Example sentences of "[adv] [vb pp] [adv] at the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | With only three minutes remaining in their Sharwood 's Irish Senior Cup semi-final clash against Pegasus , Sinead , who had only come on at the start of the second-half , popped up to score the only goal of the game . |
| 2 | In Lucien 's family , they had only come together at the times appointed by the Church : meals , various holidays , family councils and those mysterious , Church-nominated occasions when children were conceived . |
| 3 | In fact it seemed that at that time ( early 1977 ) sexual examination had become common practice at Heathrow Immigration Department , apparently carried out at the whim of the officials . |
| 4 | ‘ The sandwiches 'll be all curled up at the edges , ’ his mum complained . |
| 5 | Though his hands were free he could not rise , only thrust helplessly at the ground . |
| 6 | Critical also of the World Cup organisation , and referring to the umpiring in West Indies as ‘ disgraceful ’ , this agonising cricketer , who came from nowhere at 18 , spotted by Javed Miandad , seems greatly perturbed still at the £1000 fine extracted from him for swearing within the hearing of umpire Plews after he had banned him for bowling bouncers against Warwickshire . |
| 7 | In several European countries there were disclosures during November concerning clandestine anti-communist units , apparently set up at the height of the Cold War in the 1950s and intended to lie dormant for activation in the event of a communist takeover . |
| 8 | Yeah , I 'll have it in a minute I 'm all glued up at the moment . |
| 9 | Prickett , a former captain of the Wanderers , has been warmly welcomed back at the Memorial Grounds . |
| 10 | That is , people tend to forget either in a motivated way , or accidentally , people will tend to minimise or trivialise the abuse to which they 've been subject in some cases because maybe saying that you 've been sexually abused as a child and that is why you 're so screwed up at the moment um that 's not necessarily a very self-benefiting thing to say . |
| 11 | Value for money : The 3-night cruise is obviously aimed largely at the US market with the incentive of no extra air fares . |
| 12 | The line of the coat is thus broken casually at the waist , and an air of nonchalance — and , hopefully , elegance — is achieved . |
| 13 | The way the ground just curled up at the edges until you lost sight of it , we could n't have crept up on a hunk of soya . ’ |
| 14 | Building on the work of the Japan Industrial Studies Programme already carried out at the Policy Studies Institute , the aim is to find out how Japanese managers , especially those in companies that are competing in the British market , see marketing and how they succeed in putting their strategies into effect . |
| 15 | We lose some of the sense of taste as we get older , but the temptation to add more salt to food , and to eat salty foods , should be resisted — salt is best added only at the cooking stage ; not at the table . |
| 16 | Clever Folly , winner of the A F Budge Chase at Cheltenham two years ago , has already scored twice at the track this season but needs fast conditions . |
| 17 | Mr Mounsa , 47 , was ordered to strip off the wallpaper he had just put up at the house in Toxteth . |
| 18 | And I said , well I know nothing about that kind of music but that 's the impression I got , I was just stood there at the bar thinking that last , last Friday it 's not the same one , thinking , you know , this is just this is just very samey it |
| 19 | Orcs and Goblins almost overwhelm the remaining Dwarf holds but are finally beaten back at the Battle of Black Water . |
| 20 | A Devon labourer who promised his mother not to marry in her lifetime , finally married only at the age of 51 : ‘ bugger , we was courting for seventeen year . |
| 21 | All members of the central team at Merrion House ( the Education Department 's offices ) were severely stretched in terms of both time and the range of roles they were expected to encompass , and it was therefore inevitable that some aspects of their job could be successfully accomplished only at the expense of others . |
| 22 | In more recent times the village was part of Lord Burlington 's estate at Londesborough , and was eventually sold off at the beginning of this century . |
| 23 | Elsewhere , guidebooks now pinpoint severity with laser accuracy — grades : adjectival and numerical : even death-potential ; and those oh-so-helpful lists , usually hidden away at the back , slightly shamefacedly among the first ascent details . |
| 24 | Realising how she was staring at him , Isabel quickly looked back at the fire , leaning sideways a little so that her still-damp hair fell forward , partially shielding her face . |
| 25 | Acceptance sampling is usually carried out at the customer 's premises and consists of examining samples of goods delivered , noting the number of reject , or unsatisfactory , items , comparing this number with an agreed acceptable quality level . |
| 26 | At percutaneous transhepatic cholangiography bile is often sampled on initial puncture of the liver at a site distant from the stricture whereas at endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography sampling is usually carried out at the site of the stricture after it has been disrupted by insertion of an endoprosthesis . |
| 27 | Ramsay 's other secret society , the Right Club , was also ostensibly closed down at the outbreak of war . |
| 28 | ‘ What do you find to do , out all day ? ’ asked my mother , who only ventured out with a specific purpose in mind and always got back at the time she had decided she would . |
| 29 | Gaston , however , disposed of the latest invaders and then commemorated his double success over the heathens by incorporating into his portal the figures of two Saracens in chains and oriental costume , to be seen still hunched submissively at the foot of the central pillar of the doorway as if having to bear all its weight . |
| 30 | I said I was rather tied up at the school over most week-ends ; though the half-term holiday was the week-end after next and I might just be in Athens then — but I could n't be sure . |