Example sentences of "[det] [noun pl] [adv prt] at the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Nevertheless , Mrs Atkins , I would appreciate it if you could answer a few questions down at the station … ’ |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Then a few soldiers up at the goods store fired into their own men . ’ |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | So if these beggars up at the top it was had been er thought out had a break well er it was alri =right for the others working down in the bottom to have a a break . |
| 6 | Pointing at the three musclemen positioned outside his HQ 's entrance , he added : ‘ We 'd be stupid not to have these guys around at the moment . ’ |
| 7 | Er minding motors outside the Arms and the Bridge Hotel every night , maybe only get sixpence or sevenpence cos there was n't that many cars about at the time . |
| 8 | Lily said he was wasting his money , and he was ; they were all papists down at the Bridewell . |
| 9 | Once we 've got those tiles off at the bottom there |
| 10 | I do n't shut all the internal doors and I certainly do n't pull most plugs out at the socket . |
| 11 | Grace Bird , whom he had worked with before and of whom he was fond , spent most nights up at the hospital knitting in the waiting-room while Dotty ministered to poor old Dickie St Ives , and although he respected Mary Deare as a performer — she was possibly the best Peter since Nina Boucicault — she had never been a chum . |