Example sentences of "[noun pl] [adv prt] at the [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 ? |
| 3 | I used to tap dance , high kick , do splits , pull my legs up at the back of my head . |
| 4 | She swished the dregs around at the bottom of her can . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | I enjoyed the work there — dealing with customers on the phone — there were two of us girls … the other girl was in charge and we had a man over us , but it was between us two … we had to get all the statements out at the end of the month … |
| 9 | This enabled him to look forward with confidence to continued improvements which would put the British plants back at the top of the performance league , where they used to be , and where they belonged . |
| 10 | We 'll go the other way down to the superstore because there 's traffic lights down at the end of our road . |
| 11 | Nor yet the immense Catacombs down at the base of the fortress-monastery , where heroes ancient and modern lay in ranks of caskets . |
| 12 | ‘ I adore you , your body drives me wild with desire , I live for the light in your eyes , my whole being lights up at the thought of you . |
| 13 | Like all scientific findings , mine are actually nothing but readings on meters , printouts on papers , numbers derived from machines ( nothing but pointer-readings , the positivist philosopher and physicist Ernst Mach called such observations back at the beginning of this century ) , which I manipulate to extract meaning and which I then endeavour to extrapolate back to stand for , to represent , deductions about the behaviour of molecules , cells and organisms in the real world . |
| 14 | But she and Matthew had had so many cold steely little tussles these last few weeks over so many small things — like the panelling in the hall and cutting some trees down at the side of the house which she said darkened the drawing-room and which he had gone berserk about — that Sara did not feel she could be obstructive again . |
| 15 | Inside the yard there was hooks up at the back of the place and we used to hang this big cloth down so they were warm . |
| 16 | The match organiser had a 2 lb chub first cast and continued with steak under his 5AAA waggler four rod lengths out at the top of the road stretch . |
| 17 | These had all NUM members out at the start of the strike , and the great majority were still out six months later . |
| 18 | ‘ She 'll get the family albums out at the drop of a hat … ’ |
| 19 | He puts 3.3 kilos in at the start of the copper boil for Best Bitter and an additional 1.5 kilos at the end . |
| 20 | The man looked round the bar before marching over to a group of men down at the end of the counter . |
| 21 | Since 15 million years is a very short period in terms of evolution , we have to conclude that there were some big whales around at the time of the catastrophe . |