Example sentences of "[noun pl] [adv] at the [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But clearly we can not blame a single organic agent for the simultaneous extinction of all the varied and unrelated groups of dinosaurs , the pterosaurs , the marine reptiles , the ammonites , the belemnites , the rudistids and many minor groups besides at the end of the Mesozoic . |
| 2 | Under the stress of the All Blacks ' tackling Dewi Morris ' passing let the Lions down at the base of the scrum and his problems were transmitted to the other midfield backs . |
| 3 | In February 1952 , The Musical Express bade farewell to its readers with a final issue that blazed proudly on its cover ‘ Tommy Dorsey For Olympic Games ’ , the accompanying story telling of how bandleader Dorsey and his orchestra had been booked to play for four hours daily at the games in Finland that summer . |
| 4 | Australians too raise their voices querulously at the end of a sentence , only in harsh tones no doubt derived from their country 's past . |
| 5 | This does not show up in the household statistics because many of these stays were for a brief few months right at the end of life . |
| 6 | From one left — hand set of shelves thin hardwood plates of wood scythe outwards at shoulder and shin height in front of the character ; from the right-hand side a single similar plate scythes outwards at the level of the base of the spine . |
| 7 | Er but I am going to take your books in at the end of the lesson so you can perhaps take the last few minutes before just if you 'll just erm put the sums at the moment erm just fix in your sheet fix it in and erm check out that you 've got everything else up to date okay ? |
| 8 | As soon as he saw Adam 's passport he had flicked his eyes down at the register under the counter . |
| 9 | I turned with burnished wings to face the wicked young mother , accusing words already at the roof of my mouth . |
| 10 | I used to tap dance , high kick , do splits , pull my legs up at the back of my head . |
| 11 | At last in 1854 Forbes was duly appointed to the Edinburgh chair , but he died a few months later at the age of only thirty-nine ; there was a general feeling that he had worn himself out with drudgery , and that success had come too late . |
| 12 | So when I 'm seeing clients mainly at the end of a , of a three year , fixed-rate deposit , again at five years when we get a National Savings maturing , and so on and so forth . |
| 13 | She swished the dregs around at the bottom of her can . |
| 14 | About half a dozen employees decided not to relocate their homes immediately at the time of the company 's move south , but to relocate in the following year . |
| 15 | Grant casts his eyes around at the casualties of a drink-based evening albeit mainly non-alcoholic , and demurs , seeing that mild hysteria has set in . |
| 16 | I 'm a three-year-old who hates shots and squeezes her eyes tight at the sight of a needle . |
| 17 | You can also instruct them how to react through your own behaviour : shrugging your shoulders apologetically at the end of your presentation says , ‘ Go on , regard me with contempt . ’ |
| 18 | We were a large family of seven and my father worked on the railway and he only had two pounds a week , but we could make three pounds and ten shillings just at the weekend by working the clubs . |
| 19 | In 1983 , the Conservatives lost their last remaining seats in Glasgow and Liverpool , and Labour 's loss of all but three seats in the South ( other than in London ) left it in control of large contiguous areas only at the core of individual conurbations , and in the former coal field areas of Strathclyde , the north east of England , South Yorkshire and South Wales . |
| 20 | Only last month , BR agreed to put barriers back at the crossing at Ruswarp . |
| 21 | This family carries out its child rearing and educating functions inevitably at the expense of career opportunities for women . |
| 22 | Edward III 's attitude towards questions of tenure and inheritance suggests that he sympathized with the outlook of his peers and was prepared to encourage their aspirations even at the expense of the rights of the crown . |
| 23 | Try to avoid peak moving periods ie at the end of the month or week , particularly Saturdays , and during school holidays . |
| 24 | San Jose , California-based Cypress Semiconductor Corp , which is betting the company on its new HyperSparc microprocessor , for which it has no customers , is to cut costs by moving its US assembly operations offshore at the cost of about 200 American jobs this year — 100 have gone immediately ; it has n't said where assembly will be done . |
| 25 | If you send all those er bits and pieces in at the end of the week we just ask you and you most people do n't get this wrong . |
| 26 | Banning unofficial action will put individual workers entirely at the mercy of unscrupulous employers who will be able to dismiss them selectively on the slightest pretext , without any right of appeal . ’ |
| 27 | Possible options are shown by two films in At The Edge Of The World , a season of weird stuff from the US film and video underground currently on regional tour . |
| 28 | Tiny Andrew Morrison , who was born nine weeks early at the Countess of Chester Hospital , is among 481 children treated by a junior doctor who has since been found to be suffering from TB . |
| 29 | Sorry I could n't get some basic staples up at the house for your arrival . |
| 30 | Figure 4.1 shows the employment status of two age-groups of older workers immediately after redundancy and three years later at the time of interview . |