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

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1 Guests are often late and rarely sit down at the table on time .
2 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 .
3 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 .
4 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 .
5 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
6 5.17 Yield up At the expiration of the Term :
7 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 . ’
8 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 .
9 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 .
10 Charges for back-up support by at the request of will be BEF 20,000 a day excluding expenses .
11 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 .
12 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 .
13 I look down at the map of the estate .
14 I look over at the posters on the wall .
15 I cast one longing glance up at the cliffs of Coire Ardair , where the sun was glancing off the icy tips of gleaming rock , and I knew that next time I 'd get the sucker .
16 I stop for a moment at my gate and look up at the windows of my house .
17 Before leaving Malostranské náměstí , look up at the tower of the Church of St Nicholas .
18 There is just time to lift the curtain and peep out at the scene in the street , then to dash upstairs , stand on the bathroom stool and see what the picture is like from that angle .
19 Some 24 per cent of children drop out at the transition from primary to secondary school , while at secondary level there has recently been a significant rise in the drop-out rate .
20 These images can be re-scaled at will and always print out at the resolution of the printer rather than the computer 's display .
21 The 21-year-old Scottish Under-21 international , who was linked with Rangers during the summer , is one of 10 Forest players whose current contracts run out at the end of the season .
22 The current contracts run out at the end of the month .
23 This is ambitious , and if we look back at the scope of the information skills , it is subversive to present-day teaching .
24 If we look back at the exchange between the piano movers , for example , we can see that the verbs ( 's goin , 's got to take , ai n't goin' , do n't , come on ) are all in the present ( although they refer to the future ) .
25 And it even happens where the clays which overlie the chalk , the tertiary clays which you can see for example in the top of the cliffs at Newhaven , and if you look back at the cliff from the western breakwater for example you can see clay sitting on top of chalk .
26 A look back at the history of the Hinkley site must have added to the CEGB 's optimism .
27 whereas you look back at the end of the day and if you have n't done what you did you sort of feel like a bit down ah and you wish you had
28 Now look back at the extracts from Lawrence , Boyle , Ozick , Betjeman and Joyce .
29 He was a ‘ chest case ’ for years and when I look back at the photographs of him he 's always trying to look normal but actually his face is pained from trying to breathe .
30 A. Look back at the information in sections 2 and 3 , pages 71–74 .
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