23 | Here she was , without Simon , sitting peacefully looking out at the view . |
| 24 | When I finally arrived back at the Bible Room , headvoice was giving me unmerciful stick : |
| 25 | They are not going in at the moment but that does n't worry me because he is a smashing lad doing the right things again . |
| 26 | A grey car , immaculately clean , was just pulling up at the gate and a big man in a plain grey suit was getting out to open it . |
| 27 | She had n't got this far nor worked this hard just to give up at the thought of some sort of opposition . |
| 28 | So just jot down at the side of the page the other eleven names in the room okay everybody 's Tony , Mike , Jeff , Sarah , Bob , Rob , Gordon , John , Tom , Joanne , Mike Dave . |
| 29 | Just getting up at the start of the day without complaining , is an achievement . |
| 30 | Yeah well what happens if you just get in at the end of your or a at the time before they change the band , the colours ? |