Example sentences of "[adv] [vb -s] [adv] at " in BNC.
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| 1 | D J LONG TURNS UP AT ROSH INTELLIGENT SYSTEMS |
| 2 | He only glances up at the television occasionally , as he is intent on finishing these as quickly as possible in order to give himself ti me to write a letter home to his wife . |
| 3 | Her hatred towards the Provos who blew up her son in Northern Ireland constantly eats away at her . |
| 4 | To support himself and his wife , Edith , he daily gets up at 2.30am to work at Richmond bakery . |
| 5 | It only ventures out at night , and spends most of its time up in trees or scrambling through scrub . |
| 6 | She only does part-time at an estate agent 's , but audio typing is demanding on concentration . |
| 7 | The fine , romantic handwriting suddenly leaps out at me again from the surrounding porridge of the Quaker Oats archive . |
| 8 | no the English news only comes on at half past ten at night and then you 'll get what they wanted to hear , so you do n't have to listen to the World Service |
| 9 | The first thing to remember is that as you turn the boat away from the wind , you let out the mainsheet , the sail only works properly at one angle to the wind and so it 's essential to let out the mainsheet as you bear away . |
| 10 | She just sits there at me . |
| 11 | Doing routine drug screening on urine samples at pre-employment examinations — and even at other times as a matter of Company policy — may produce surprisingly high positive results but this information is not as accurate an indicator of addictive disease in general as a consistently clear set of personnel records noting information that the Company already has readily at its disposal . |
| 12 | The baby 's due in August , but the DJ with the most popular radio show in Britain already looks quite at home in his role of first time father-to-be . |
| 13 | I ask him if he 'll tell me the story again , but he just looks over at me and shakes his head . |
| 14 | When an echo from a distant object finally arrives back at the bat , it will be an " older " echo than an echo that is simultaneously arriving back from a near object . |
| 15 | The process normally occurs only at temperatures and pressures comparable with those found at the centre of the sun . |
| 16 | Yeah , the front just hinges off at the top . |
| 17 | The most prestigious site in Belfast is thought to be prismatics site on Ann Street , which normally works out at £350 for two weeks . |
| 18 | Or there may have been a sudden and unexpected explosion in the local mouse population , leading to a spate of hunting and killing by a pet cat that normally feeds only at home . |
| 19 | Well that he does he usually goes down at half six quarter to seven . |
| 20 | The only potential for sorrow in the poem is the age of Asophus , Florimelia 's father , who nonetheless sleeps easily at night since his virtue and simplicity are better than the vanities of wealth . |
| 21 | He usually sits up at the window . |
| 22 | Jokes that have to be explained lose nearly all their force , and no one ever laughs spontaneously at the explication of a joke ; even the terms we have at our disposal in English to discuss literature of this kind — comedy , humour , amusement , ridicule — are full of ambiguities demanding pedantic caution on the part of anyone who uses them in an analytical way . |
| 23 | According to the Observer , she always goes home at 6 p.m . |
| 24 | Car production still goes on at Cowley , but there is nostalgia for these old buildings . |
| 25 | Cut the loaf into about 12 slices , making sure that it still holds together at the base . |
| 26 | Green talks a good deal in an inflated style , and always looks sideways at the object he is speaking to ; when he looks directly forward , it is at some piece of furniture or other inanimate object , still talking all the while . |
| 27 | Aye and what happens is , it usually starts in at the corner of your finger |
| 28 | If you rationalise it by saying I do n't want a row because I 've got so much on my plate , it usually bounces back at you , often in an amplified form . |
| 29 | Corrosion within heating systems gradually eats away at the insides of steel radiators to form iron oxides — the brown or black sludge that is so familiar to any d-i-y plumber . |
| 30 | Dane O'Hara probably still wakes up at night and sees Ferguson oscillating in front of him . |