Example sentences of "the [noun pl] [adv] at the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Under the stress of the All Blacks ' tackling Dewi Morris ' passing let the Lions down at the base of the scrum and his problems were transmitted to the other midfield backs . |
| 2 | The British sent troops to defend the Abadan refinery and made a secret deal with the Russians whereby at the end of the war the Russians would have control of Istanbul and the Dardanelles , and Iran would be divided between them , the Russians in the North , the British in the South , and the British influential in the " neutral " zone , where the oil was to be founded . |
| 3 | ‘ I did n't explain the rules properly at the outset so it 's only fair we should start again … ’ |
| 4 | Cross-country skiing is a sliding walk , with feet fixed to the skis only at the toe . |
| 5 | By analysing element of the calls back at the laboratory , the biologists were able to show that the prairie dogs distinguished between them reasonably well , effectively creating a distinctive call for each person . |
| 6 | Instead , they now intend to integrate the technologies only at the network management level . |
| 7 | She swished the dregs around at the bottom of her can . |
| 8 | Well they always started the lads right at the pit bottom and in those days ev everybody was crackers down there in those days , they were all mad , tearing about . |
| 9 | ‘ The lads still at the club are coming from all over the place to turn out for us , and are happy just to play the game . |
| 10 | So there we are , that 's the woofers tonight at the Oxford Stadium , and that 's it from Talking Sport this Saturday . |
| 11 | There was some attempt by friends of Highlander to purchase some of the books etc. at the auction but the buildings and most of the moveable assets were lost . |
| 12 | After breakfast , Damian picked the keys up at the desk , and they walked out into the cool sunlit morning to find the streets busy and bright . |
| 13 | And now we find that the people who are troubling the Dales most at the moment are out of your own world — Bragad and Jinneth . |
| 14 | But do n't get the seats right at the bottom next time . |
| 15 | Two men , possibly with Liverpool accents , are believed to have bought the weapons locally at the time the couple disappeared . |
| 16 | His shirt was casually unbuttoned at the chest , the trousers high at the waist and tight about his hips . |
| 17 | I enjoyed the work there — dealing with customers on the phone — there were two of us girls … the other girl was in charge and we had a man over us , but it was between us two … we had to get all the statements out at the end of the month … |
| 18 | Connor had his back to her , stretching up then stooping down to slide the bolts home at the top and bottom of the front door , but he said nothing . |
| 19 | Another of the machines already at the Centre uses a smaller number of more powerful processors to achieve over 2 gigaFlops . |
| 20 | ‘ Captain Owen is deep in the toils of the accountants just at the moment . ’ |
| 21 | There had , he said , been a recent independent survey which had shown that the clients put ethical standards of the agencies right at the top , above rates , above speed , above feedback . |
| 22 | Under the Bush administration , State Department officials met the delegates only at the beginning and end of each round . |
| 23 | He went through a brief period of chatting to the customers down at the bank about how he had seen someone come back from the dead . |
| 24 | It seems that Watkins 's energies have gone into making sure he has got the details right at the expense of analysis . |
| 25 | Hard to talk though ; the machines are as noisy as the trains back at the flats and there 's pop music screaming out all day long from the radio wedged on top of the mantelpiece . |
| 26 | You open the top and then let the cats in at the bottom ! |
| 27 | A spokeswoman for Greater Manchester Police said : ‘ A woman who did some shopping for the couple dropped the items off at the house . |
| 28 | Parents can have such an enormous effect on your lives together that you need to work out the boundaries right at the beginning . |
| 29 | We 're the ones who you know , do n't tell anybody what our strategy is going to be , we suddenly spring it on the members right at the end of the process at the council meeting . |
| 30 | And then I could add them together , or if that 's a bit awkward , what I could do is I could think of the hundred and one as a hundred add one , I can think of the seventeen as ten add seven , and then I multiply them this way and I multiply all the bits and then add all the bits up at the end . |