Example sentences of "[vb base] [adv prt] at the [noun] and " in BNC.

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1 The temptation and the suspense novel , a book in which a high degree of identification both from intellectual curiosity and emotional involvement is necessary for the writer as much as the reader , is to catch hold of some intriguing initial situation , sit down at the typewriter and go racing ahead from there .
2 ‘ Romans line up at the camp and Brits over there in the woods , ’ Nigel instructed .
3 Look up at the rooftops and you will see things you have never noticed before .
4 She heard the front gate squeak open , and as she saw the two young Garda officers look up at the window and come slowly up her path , Kit Hegarty suddenly knew without any doubt what they were coming to tell her .
5 And if you look back at the minutes and then Yona I think she 's great as the secretary because she does n't let anything go but on the other hand she 's pretty informal about and the way th that over the weeks you know somebody er Julie or June or Mervia Ann come up with the suggestion that they maybe feel why do n't we do this and then by the next week it 's turned into a a rally or a big picket or or a record .
6 And if you look around at the world and try and find the women in positions of power , you have to say , where are they ?
7 Now come along , sit up at the table and have your tea . ’
8 Hapless drivers draw up at the lights and are yanked from their cars at knife-point .
9 Go up at the fence and just ask for
10 or they turn up at the gates and go shit Mr like the headmaster 's on the door and my nipples are in and they go hang on I 've got some ice cubes here , put them on and they come out and er they go by the nipples , your nipples are looking good today .
11 LENNY KAYE , sometime guitarist and sometime producer , is a man in his 40s with facial lines that turn up at the edges and spell affability .
12 LENNY KAYE , sometime guitarist and sometime producer , is a man in his 40s with facial lines that turn up at the edges and spell affability .
13 Where you start down at the estbottom and build it right up to the goddamn , fuckin' sky ! ’
14 They come round at the interval and say , ‘ Was Ruby on for the first half ? ’ and I say , ‘ Yes . ’
15 I gaze up at the cross and listen .
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