Example sentences of "[vb infin] [adv] at [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | The alarm may go off at the wrong times and this can be very irritating but the fault can be capitalized on and the child encouraged to get up and go to the lavatory anyway . |
| 32 | 1 am , Bath : As in Richmond and Barnes , there are few Labour voters left in Bath for the Liberal Democrats to squeeze and Chris Patten , clinging to a majority of only 1,412 , hopes Labour 's vote will go up at the Liberal Democrats ' expense . |
| 33 | As with all hill climbing , a BM may end up at a local minimum . |
| 34 | ‘ Look , May , ’ he said , ‘ if you 're not careful you 'll end up at the funny farm the way you 're going on . ’ |
| 35 | Public money will be used to lend up to £420 a year to students in full-time higher education , which they will pay back at an inflation-linked rate of interest . |
| 36 | Though no match for Gaelstrom and Now Your Talkin , he was running on well into third at the end , and in receipt of 20lbs from Highland Spirit should go well at a big price . |
| 37 | Indeed , as a general problem , it is unlikely that two divisions will arrive amicably at a suitable transfer price . |
| 38 | RANGERS ' second match in the ‘ mini-league ’ European Cup stages , against CSKA Moscow , is to be switched from Santander , Spain , and will probably go ahead at a German venue to another venue , probably in Germany , on December 9 . |
| 39 | All finalists will stay overnight at the luxurious Langham Hilton Hotel , 1c Portland Place , London W1N 3AA ( 071–636 1000 ) . |
| 40 | Another thing , perhaps , we should notice right at the very beginning is that Jesus did n't actually speak in pa , in in er , in chapters , and they 've lost , they 've been put in for our convenience , and chapter fifteen is not the beginning of a new incident Jesus had already been speaking to the people , he had been teaching them in chapter fourteen . |
| 41 | Admission rates were £4 for adults , £concessionary , with further concessionary rates of £10 for a family ( 2+2 ) and a ‘ bring a pensioner ’ scheme whereby anyone bringing a pensioner ( or a child ) could get in at the concessionary rate . |
| 42 | Just turn everything up , ’ and I said to the drummer , ‘ Get out there and start drumming the intro to Hot For Teacher and I 'll come in at the appropriate moment . ’ |
| 43 | There 's been talk of seventeen and a half per cent being added to food , to public transport and to books and its now believed that VAT on domestic fuel , which was to have been introduced in stages may come in at the full rate in the spring . |
| 44 | That way , unless I 've really laid it on thick , I can get along at a cracking pace . |
| 45 | A rhetorical approach would point directly at the argumentative nature of racist discourse . |
| 46 | Do come home at the agreed time ; if you 're going to be unavoidably late , ring your babysitter and let her know . |
| 47 | I thought I should go mad if my brother did not come home at the appointed hour , for I longed to thrust it into his hands . |
| 48 | I mean , it does come out at the other end very soon afterwards . |
| 49 | The Bank is considering the view of the IBOA to their proposals on Job Sharing and will revert back at an early date . |
| 50 | In other words , without it one can not explain why at the present time there is a maldistribution of world wealth and income such that the countries of the Northern hemisphere contain only 25 per cent of the world 's population but obtain 80 per cent of the world 's income , while the countries of the South contain 75 per cent of the world 's population but obtain only 20 per cent of the world 's income . |
| 51 | In reality , individuals may not be able to borrow and lend freely at a given interest rate . |
| 52 | ( A cannonball fired upward from the earth will be slowed down by gravity and will eventually stop and fall back ; a photon , however , must continue upward at a constant speed . |
| 53 | A level-top , apart from its looking well , was emphasized for a good economic reason : if the ploughland was level , the drill coulters would bite in at an uniform depth , and sow the seed in the same way ; the ears of corn would then mature at approximately the same time and all the seeds of corn would be approximately the same size . |
| 54 | The suitcases I would check in at the left-luggage office at Paddington station , the bag could come with me to Rome , and Jane could inherit all my bits and bobs . |
| 55 | Or , or other benefits that would actually kick in at a certain point , er , of death , I mean obviously this would actually help at erm , diagnosis , and you 're writing into this , sort of to cover all of the things that we 're talking about , and they get that , and then they continue to live , the rest of your plans are all then thrown out are n't they , because you 've got all those things that you 've put into place for death , sorted out in the years before . |
| 56 | We 'll start down at the far end of what we call the lured mark and from there you 'll have to tack all the way up to this closest one , the windward mark . |
| 57 | These white athletes under such circumstances may start off at a psychological disadvantage . |
| 58 | But it is all too evident that there does not exist anywhere at the present time an active political movement which would be capable of initiating such a development , and if such a movement came into existence it would encounter immense difficulties . |
| 59 | The Jot 1.0 specification is designed to enable applications to share handwritten notes , sketches , signatures and other free-form data across the generality of computers from hand-held devices to mainframes , so that if someone scrawls a note and sends it over a modem , it will turn up at the other end as handwriting , regardless of the sending and receiving machines , provided only that they both implement Jot 1.0 . |
| 60 | People must turn up at the proverbial factory gates fresh , fit and ready to toil . |