Example sentences of "[noun sg] [adv prt] at the [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | For earwigs bend on molesting your chrysanthemums , wood-wool or hay stuffed into a small flowerpot hung upside down at the top of a cane offers a similarly unsafe and temporary lodging . |
| 2 | Vass cast a quick glance down at the file of drawings , then raised his eyes to hers again , their expression brittle . |
| 3 | Women may have problems keeping weight down at the time of the menopause and after , and men and businesswomen have their own difficulties if their work involves a good deal of sitting at a desk or car wheel , and giving or receiving hospitality lunches . |
| 4 | Continued attack on the upstream sides of spurs and enlargement of the meander leads to a tendency for a break through at the neck of the spur , as it becomes thin ( Fig. 9.12A ) . |
| 5 | If you 're worried about electricity bills , turn the monitor off at the end of the day . |
| 6 | ‘ Hepzibah said it was just like putting a light out at the end of a day . ’ |
| 7 | For instance on page 57 of the status report , we read : ‘ If equilibrium had not yet been fully established by the time of the switch back at the end of 1979 , then later equilibrium state Pb-206/Pb-207 ratios would presumably be lower than those seen in 1979 . |
| 8 | And then you put a return in at the end of that and it goes back to the margin again . |
| 9 | He let us muck around but we had to get the work in at the end of the week . ’ |
| 10 | Erm , again in my experience the a any additional material usually runs from the close of the enquiry , and I 'm well aware of of the turning up at the end of the enquiry . |
| 11 | ‘ There 's a portrait up at the Hall of a woman wearing a lovely dress , ’ Constance told her mother , as they were both sewing in the drawing room . |
| 12 | ‘ The parents do not get the same child back at the end of this trip , ’ says Dreamflight co-founder Pat Pearce . |
| 13 | J.B. Leishman 's translation reads : What the translation misses here is the distinctive highlighting effect of the repeated non , and the focus on at the end of a line : " " not lineage , not eloquence , not righteousness shall restore you . " " |
| 14 | Grindlewood , built in the Palladian style , turned its nose up at the rest of us with its columns and porticoes and pilasters . |
| 15 | It comes as some surprise , therefore , to hear one of the men likely to benefit turning his nose up at the prospect of winning a ‘ cheap cap ’ . |
| 16 | He swept the ball in at the end of a typical flowing Ipswich move . |
| 17 | She writes about her country home : ‘ The old toad is rolling his drum down at the foot of the hill , and the crunch , crunch of the cows is near to my window over the barbecue . |
| 18 | She is aware of ‘ something lovely somewhere , something that is gone , or hidden , or yet to be attained ’ , but why this urge to scream her head off at the sight of an uncleared breakfast table ? |
| 19 | Elsewhere , JESUS JONES ’ jovial MIKE EDWARDS — a man never ashamed to fill his wallet up at the drop of a hat — could be heard regaling the select with details of his latest project , which we hear is a remix of a BON JOVI track . |
| 20 | As well as the cash and the cup they were treated to an executive night out at the scene of their triumphs , the Superbowl at Stoke-on-Trent 's Festival Park . |
| 21 | Had n't Naylor Massingham been the only other person around at the time of that incident ? |
| 22 | But these jobs ’ — he jerked his head round at the rows of benches — ‘ will no longer exist . |
| 23 | And next week , we 'll take a look back at the highlights of the Central South soccer season … |
| 24 | Sampson would simply assume that he had n't put the chain on at the end of his last stay . |
| 25 | She skilfully prevented him from slipping the crime prevention leaflet in at the bottom of the pile . |
| 26 | THE Conservatives sought to put the economy back at the centre of the election debate yesterday by claiming that Labour 's alternative Budget would ‘ strangle ’ recovery . |
| 27 | Teleworkers can operate at the kitchen table with a couple of filing cabinets tucked under it but most prefer to use a separate room they can shut the door on at the end of the day . |
| 28 | Er two bedrooms , it was a number sixty six Street in those days , there were new houses built on where it is now , I have n't been into Palfry for years but er there were five houses in the row , there was a family named at one end , there was us my nan of course we were next to , next to us was Mrs , a Mr and Mrs , and then er that was one side of the entry the other side of the entry was a family named , they had quite a large family , there was er two or three of those married Mrs and then er then Mrs they were all relatives , cos there was no such thing as overcrowding in those days you got as many in as you could you see , there was , another was Mr and Mrs she was a daughter of Mrs there was Mrs and Mrs she was another daughter of Mrs , and then er there were , there was a , a young man he was a son of Mrs , the were I think show people originally cos they were a bit anyhow there were five houses down the yard we had n't got running water in the sink , we had a , a big stone pump pipe in at the bottom of the entry we all had to go and draw out our own drinking water from this one standpipe . |
| 29 | Is it , for example — this could be one reason — because a clear manifesto commitment must be fulfilled , so Conservative Members feel obliged to rush the Bill through at the end of the Parliament ? |
| 30 | Putting science next to godliness goes hand in hand with rolling back the Copernican revolution and putting Man back at the centre of the universe , a reactionary project that makes the New Right look like tinkerers . |