Example sentences of "[be] [verb] [to-vb] [adv prt] at [art] " 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 | 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 . |
| 8 | He said , ‘ I 'm going to pull in at the next layby . |
| 9 | Six of the pupils have been allowed to stay on at the seven and a half thousand pounds a year school . |
| 10 | They are encouraged to speak up at the regular meetings for care assistants , which are held three times a week . |
| 11 | In the street below the house with the dome people were pausing to look up at the arrows in the spike . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | EMPLOYEES at Springfields are being asked to help out at the site 's retired employees ' party on Friday , April 10 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | A similar directive covering public works contracts over £3.5 million is scheduled to come in at the beginning of 1990 . |
| 16 | And I said he 's gon na do damage if he 's trying to get up at the door |
| 17 | For ages he had been meaning to call in at a place down by the Elephant and Castle where they sold gramophone parts , but it was not until this morning that he had finally got around to it . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | When a colleague had some treatment , a tape was played and he was made to look up at the highest point of the ceiling . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | There was no way I was going to walk out at the end of all that . |
| 22 | Easing the car into first gear , she set off back along the road , a frown deepening on her face as she was forced to crawl along at a snail 's pace , unable to see more than a couple of feet ahead in the ever-thickening snow . |
| 23 | Falati was allowed to stay on at the house after the intervention of Mr Mandela . |
| 24 | And I got the book it must have a bus you know ano , another , an extra bus on because he was allowed to get off at the tonight . |
| 25 | The Fire was started to get back at a prisoner who had refused to take part in a food boycott . |
| 26 | He was across the road and halfway back down Fleet Street before it occurred to him that they had been staring at him like that because they thought he was trying to push in at the head of the queue . |