Example sentences of "[to-vb] [adv] at the [noun sg] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Its regulated , preventive surveillance features , in practice meant ‘ moving on ’ those civilians who dared to stand idly at the street corner . |
| 2 | Often George came in at five o'clock in the morning to hammer away at the pirate ship in the carpenter 's shop . |
| 3 | I 've planned me route , I 'm going down the M six , I need to come off at the spaghetti junction whatever it is , and I 'm going to check me clock and I 'm going allow plenty of time to get there . |
| 4 | At the very last minute Nessie handed the pig bucket to Tim , who was sitting at the back with Kevin and the children ready to jump off at the road end . |
| 5 | If I increase the bubbles in the column they just seem to come out at the water inlet holes at the water surface . |
| 6 | If they say we 've got to pay it , well then I 'll have to come back at the council meeting . |
| 7 | Oxygen depletion causes fish to gulp strongly at the water surface . |
| 8 | 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 ’ . |
| 9 | On the way to my next appointment with Denis King , a piano and some Joyce Grenfell songs , I stopped at a nearby theatre to smile winsomely at the box office boys in the hope that they 'd recognize me , in spite of my Titian disguise , and sell me some tickets for their sell-out play . |
| 10 | ‘ Did you get a chance to look in at the side studio , when they were there last Friday ? |
| 11 | The log transformation was found to fit nicely at the zero position on the ladder of powers . |
| 12 | It therefore seems to be necessary to look carefully at the contract terms before deciding whether or not there is redundancy . |
| 13 | I urge all those considering the purchase of a house — including brand-new houses — to look carefully at the energy efficiency or otherwise of those dwellings . |
| 14 | If you like to look back at the cathedral office in an hour , I 'll see it 's ready for you . |
| 15 | FACED with the need for a quick method of raising revenue , the Chancellor must have been tempted to look closely at the energy sector in finalising plans for tomorrow 's Budget . |
| 16 | With particular regard to the interests of our client , other than taking an overview , we obviously have to look specifically at the southwest sector as a as a possible location . |
| 17 | That 's why she would sometimes sign the order over to me so that I could put it through my account — otherwise she had to queue up at the post office , as I said . ’ |
| 18 | When there is port bias on the line you will rarely need to start right at the pin end . |
| 19 | It would be advisable to build in at the planning stage something which would create a need for co-operation on the new planet . |
| 20 | It is not enough to switch off at the mains supply . |
| 21 | It is not enough to switch off at the mains supply or at the project 's on/off switch . |
| 22 | ‘ As I hold a season ticket I had no occasion to call in at the booking office . |
| 23 | On a day-to-day social basis the kennel staff , all of whom have to live in at the training centre , interact closely with the students . |
| 24 | Saturday was the one day on which he seemed to arrive early at the Herald office , but she doubted whether he would have got there yet . |
| 25 | Whether or not this constitutional tug of war is resolved by the proposed referendum on presidential powers in April — indeed whether anyone will get around to formulating questions for it , or persuading the battle scarred citizenry to turn up at the ballot box — are still matters of obsessive speculation . |
| 26 | WAC 's most elaborate ruse to date was to turn up at the Republican convention in Houston and install batch after batch of 20-by-60-foot high feminist slogans ( designed by Anderson , Kruger et al ) which greeted Bush 's nearest and dearest as they exited from the convention . |
| 27 | ‘ The point is , ’ said Dyson , thumping the car down into second to slow up at the traffic lights , ‘ a journalist ought to be specializing by the time he 's forty . |
| 28 | It 's all the the sycophants used to hang round at the school gate |
| 29 | Since many negotiations seem to break down at the implementation stage it is often worth making a prior commitment to monitor progress jointly and to meet again shortly after implementation is supposed to start . |
| 30 | Eurotunnel , where fears of another refinancing continued to eat away at the share price , and MEPC stood out as the only Footsie stocks to fall , off 1 at 402p and 2 at 286p respectively . |