Example sentences of "[vb base] [adv] at [art] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Guests are often late and rarely sit down at the table on time . |
| 2 | Mark and Babur sit together at the head of the bed , holding hands , looking stunned . |
| 3 | Er but I mean basically at the end of the day , I mean you have to think about to what extent you can increase your sales . |
| 4 | Mangroves are trees that grow right at the edge of the sea , held and nourished through characteristic prop roots that grip the soft mud . |
| 5 | The first English cookery book recipes for tomatoes appear only at the beginning of the nineteenth century . |
| 6 | The fifteenth hole is short but dangerous ; its plateau green is ringed by bunkers at the front and sides and the trees press in at the back in a claustrophobic way — a nightmarish hole if you are playing badly . |
| 7 | As soon as the flow becomes established , in fact , piles of solid lumps of lava build up at the sides of the flow , and help to confine it to its course . |
| 8 | Jane and children plan to fly out to Cape Town when the boats dock there at the end of the third leg in April . |
| 9 | Whilst they are here , we hope that they rub away at the image of Birmingham and find its reality . |
| 10 | Laugh off the endless epithetising of everyone who crosses his path — his ‘ pretty elder daughter ’ , the ‘ renowned tailor ’ , even my own guest appearance as ‘ that respected mountaineer ’ ; roar aloud at the over-the-topness of the following : ‘ That evening at dinner the flap of our tent opened and in strode a figure of heroic majesty . |
| 11 | That proof showed that general relativity is only an incomplete theory : it can not tell us how the universe started off , because it predicts that all physical theories , including itself , break down at the beginning of the universe . |
| 12 | Erm the tentative benefit you put in at the end of that you said is that okay and Maggie said yes erm the answer could be construed I , I thought in that basis well yes it 's okay so what whereas if you 'd 've said is that of interest to you |
| 13 | I groan inwardly at the prospect of a night playing Happy Families with a bunch of desk-jockeys and number-crunchers . |
| 14 | 5.17 Yield up At the expiration of the Term : |
| 15 | So next time you catch up at the lights with the smug so and so who was stuck to your bumper a mile back , with all the understanding you can muster just remind him that : ‘ There , there dear , size is n't everything you know . ’ |
| 16 | Finally , grab yourself a makeshift whip : lash out at the face with the leather belt from your waist so that it cracks like the real thing . |
| 17 | The reason for this is that the money you receive back at the end of the year will not go as far or buy as much as it did 12 months earlier . |
| 18 | I 've had some armchairs brought in and put there at the window in case you want to talk to people more informally than around the table . ’ |
| 19 | Charges for back-up support by at the request of will be BEF 20,000 a day excluding expenses . |
| 20 | Similar proposals put forward at the end of World War I , to provide financial support via NHI to women after childbirth , were rejected largely because it was felt that they would offer an inducement to married women to work . |
| 21 | The enormous success of the Matisse show currently at the Museum of Modern Art , New York , has coincided if not resulted in a large number of works appearing this season . |
| 22 | If we look only at the surface of this transaction , it wo n't make sense to us . |
| 23 | When you turn over the pages of the Supplement , pay no attention at first to the volume numbers at the top left-hand corner of the pages ; look only at the headings at the top right-hand corner , which are in alphabetical order . |
| 24 | Look down at the foot of the page and you will probably find others , occurring not so frequently but with regularity and at fixed intervals . |
| 25 | Look down at the floor of the cab , and you 'll find a lever on the left hand side for using the Antares ' fuel-saving mode . |
| 26 | I look down at the map of the estate . |
| 27 | I look over at the posters on the wall . |
| 28 | The pilots will see little of the show , they look just at the planes around them . |
| 29 | Look critically at the views of the staffroom cynic |
| 30 | Successive Foreign Secretaries , the ambassadorial input , the input of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office and especially the input of those who beaver away at the top of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office in dim Victorian rooms have made a tremendous contribution to the unique catalytic role which my right hon. Friend the Foreign Secretary mentioned . |