Example sentences of "[adv prt] [verb] at the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Blaise Cendrars , the writer , saw Modigliani let fall a twenty-franc note one evening when a well-known pauper came in to sit at the next table . |
| 2 | Jack recently told us the plot of a 1951 Jane Wyman movie called The Blue Veil and we both broke down sobbing at the same point of the story and sobbed for minutes . |
| 3 | all of them thi Theakstons they were all and double , pound for double spirits they were by the pub what we stayed in stayed at the Black Bull at |
| 4 | If Dreadnought went on sinking at the present rate , in ten minutes the hole would n't be above the waterline , but below . |
| 5 | Jason Spiteri sped unhindered up the right in the seventh minute and prolific goalscorer Alan Brett ran through to connect at the near post , giving the keeper no chance . |
| 6 | Busacher snorted , drank , and wandered over to look at the long table which had been set up right down the centre of Willi 's big living room . |
| 7 | ‘ Buzzing , ’ he replied , turning the couchette over to get at the narrow bed . |
| 8 | It is important to note , before going on to look at the main body of legislation in detail , that prior to 1980 , when insider dealing first became a statutory offence ( by virtue of Part V of the 1980 Companies Act ) , the legislative means of curtailing the practice was limited to disclosure provisions contained in general companies legislation . |
| 9 | A girl who is very tall for her age may fear that she will go on growing at the same rate indefinitely , while a boy who is shorter than his mates of the same age may be afraid that he will be permanently undersized . |
| 10 | In that case , shopkeepers and manufacturers might be prepared to drop their profit margins , absorb the tax and go on selling at the same price . |
| 11 | It made him feel grown up sitting at the same table as real university students ; engineers and agricultural science students , law or medicine , they had all sat and studied around the Hegarty dining table while young Frank was working for his Intermediate and his Leaving Certificate . |
| 12 | Cardiff pushed Jimmy and the girl called Barbara after them , turning back to look at the ragged aperture through which the storm was venting its fury . |
| 13 | Blenning Bombers , er were these Bostons and Harvards they er quite a twin engine quite a wide wingspan and quite heavy for what they were , but as they were stripped down in , in the top hanger , and like I say a lot of stuff was salvaged from them , which was still good as they went out reconditioned at the other end . |
| 14 | Elsewhere , with many teachers engaged in the fifty mile protest , hundreds of youngsters used their day out to protest at the green line barrier separating Greek and Turkish communities . |
| 15 | I do n't suppose old Pope Leo the Tenth sat around gazing at the latest thing he 'd just commissioned from Michelangelo , for instance . |
| 16 | Town made all the running … but they kept on falling at the final hurdle in front of goal … |
| 17 | But every time he turned round to look at the black shape labouring after him he was confirmed in the suspicion that Islamic outfits were far sexier than boring old black-leather bras , split-crotch panties or steel suspenders . |
| 18 | did you carry on working at the same place ? |