Example sentences of "[vb base] [adv prt] at [adj] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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1 | I sit down at this desk with a ledger . |
2 | The children line up at one end of the room with the organizer ( grandmother ) at the other . |
3 | The bears line up at one end of the room . |
4 | An RSPCA official said : ‘ This all seems very pointless because wasps die out at this time of year anyway . ’ |
5 | ‘ Although it was horrible to lose my titles , I look back at that fight as a great experience . ’ |
6 | Outside of London , too , generally over the South , the West and the South-east , a decline in real wages set in at some point in the two decades centred on 1760 , as money wages fell behind rising prices . |
7 | One of the greatest of all sports car road races ever run , the Mille Miglia was first held in 1927 and , by tradition , cars set off at one-minute intervals from the centre of Brescia , raced down to Rome and returned . |
8 | JUN 1992 TOP post boxes and notice boards set up at various locations around the site and in mess rooms to communicate TOP news . |
9 | They buy the " right " type of car ( currently the BMW or Jaguar ! ) go to particular resorts in Spain or Greece , play golf , eat out at certain types of restaurant , and read the " Sunday Times ' on Sunday . |
10 | Such beachcombing activities go on at numerous places around our ‘ sceptred Isle ’ . |
11 | Go up at all costs to Lescun , three steep miles from the main road in the mountains to the right , at a height of 3,000 feet . |
12 | They just energetically throw the pebbles around , and big pebbles and small pebbles respond differently to this treatment so they end up at different levels of the beach . |
13 | ‘ If you think I 'm going to let you turn out at this time of night you 've got another think coming . |
14 | ( See Hall v Marians 19 TC 582 , Wild v King Smith 24 TC 86 , IRC v Gordon 33 TC 226 cf Lord Radcliffe in Thompson v Moyse 39 TC 29 at 337 ; it is not felt that Harmel v Wright 49 TC 149 at 159 alters the position because if one is " keeping one 's eye " ( p157E ) on the income and benefit it does not find its way to the United Kingdom ( it is hardly the case that the income and benefit " come in at one end of a conduit pipe and pass through certain traceable pipes until they come out at the other end to the taxpayer ( in the United Kingdom " ) ) . ) |
15 | The rock is also riddled with tunnels , some of which come out at secret entrances in the forest below . |