Example sentences of "[verb] [adv prt] at [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Cornelius would remain on at school until real work could be found for him .
2 I 'm quite pleased with how I got on at work today with the amount of work I 'd done that
3 If we make the ( unrealistic ) assumption that , in driving some variables to integer values , the other variable values do not change much , we can estimate the optimal objective function value of the integer down-problem created by branching on at node k to be where z k is the optimal objective function value of LPk .
4 When one is a member of any society from a distance it is easy to get a wrong impression about what goes on at headquarters .
5 It is , it 's sort of like it 's sort of like extradited from the rest of the er the rest of the whole university , you know , nobody really cares about what goes on at Handsworth .
6 Naturally , with no reserve of our own in the county , we are much interested in what goes on at Rutland Water .
7 Or is it because they do not actually know what goes on at field sport events such as shooting ?
8 To put members ‘ in the picture ’ about just what goes on at Potters Bar the tour extended to the membership department , the various offices and even the accounts department .
9 Er for the Conservative group er we agreed with our colleagues from the other side er the need to install by very close integration on public transport with anything that goes on at Heathrow er I was
10 Car production still goes on at Cowley , but there is nostalgia for these old buildings .
11 Thing about this programme it is so it is so crucial to everything that goes on at Radio York while it is happening , they eat in the other room that 's how much er interest there is they eat in the other room .
12 Neil gets nod to carry on at Leeds
13 Would I stay on at night to go over some sales figures ?
14 Secondary education is compulsory up to the age of 16 , and pupils can stay on at school for up to three years longer .
15 Meanwhile the Elector Carl Theodor had taken up residence in Munich , and had invited the members of his court to join him there ( though they could stay on at Mannheim and retain their salaries if they wished ) .
16 ‘ That you can stay on at Sleet as long as you like , but with the new owner , should he wish to take residence there .
17 It is hoped that the first year 's crop of students will stay on at Hooke Park to help initiate a production plant there .
18 A RECORD number of 16-year-olds will stay on at schools and colleges next month — but for many it is simply a way of avoiding the dole queue .
19 You must stay on at Casa Sciorto , Caroline … ’
20 Looking for a plausible mechanism is slightly easier , but the search has only just begun , and there are few clues to go on at present .
21 Many forms had days when lessons finished at midday , and study had to go on at home .
22 Before his last throw of the dice he had been hanging on at Etten in hopes of a visit from Mauve , who had half promised to come and initiate him into ‘ the mysteries of the palette ’ .
23 ‘ The first time ’ , Hortensia said , ‘ I poured half a tin of Golden Syrup on to the seat of the chair the Trunchbull was going to sit on at prayers .
24 He had missed her moment — he knew he had missed it — ; yet his eyes softened suddenly , and you could almost see the shadow fall from his shoulders as he twinkled down at Laura where she knelt before her dying fire .
25 Ian , 49 , told friends : ‘ It may sound sloppy but the two of us will be able to sit down at home and have a jolly good cuddle listening to this . ’
26 At two o'clock I should like to sit down at table .
27 I took the coach , and after thirty-six hours of travelling I got down at Thornfield village , and almost ran across the fields in my hurry to see the well-known house again , and its owner .
28 For in one follow-up meeting after another , in Belgrade and Madrid and finally Vienna , the human rights standards laid down at Helsinki were refined and tightened , while Romanian internal policies either stood still or moved in the other direction , that is to say downhill .
29 These negotiations were unfruitful and the ILP continued to press its Members for acceptance of the conditions for group membership laid down at Birmingham .
30 He 's struggling along at present with fifty or so sheep , growing a bit of food for himself along with his winter feed for the beasts .
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