Example sentences of "[be] [verb] [verb] [adv prt] at the " in BNC.
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| 1 | In theatres all over the world performers are expected to turn up at the ‘ half ’ to start making up . |
| 2 | Although their dress was not equipped to deal with soaking weather and although they may have been expected to turn back at the sight of such greyness , they continued and even displayed some sense of enjoyment at the discomfort each was experiencing . |
| 3 | ‘ They 're going to come in at the far end . ’ |
| 4 | Once in a while at least , the philosopher must be allowed to approach the psychologist as a counsellor and to say : if you leave the Sorbonne by the exit in the Rue Saint-Jacques , you can either turn up the hill or go down towards the river : if you go up , you will get to the Panthéon which is the resting place of a few great men , but if you go downhill then you 're bound to end up at the Préfecture de Police . |
| 5 | I have n't enjoyed the last two years down there , but erm as I say , let's stick our necks out and say ‘ United are going to win down at the County ground ’ . |
| 6 | Members of his court such as Diane de Beauveau Craon , her stepmother Laure and certain editors are invited to sit in at the studio for a preview . |
| 7 | This card may be placed face up at the table edge or with the unit to indicate that it is affected . |
| 8 | BA is keeping its distance from attempts by Stephen Wolf and Jay Pritzker to revive the bidding consortium , but there are still hopes in the US that it could be persuaded to step in at the last minute to add weight to a new bid . |
| 9 | He said , ‘ I 'm going to pull in at the next layby . |
| 10 | His work led to the celebrated equation which bears his name , an equation which can be found written down at the start of every book on quantum mechanics . |
| 11 | ‘ In April , hundreds of runners can be found digging around at the back of the wardrobe , trying to find that old pair of track spikes . |
| 12 | I 'm sitting looking out at the darkness and the sea . |
| 13 | Six of the pupils have been allowed to stay on at the seven and a half thousand pounds a year school . |
| 14 | They are encouraged to speak up at the regular meetings for care assistants , which are held three times a week . |
| 15 | In the street below the house with the dome people were pausing to look up at the arrows in the spike . |
| 16 | They had taken refuge from the insects and the dew when sanity returned , and were lying gazing up at the stars . |
| 17 | You see , so these people were going to move in at the weekend so had to put a stop to that cos they had no authority to move in there until the solicitors try and get this thing sorted out . |
| 18 | EMPLOYEES at Springfields are being asked to help out at the site 's retired employees ' party on Friday , April 10 . |
| 19 | The Prince and McPhee had walked on to the top of the bank and were standing looking down at the river . |
| 20 | The servants were allowed to go out at the discretion of the matron and the house surgeon , and the house was to be locked up at 10 p.m . |
| 21 | A similar directive covering public works contracts over £3.5 million is scheduled to come in at the beginning of 1990 . |
| 22 | Our Jan 's getting fought over at the moment . |
| 23 | And I said he 's gon na do damage if he 's trying to get up at the door |
| 24 | He was intended to come down at the wrong moment , disappear , do the same again , then go shooting through the roof when the mechanics of the wire go wrong . |
| 25 | Then a car was heard pulling up at the gate ; either the bridal car or their uncle had come . |
| 26 | An 18-year-old woman post room worker escaped uninjured when the package she was handling went off at the offices which were occupied by SNP demonstrators last week . |
| 27 | When a colleague had some treatment , a tape was played and he was made to look up at the highest point of the ceiling . |
| 28 | Far more important was the fact that this baby girl , born two weeks after the defeat of a Scottish army by the English at Solway Moss , and at a time when her remarkable father James V was lying burnt out at the age of thirty in his glorious hunting-lodge at Falkland , was to be within a week of her birth queen of the Scots . |
| 29 | I did n't know quite where or how or with whom but I was going to turn in at the Gendarmerie and take it from there . |
| 30 | There was no way I was going to walk out at the end of all that . |