Example sentences of "[adv] [vb pp] [adv prt] at " in BNC.
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| 1 | Their rooms at the Royal Albion Hotel were just a few doors from each other and it was Ken 's job to see that she always had her mug of cocoa before going to bed — and indeed that she was warmly tucked up at the right time for a lady of her years and responsibilities . |
| 2 | With only three minutes remaining in their Sharwood 's Irish Senior Cup semi-final clash against Pegasus , Sinead , who had only come on at the start of the second-half , popped up to score the only goal of the game . |
| 3 | We are concerned in fact that er the western nations did n't rather deplore earlier er Hussein 's actions against his own people using chemical weapons , and we think it 's a shame for us that we 've only come in at this point , and we must come in carefully I think . |
| 4 | And he denied a suggestion that the health promotion role could be better carried out at district health authority level because of the need to take an overall view of priorities . |
| 5 | In fact it seemed that at that time ( early 1977 ) sexual examination had become common practice at Heathrow Immigration Department , apparently carried out at the whim of the officials . |
| 6 | Noreen suddenly looked up at the Italian woman . |
| 7 | She was reassured when he suddenly looked down at her and winked appreciatively . |
| 8 | She was a docile creature and merely looked round at me as she cropped the grass ; and her eyes were no longer sunken but bright and full . |
| 9 | Most people are amazed at our continuing friendship , but no malice is intended : even her nephew , Crawford , good-humouredly looked up at her recently purchased Venetian chandelier and asked , ‘ Aunt Margaret , is that plastic ? ’ |
| 10 | True , he gets himself so wound up at times that he ca n't help himself . |
| 11 | ‘ The sandwiches 'll be all curled up at the edges , ’ his mum complained . |
| 12 | Had she herself perhaps dropped off at one point ? |
| 13 | Knighthoods go to the class acts , the Andrew Lloyd Webbers of this world , as well as the dull but self-important people who have merely turned up at their desks in Whitehall for enough years . |
| 14 | A Sergeant with a crudely reconstructed pink blob of a nose — obviously bitten off at some stage in his professional or previous career — sat at a damascened bronze data-desk stained green with cupreous patina . |
| 15 | The impromptu petition was apparently drawn up at a dinner given by the Society of Dilettanti and sent to the Arts Minister , Mr Richard Luce . |
| 16 | As far as any of them knew , the last elephant fights had taken place around the turn of the century in the princely states of Rajputana ; and as for partridge fights , said my friends , those sorts of Mughal traditions had all died out at Partition . |
| 17 | They three boys — and Sara — was all brought up at Trebyan and they was all at the village school . |
| 18 | Kevin O'Neil suddenly arrived back at Ballytreabhair — ‘ for a wee holiday ’ he explained to his mother . |
| 19 | For one brief moment I felt the full shock of its death ; of a life , until recently , so remote , so inextricably part of the mountains and forests , now suddenly laid out at my feet . |
| 20 | The electrodes for that are only linked up at intervals , of course , since they have to be directly attached to his scalp . |
| 21 | In several European countries there were disclosures during November concerning clandestine anti-communist units , apparently set up at the height of the Cold War in the 1950s and intended to lie dormant for activation in the event of a communist takeover . |
| 22 | Mark I feel the same , extremely pissed off at Wilko . |
| 23 | Lamont was given a lower profile for the second week — prompting a Neil Kinnock joke that he was only allowed out at night . |
| 24 | Yeah , I 'll have it in a minute I 'm all glued up at the moment . |
| 25 | Some of the Prince 's friends were also somewhat put out at having their cosy relationship altered by the distraction of a young wife . |
| 26 | Prickett , a former captain of the Wanderers , has been warmly welcomed back at the Memorial Grounds . |
| 27 | Necessarily strung out at no more than three abreast , the column threaded the mile or so cautiously , Ramsay for one , keen-eyed to note danger-spots and ambush possibilities for future reference . |
| 28 | That is , people tend to forget either in a motivated way , or accidentally , people will tend to minimise or trivialise the abuse to which they 've been subject in some cases because maybe saying that you 've been sexually abused as a child and that is why you 're so screwed up at the moment um that 's not necessarily a very self-benefiting thing to say . |
| 29 | However the Earl John had duly turned up at Edinburgh , with one hundred and fifty men and the information that the enemy had passed well to the east of Doune . |
| 30 | But in this particular lesson the decision structure is something of a mirage , for as we have already pointed out at this stage the situation is not real enough for these children to be making anything but a superficial gesture — going through the motions of making a decision . |