Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv prt] at the [noun sg] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | If you follow the principles laid down at the beginning of this feature then you should have no problem . |
| 2 | These leaves are beautifully preserved in a flat-bedded and very highly fissile shale , laid down at the bottom of a fresh water lake . |
| 3 | Just er we lived down at the bottom of the village there . |
| 4 | The unending toil , which ground on at the pace of the changing seasons and the constant struggle against relentless Nature would be in vain , as far as Jonadab Oaks was concerned , unless there were others of his name to follow in his footsteps and work this land to which he had devoted his life . |
| 5 | Francis stopped and peered down at the complex of buildings . |
| 6 | The Shaws moved in at the beginning of December 1906 with a married couple , Henry and Clara Higgs , to look after them . |
| 7 | The boyfriend moved in at the beginning of the summer ; he gets by doing casual work on the farms . ’ |
| 8 | Patrol cars drew up at the bottom of the steps . |
| 9 | A mortuary van drew up at the end of the bridge , and two men , carrying a stretcher , came down the steps . |
| 10 | In silence we worked , completely indifferent to the freezing cold , as the pile built up at the side of the house . |
| 11 | But this time she staggered back at the force of his tongue , invading , probing and making her gasp with unwanted pleasure . |
| 12 | They reported back at the end of January 1991 and commented that one of the reasons for the massive underspending was the fact that one had to have three companies before one could apply . |
| 13 | When I take two and found out at the end of it there was a bit of erm Die Hard cos they 're a bit at this . |
| 14 | Pensions for the aged came in at the beginning of the twentieth century . |
| 15 | When the tax came in at the beginning of 1863 , vodka became cheaper and more readily available , state revenues held up , and the former monopolists of the retail trade began to invest their accumulated capital in railways , banks and mines . |
| 16 | Deciding that his lead was comfortable enough to make a precautionary stop , Senna came in at the end of lap 48 . |
| 17 | Well we got to and there 's three weeks well when we came up at the beginning of May there was a notice on the main main twenty one which said |
| 18 | Somehow , though , we did feel better as we filed out at the end of the service and made our way down to the river . |
| 19 | Taskopruzade 's statement that he came back at the request of a repentant sultan is , of course , highly doubtful in view of the fact that his departure and return seem certain to have occurred in the reigns of different sultans . |
| 20 | The goal though , was against the run of play and sure enough , Rovers came back at the start of the second half with an equaliser from Kenny Irons . |
| 21 | And so hopefully you came back at the end of the day with quite a bou bag full on your bike , or a box it was , fitted in a carrier , full . |
| 22 | ‘ I see , ’ said Doyle softly as they came out at the bottom of the stairs . |
| 23 | She came out at the head of the stairs and looked down . |
| 24 | My wife is a business woman with two shops and I came out at the height of the rag trade jamborees . |
| 25 | He gestured around at the conglomeration of abandoned implements , hardly any of which he could put a name on . |
| 26 | They turned in at the yard of a two-storey stone house which had a red tiled roof . |
| 27 | Erm , although I think we will say that that would be dangerous thing to do and that we should continue to work upon the er the assumption that there erm er overall as a n , a nine percent increase , but , that seems highly unlikely that will succeed , erm What I 've then done is take account of the various staffing changes that there have been during the year , both short term and long term , erm , and you 'll see that produces a figure actually available to us this year of twenty seven thousand five hundred and eighty eight investigative hours , erm which is slightly less than we had last year , er but erm almost not significantly so , erm and it seemed to me therefore that if we were n't trying to reduce times , er , if we were saying that we would turn in times at the end of this year which were the same as the term times we turned in at the end of last year we could probably achieve that without any further recruitment . |
| 28 | And erm , the other aspect , the last aspect that gave us er anxiety was something I touched on this morning when I joined in at the end of the Selby discussion . |
| 29 | My brother , now himself in the RAF , turned up at the door of the Met Office one morning , announcing that he had been posted to Bourn . |
| 30 | It was the next day that Lewis turned up at the door of the workshop his tools in a bag and his leather apron over his arm . |