Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [pron] at the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | Toucans collect them one at a time , throwing them up in the air and deftly catching them at the back of their throats . |
2 | A system where the user presses a series of buttons without thought and gets exactly what he needs ( rather than what he at that stage thinks he wants ) is efficient but not entirely educational , any more than one so difficult that the user could only throw himself at the mercy of the person sitting at the reader 's adviser desk . |
3 | So in two years flat , after riding on the crest of a wave , people who had been cock of the walk in ICI suddenly found themselves at the bottom of the league . |
4 | ‘ I have only seen her at the funeral . |
5 | You 'll only spend it at the bar otherwise . |
6 | It was a thoroughly tested number as Tiller had not only shown it at the Palace but his La Scala Girls had also performed it at the Winter Gardens Pavilion , Blackpool , the previous year . |
7 | A farmer had a load of unwanted sawdust so piled it at the end of his drive with a notice : ‘ Free sawdust — help yourself ’ . |
8 | ‘ You 'd better drop me at the hospital . ’ |
9 | The plan was to let him ride Dave Leach 's 400cc machine in the first round of the Superteens last weekend and then move on to Moodie 's Yamaha for the Scot is only riding it at the North West and the TT . |
10 | But then again , we can only hear them at the moment , but there are six of them . |
11 | The Oxford ordination ceremonies have been booked for April the sixteenth and seventeenth of next year although the Diocese stresses there 's been no race to be first , they 've merely found themselves at the head of the queue . |
12 | Surely the manager could have massaged his ego enough to keep him at the club . |
13 | Thus if my main concern is to have a vast stock of personal possessions and control over the lives of others , I can doubtless only have them at the expense of others . |
14 | But since such progress is conceived as immanent to musical history itself , independent of variants of musical practice , social usage and reception , the theory moves dangerously close to a hypostasis of technique ; at the very least it confines the relationship between musical and social structures to the level of the longue durée , since at that level society is ‘ encapsulated ’ in music , while in between , music 's ‘ autonomous unfoldment … follows the social dynamics without a glance or any direct communication ’ ( ibid : 206–7 ) , still less putting itself at the service of particular social subjects . |
15 | ‘ Your'e better hurting yourself at the time , because you 're going to feel awful when you see the paper and it 's not right , ’ he rationalizes . |
16 | ‘ I only see her at the office . |
17 | Tony Coton apparently embraced him at the end and gave him soime words of encouragement . |
18 | A Gothic mahogany bookcase ( lot 478 , est. $6,000–9,000 ) was a beautiful piece of transitional classical/Gothic Revival furniture , though it was obviously missing something at the top , either an additional moulding or added tracery . |
19 | Shadow ministers who visited Washington thus found themselves at the centre of considerable attention , and were probed in detail on their thinking over a range of issues . |
20 | She was able to get her bearings this way and soon found herself at the back of the house . |
21 | just let it at the bottom . |
22 | Just dump it at the door there . |
23 | He was pulling him , trying to get him off me — he threw him — he just threw him at the bed — I knew he was all right , he were screaming but I could n't — they were both screaming , Cathy and Gary both , and he got me by the throat . |
24 | I 'm not watching it I 'm just getting it at the beginning . |
25 | If they get in if they start getting in the way the best thing to do is just let them relax to the side and try and forget about them , I know it 's difficult to forget about them but just to the conscious effort with the hands is just to put them at the side . |
26 | ‘ It is number 52 , is n't it ? ’ she asked , just to keep him at the end of the line . |
27 | I 'm just doing something at the moment |
28 | But he could n't just leave her at the station . |
29 | The simple way there as you 've probably been told by your tax officer here is just to reclaim it at the end of the tax year . |
30 | Yes , I just saw you at the crossroads you see |