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

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1 So what they says is that I , I got on at this wall , jumped across onto this other wall , shinned up the outside of this other wall , stood on top of this the first floor wall and jumped up and caught hold of the top of the second floor wall and he reckon in the la about fucking twenty odd seconds , I was up and over and in , they , they , they fucking kill yourself , get down , I ca n't remember none of it .
2 Since many people are unable to meet the costs of litigation from their own resources , the availability of representation under the legal aid scheme will often be the crucial factor in deciding whether the case goes on at all .
3 As I have already noted , some kind of political change goes on at all times , produced by the succession of generations , the rise and fall of dynasties , competition among various social groups , economic and cultural developments , changing external circumstances , and more idiosyncratic factors , which can only be understood fully through detailed historical studies .
4 What goes on at these ‘ ends ’ is intelligible only to those involved .
5 He goes on at some length referring to the machinery used for scribbling , spinning , fulling etc , all of these processes carried out under one roof .
6 It goes on at some length to persuade people not to climb up this waterfall and muck about in it .
7 ‘ You do not know what goes on at this school , ’ said Rafiq .
8 You do n't need any further underwriting to carry on at that level , but you can do .
9 Such an approach enables active work to go on at all times , including those when no change of placement is contemplated or during periods of waiting for a suitable placement to become available .
10 There was nothing to go on at all .
11 There is absolutely nothing else to go on at all . ’
12 For most Southern advertisers and agencies , however , 1993 will be a year of hanging on at any cost .
13 Most conductors just sit down at that point and , beyond making sure that the orchestra kept up with the stage , leave the music to its own devices .
14 I sit down at this desk with a ledger .
15 And , since she , too , was n't at all hungry — and would have done practically anything to avoid having to sit down at such an overtly romantic candle-lit dinner — she reluctantly agreed to his suggestion .
16 The highlight of the Festival for us was really the International Violin Competition , which went on all day for 4 days ; 28 competitors played three different programmes , the ‘ survivors ’ being whittled down at each stage .
17 Nevertheless , given the one-roomed hovels many lived in at that period , there may indeed have been a real improvement .
18 He lived in at that time just over the road er down the road here and then something went wrong during the war that was over my father and er cos matter of fact when my father come off the dredger erm the Harbourmaster wanted to give him er he give him the push and turned round and he said my father name was .
19 No , well he was he I knew him quite well because I lived in at that time when I w was on that T V series , I lived at Pinner .
20 Lumps of excrement and sodden pieces of toilet paper lie in the water in a state which suggests they have not been broken down at all .
21 Well that he does he usually goes down at half six quarter to seven .
22 His grandparents usually chip in at this point .
23 Folly tried to protest that she did n't want to go in at all , but her guide 's businesslike attitude and obvious haste made it difficult to intervene .
24 Whatever desperate or mundane disappointments might lie ahead , as we gazed down at those phantoms from another age I felt that we had become travellers in time .
25 It was cold in the stadium and a leaden sky threatened to weep down at any moment on the small crowd assembled below .
26 Patrick squirmed uncomfortably in the jumper and the trousers , which were at least two sizes too large for him — he felt as if they were going to fall down at any moment .
27 where you 're just watching , helping , washing a few cups with somebody and , and then going on a course one or two days a week , and then you 're consider whether being took on and even if you 're not took on at that place at least you 've got something to say you 've done when you 're
28 On the one hand , the memorandum of association must qualify the company 's ability to provide surveying services , to the effect that such business must be carried on at all times in accordance with the Rules of Conduct for the time being of the RICS .
29 So if we 'd have carried on at that
30 If things carried on at this pace , she and Johnny would find themselves meeting every day .
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