Example sentences of "[noun] [adv prt] at [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | British flags upside down at royal show |
| 2 | Following the bomb drop , the Lincolns would wheel in at low level allowing the air gunners to heavily strafe the target area . |
| 3 | When the Duke died of dropsy in 1827 , his financial affairs were in such a state that his executors took the unprecedented step of placing his chattels up at public auction , entrusting the sale to the young James Christie . |
| 4 | ‘ Besotted by that silly queer over at Imperial . ’ |
| 5 | But for newcomers it is daunting to stand on the brink of Genghis Khan — one of the runs in China Bowl — and gaze down at unending acres of snow . |
| 6 | If you are going up to senior positions movement is essential ; even people who may plateau out at middle management will have done a lot of different jobs for three , four , five years . |
| 7 | Ellen had played Monday night , her individuals down at open then she played who 's what ? |
| 8 | This makes contact with the batch of rods , then draws the cooling product along at predetermined speed for about 5m(16ft) before–relaxing the pressure , lifting off , and allowing the machine operator to cut the batch free . |
| 9 | We wheedled the book ourselves out of that gullible weakling Fleming over at Dull . |
| 10 | He could hear vehicles moving along the road , dropping storm-troopers off at regular intervals as they started to search the forest . |
| 11 | When approached by Central news Mrs Gee drove off at high speed . |
| 12 | ‘ Happy Game ’ , for instance , has a chorus about celebrating the end of an unhappy relationship , a state of affairs that in ‘ Immigrants … ’ days would have seen the band crying their guitars out at high speed for three minutes or so . |
| 13 | ‘ Looking after ’ their workers most definitely does not mean paying higher than the prevailing rate of wages , but it does imply a genuine concern for their employees ' welfare ( including help with personal and domestic problems ) , the provision of decent housing facilities and frequent individual acts of generosity like small gifts on family birthdays and at Christmas , the allowance of various perquisites and even the provision of occasional ‘ treats ’ like harvest suppers and days out at local agricultural shows . |
| 14 | The memory of the towers ' electro-sticks back at Mars-U made her fingers fumble at the keys . |
| 15 | Profits were 50% up at passive components distributor Nortronic but Wakefield , the US networking equipment company that has moved into network systems integration , turned in a slightly lower contribution than last year because return of growth in the UK market has not enhanced the computer communications sector yet . |
| 16 | She sucked her teeth , took another ticket down at random , glanced at it , crumpled it and tossed it into the disposal by her left knee . |
| 17 | Turning things over at random and hoping to stumble on the sought object usually works when the space to be searched is small . |
| 18 | So tha that is , mam picks phone up at other end . |
| 19 | And she confirmed the inevitable , the news that executives back at Grundy TV in Melbourne had always feared they would hear , she would never again play Charlene in Neighbours . |
| 20 | Now , hitting upon the lucky number that opens the bank 's safe is the equivalent , in our analogy , of hurling scrap metal around at random and happening to assemble a Boeing 747 . |
| 21 | Starting with a look back at early aircraft carrier landings , with a fair amount of aircraft coming to grief , the film includes interviews with the likes of Boone Guyton , Corsair test pilot and Don Jordan , Pratt & Whitney engineer . |
| 22 | ‘ Because the three men that I 've got in the morgue back at New Scotland Yard are Peter Lawton , Mathew Bryce and Trevor Magee . ’ |
| 23 | You bring lots of people in at junior management and through a series of apprenticeships you cream off the people who get to the top . |
| 24 | Ex-Sun Microsystems Inc executive Bill Keating who traipsed off about 18 months ago to become vice president and general manager over at Rational Inc ( UX No 349 ) is now winding down out of that job and consulting with the new Lachman Technology Inc , helping to get that start-up going ( UX No 418 ) . |
| 25 | Profits up at Royal Scottish |
| 26 | Remarkably simple yet it still needs an awful lot of erm individ er people teams of people back at head office backing you know know what I mean . |
| 27 | He 'll have to show people round at low tide , and get them off before it turns . |
| 28 | I took an aspirin , thought about having a wank , heard a car go by ( quickly ) and put Simon Bates on at top volume . |
| 29 | The island is an ideal location where new ocean crust wells up at active ridges near the surface , rather than deep beneath the ocean . |
| 30 | Having arranged to meet Morton back at Old Jewry , Bragg took a train to Hackney Downs and walked the quarter-mile to the police station . |