Example sentences of "[be] [verb] [adv prt] at the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They must have been filled in at the bank either by Mr Hatton himself or else by the cashier who was attending to him . ’ |
| 2 | The applause from the crowd round the green must have been heard back at the clubhouse . |
| 3 | Two days of high-level bilateral talks , held in Madrid , the Spanish capital , on Feb. 14-15 , ended in an agreement signed by the United Kingdom and Argentina to restore full diplomatic relations , which had been broken off at the beginning of the Falklands ( Malvinas ) war in April 1982 . |
| 4 | Most significantly , and as far as most English observers were concerned most ominously , diplomatic relations with Rome which had been broken off at the Reformation were now restored . |
| 5 | Talks in Rome were reported on Feb. 1 to have been broken off at the end of January by the South African-backed rebel Mozambique National Resistance ( MNR or Renamo ) which accused the government of violating the ceasefire agreement signed on Dec. 1 . |
| 6 | Relations with Iraq had been broken off at the time of the 1967 Arab-Israeli war and US diplomatic business in Baghdad was handled by a US Interests section at the Belgian embassy ( headed by the author of an authoritative work on Kurdish affairs , William Eagleton Jnr ) . |
| 7 | Beaumont bought Jodami cheaply in Ireland for Yorkshire businessman John Yeadon after the horse had been broken in at the Curragh as a four-year-old . |
| 8 | The following steps are carried out at the planning stage : |
| 9 | But you 've also got that that that you notice well down the erm the expenditure on a project , that you 're gon na have to have to go back and change something that should have been sorted out at the start . |
| 10 | Erm I think they thought they 'd been let down at the end of it . |
| 11 | Glancing at his watch , Donaldson saw that it was after five ; seven hours since he 'd been picked up at the courtroom , during which time he 'd skipped lunch and spent his afternoon handing tidbits to a bright primate . |
| 12 | ( There are also references in the body of the text , some of which are picked up at the end of the chapter . ) |
| 13 | He had come down to the Club that night with a real purpose , a purpose only half of which had been carried out at the meeting . |
| 14 | It is also particularly difficult to discover your place in a speech after you have been looking up at the audience . |
| 15 | If gaunt-face had been looking up at the Clubroom windows in the hope of seeing Filmer — or of Filmer seeing him — maybe Filmer would come down to talk to him and maybe I could photograph them both together , which might one day prove useful . |
| 16 | The draft timetable will have been decided on at the sale strategy stage and will be to an extent a function of the marketing process chosen . |
| 17 | ‘ It 's the way they 're gathered in at the top , Sergeant . ’ |
| 18 | They were the sorts of contacts that you have when you 're signing on at the Employment Benefits Office , when you 're going to a job interview erm and often these are very negative because the experience of signing on is n't a very pleasant experience at all ; most job interviews , unfortunately , end with a rejection erm so a lot of these non-routine contacts were quite negatives ones for people . |
| 19 | Cos er , Mark last week said er , he 'd been approached by a wedding to do a disco , he said well I ca n't it 's a Saturday , and then he said well , you know , where are you having the reception , said well we 're looking round at the moment . |
| 20 | They 're looking up at the sign board , and holding each other 's hand . |
| 21 | ‘ In fact , we 're staying on at the end of this trip to do the world cruise . ’ |
| 22 | Yeah , they 're moving out at the end of this month . |
| 23 | And often you forget , and your brain flies off somewhere to do something else , I fancied that bird last night , God the beer 's rough in that bloody hotel , I wonder what that , I wonder how they 're doing up at the depot ? |
| 24 | Then then there 's er what 's the name what 's the woman they 're working on at the minute this lot the |
| 25 | It 's just something which is so big , that for the problem we 're working on at the moment , you 'd be there forever , or you 'd be there from here to the moon or something . |
| 26 | Pack some clothes , and whatever you need to finish the illustrations you 're working on at the moment , then we 'll leave . ’ |
| 27 | Right , erh what I 'd like to do then is er I say could you just introduce yourself or what you 're working on at the moment where you work and then the sort of presentations that you make er and then give us one of your objectives so that by the time we 've got right round the room we 'll er hopefully have everybody . |
| 28 | Still , I suppose you would have to develop a certain detachment , otherwise you 'd never be able to carry on with what you 're working on at the moment . ’ |
| 29 | He says that the one they 're working on at the moment has bodies which appear to have been buried in a great hurry . |
| 30 | After hearing so much about objects and Oracle Version 8.0 — object prototyping work has been going on at the firm since 1988 — at the moment it does n't look as though Oracle will create a separate object-oriented database product , although Oracle 's object guru , David Beech , believes it may eventually make marketing sense to do so . |