Example sentences of "[vb -s] [verb] [adv prt] at [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The only technical challenge of the day is at the home of a lawyer , whose Peugeot 405 has conked out at the bottom of a steep drive . |
| 2 | An oil painting worth £12,000 and which was nicked from the Marquess of Bute in 1987 , has turned up at a car boot sale . |
| 3 | A nature garden has sprung up at a Bootle school where youngsters once had to play out in gas masks because of coaldust clouds . |
| 4 | I 'm the one who makes sure food gets in one end and I 'm the one who has to clear up at the other . |
| 5 | man has hit out at a health survey which he claims is insulting and highly personal . |
| 6 | Michael Fallon , who is defending Darlington for the Tories , has hit out at the surcharge of £19 on poll tax bills which have already gone out . |
| 7 | Wheelchair-bound Ethlyn Whittaker , aged 56 , from Great Sankey , Warrington , has started a campaign against the means test forms , and has hit out at the charges set to be introduced in October . |
| 8 | A NURSE who had to learn to walk again after his neck was broken has hit out at the prison sentence given to his attacker . |
| 9 | The death toll has worked out at the equivalent of seven a week since the two companies responsible for investing £190million in government securities went into liquidation last June . |
| 10 | HIGH TECHNOLOGY has taken over at the Port Everglades power station , run by the Florida Light and Power Company . |
| 11 | Although it might be a temptation to say hot air , because you do put hot air in , but it says goes in at the top of the furnace . |
| 12 | Applicants are asked to send : an up-to-date c.v. , a sample of major and recent publications , a statement of the research the candidate proposes to carry out at the EUI ( not more than 5–10 pages ) , names and addresses of two referees , an indication of his/her knowledge of languages . |
| 13 | The chance of anyone coming this early is remote , but when one car does rumble by at the end of the road , we both slip into his doorway and stand silent and still . |
| 14 | Well it 's fastened off at the back is n't it ? |
| 15 | But I mean he 's sucked in at the minute with Linda cos she wants him to put his money with her as well you see . |
| 16 | I 'm saying everything 's turned off at the moment , alright ? |
| 17 | No , you know you know as you 're going down the corridor before you get to the doors to go down the next set of stairs , I mean in O S D , the last one is er for the P C that does all the man er you know all the duties and things like that , and in his office there 's a great big board with all the vehicles on , and the key 's hung up at the end and who 's got 'em out , and the bottom one is that green van , because he went up and picked 'em up , when I was there . |
| 18 | It relates to that other world , the great shabby confusion outside these walls to which I return each evening , to Timmy and Cheryl , to my mother-in-law who comes to help out at the weekends , to everything unresolved and unsatisfactory . |
| 19 | And as he 's driven up at the back then he looked up and he said you ca you could see daylight through it so it was , was n't blocked by anything . |
| 20 | I would say that the criteria that 's that 's sent out at the moment is is far too strict for the lot , a lot of women and at the moment you 're expected to be skeletal , whereas th , you can very well be thirteen stone and anorexic it 's , it depends on your attitude towards food . |
| 21 | And they say , you know , ev even in apparently wealthy families , er , you know , because the way the money 's divided up at the end of the week , or the end of the month or whatever , that that , the no the child benefit money 's all , all the woman gets . |