Example sentences of "[conj] [adv prt] at [noun] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | The proportion of children aged 10 or over at adoption , however , has increased considerably since 1976 ( from 20 per cent to 28 per cent ) while the proportion of infants adopted under two years of age has decreased slightly ( from 26 to 25 percent ) ( Central Statistical Office , 1988 ) . |
| 2 | Lubrication in the woman , like erection in the man , is not under conscious control and can not be turned on or off at will . |
| 3 | Lasts all day so you can hop on or off at leisure to visit attractions en route . |
| 4 | They are largely nocturnal , spending their days either down the burrows or out at sea gliding on stiff wings . |
| 5 | If you are busy at home or out at work ( and perhaps you have others to look after as well ) it can be hard to envisage any free time . |
| 6 | All through my teens it had to be a very rainy Sunday indeed that did not find us perched on the Cow and Calf a crop of murderous rocks resembling neither cows , calves nor any other animal , ' or out at Bolton Abbey , negotiating the stepping-stones across the wide but shallow Wharfe ; or eating our sandwiches on Haworth Moor as we looked down on the Brontes ' parsonage and re-enacted the highlights from Wuthering Heights in our romantic young heads . |
| 7 | The rest bobbed up and down at chin height , or remained by the bathing-machine steps . |
| 8 | That , in some cases , that has been explored for the storage of heat in the summer which you would then use in the winter , but everywhere one comes back to storage nuclear power stations can not be turned up and down quickly at the moment , so either with electricity you have to have a uniform demand for electricity , or you have to , say , burn gas to provide an alternative way of generating electricity which can be turned up and down at will . |
| 9 | ‘ My form was up and down at Manly but so was the form of the team . |
| 10 | It flashed through my mind that it was someone who was allowed out in the grounds of Bourani and down at Moutsa only on pain of keeping herself concealed . |
| 11 | The whole hotel of which this was the Sanctum sanctorum gave an impression of earlier magnificence now a little dusty and down at heel . |
| 12 | ‘ She 'll be scrawny and down at heel , I bet . |
| 13 | There was an oily cap on the top shelf of the wardrobe and a pair of much worn and down at heel working boots under the bed . |
| 14 | Each room was wired on a different circuit so that the lights in it could be switched on and off at will . |
| 15 | " The cabinet diplomacy at which ( Bismarck ) excelled in the 1860s was no longer possible in the 1880s ; public opinion was beginning to influence policy making it impossible to turn friendships on and off at will . " |
| 16 | The Eclipse is exceptionally easy to control , with mains electric ignition , a slow cooking facility , a plate warmer ( in the grill area ) and an oven timer which you can pre-set to switch the oven on and off at times convenient to you ( perhaps while you 're busy entertaining guests before the meal ) . |
| 17 | I was at that time calling on and off at Faber 's , sometimes seeing Eliot and sometimes missing him . |
| 18 | Visual images flashed on and off at fractions of a second to imprint themselves on the subconscious mind . |
| 19 | Pete glanced at it and up at Marcus , and looked uncomfortable . |
| 20 | The pound is down at one-dollar fifty-seven , and up at two-marks , forty-three . |
| 21 | And up at two-marks forty-five . . |
| 22 | ‘ Not till it 's all over , ’ Cowley said , looking out and up at Bodie . |
| 23 | And out at sea the same companies ' trawlers suck up their catches through giant vacuum pipes … with little thought to the future of the region 's fish stocks . |
| 24 | Try offering a titbit , or a small quantity of nuts in your hand as the mare goes in and out at shoulder height . |
| 25 | She will be stabled at night and out at grass during the day in the winter . |
| 26 | Separate figures must be available for information not only for those selling and serving , but also for those who have prepared for ages beforehand in greenhouse and kitchen , in Davidson Room and Undercroft cupboard , and out at Currie where philately rules for a considerable time . |
| 27 | Not for more than a few minutes ; just time enough to look around with his eyes , around and back at things that had happened to him . |
| 28 | A special service to Great Missenden on Monday afternoon was cancelled due to operating difficulties and members of Aylesbury Vale District Council , including the Mayor , travelled in Victorian costume to Quainton and back at lunchtime . |
| 29 | By now it was time to fly again , and back at Bigo airport we prepared to go to Portugal . |
| 30 | The operation had apparently been quite straightforward ; Kirsty was home in under a week and back at work after a month , with no obvious after-effects . |