Example sentences of "[adv] [adv prt] at [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mirth being in decidedly short supply over the past few weeks amidst the myriad financial scandals and news of the ongoing long-gingering of the gay law reform bill , there was no doubt among the many disappointed punters turned away from the full house on opening night that they were still intent on partying on down at Cork 's new lesbian and gay centre , The Other Place . |
| 2 | Get on down at gigs |
| 3 | " And let it be said , " Harry went on , " now we 're talking straight , that Miss Jennifer here can forget all the Romish ideas she was fed on down at Roscarrock Hall and start eating Protestant pie , which she 'll find suits a Cornish stomach a sight better than all that hocus-pocus-nomminy-domminy rubbish they peddle down at Holy Joe 's . |
| 4 | In winter the small heaters were only on at night and the runs were open to the weather all day . |
| 5 | An overnight weights-rise of 9lb puts Tom Troubadour nicely in at 10st 1lb and he can continue the winning sequence which has brought stylish victories in handicaps at Newbury . |
| 6 | So down at squadron level we had this very much in our minds when in time the orders came down through Group , through station , right to the people who had to do the carting and the bombing , I feel I should explain right at the outset that I can only view at the later stages of the war the state of morale as I saw it in the entire Pathfinder Force . |
| 7 | In February 1991 , he was offered the manager 's job at Birmingham City , an English Third Division club , who at the time were so down at heel they resembled an inveterate gambler staggering from one bad bet to another . |
| 8 | The girl in the red jacket looked carelessly down at Gabriel , and told her man to drive on , without even thanking the farmer . |
| 9 | It was all over at Brentford on Good Friday . |
| 10 | Yeah , she invited us all over at Christmas |
| 11 | ‘ As I remember it , on the occasion when she first accosted us , you told her that she would be better off at home with a baby on her knee . ’ |
| 12 | I know I 'm better off at home at the moment . |
| 13 | I 'd be better off at home with all those kids ! |
| 14 | ‘ Nor have I ever suggested to any working woman that she 'd be better off at home where she belongs . |
| 15 | Thus annoying Mrs Drubb and convincing her that she would be better off at Almsmead looking after Amabel . |
| 16 | In some ways , he may be better off at Birmingham — nearer to Richard , & to all his pals and usual haunts . |
| 17 | Harry laughed about this , saying that childbirth was like shelling peas to a woman , and that he 's be better off at sea after the mackerel than moping about at home and getting in the way of the womenfolk . |
| 18 | We are 9lb better off at Ayr so we 've got to fancy our chances . ’ |
| 19 | Keegan knows he 's better off at Newcastle . |
| 20 | The two unsynchronized tapes were then simply mixed together back at base before being transferred to disc . |
| 21 | ‘ Sunday : Kids are suddenly back at school tomorrow and have to be labelled . |
| 22 | Red faces all round at Chase Manhattan following a foray into London 's docklands in search of new offices . |
| 23 | Bit of a washout all round at school , really . |
| 24 | The Head Girl of Malvern Girls ' College and a scientist contemporary represented the Upper VI , and here again they had different backgrounds , one having joined the school from a smaller boarding school for the Vl form , and the other having gone right through at Malvern . |
| 25 | By now , it was raining enough for the covers to go on over at Wimbledon . |
| 26 | It was an amazing amount of wine they got through down at Wyvis Hall , and not only wine . |
| 27 | not in at weekends Joyce |
| 28 | Colebrooke marched up and down as if he was on parade whilst Mistress Philippa leaned against the wall , looking sorrowfully down at Tower Green . |
| 29 | The first machines are already in at Columbia University in New York City and at the Bergische Universitat in Wuppertal . |
| 30 | From his high-rise office Carson looked out over the roofs of Rome , then at the colonel across the desk , then finally up at Hawkins . |