Example sentences of "[conj] [adv prt] at [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In prisons , in the trenches , in the factory canteen or down at the dole office , it helps to cushion the harshness of life . |
| 2 | Er very often Australian Aboriginal societies you meet men the corroborees at these ritual gatherings and if you 're one of the club , then in the ritual they 'll tell you , they 'll say hey , you know , you know you know you say where did you get all these kangaroos you know oh we got them over at the so and so ranges or down at the so and so water hole that 's where they all are this week , and this is very important information for man . |
| 3 | Are you sure she 's not just in the garden or down at the jetty or somewhere ? ’ |
| 4 | Slow build up or in at the deep end ? |
| 5 | Indeed in one of the few Scottish studies McDonald ( 1991 ) defines ‘ non-traditional ’ students as all those who are 21 or over at the time of entry to their higher education course . |
| 6 | MacDonald defines non-traditional students as those who are 21 years or over at the commencement of their degree course on the 1st of October . |
| 7 | We also have the latest in up-to-date technology — the TV set in the corner , which has a twin BBC-ITV facility , and , of course , a number of lights that can be turned on or off at the flick of a switch . |
| 8 | Unfortunately as the blocks reached the wall at either side they could not ride on or off at the ends . |
| 9 | A year ago , Selina 's two-hour session of candlelit fund-raising would have gained her nothing more than a clout round the ear ( I 'd have done it nice , mind you , not in the restaurant or anything like that but in the Fiasco or back at the sock ) . |
| 10 | ‘ Not unpleasant , perhaps , ’ he said thoughtfully , ‘ but you have n't exactly gone out of your way to make me feel welcome — either here or back at the television studio . ’ |
| 11 | He seemed to be possessed of a driving need to review and revitalise everything , calling for frequent staff meetings , inviting ideas on production methods and working schedules , and when he was n't at his desk or out at a meeting he was cooped up with Mike Freeman in the downstairs office or in one of the other departments . |
| 12 | I 'd assumed she was writing in secret , as I was — pursuing a universal dirty habit that demanded solitude and a quiet place — when instead she was watching TV or out at the pub with friends : being social . |
| 13 | Ruth had been to the shops or round at the flat of some girl child never previously mentioned . |
| 14 | The best way to see the City is from the canals and we have included a ‘ Canal Bus ’ Pass , valid for the whole day around the famous canals ; this pass allows you to get off and on at a selection of stops for you to explore the city . |
| 15 | It will bob up and down at a higher rate . |
| 16 | There 's a moment when he looks away from the camera and down at the floor and softly says , ‘ Nobody 's young any more … |
| 17 | Do 20 walking jogs on the spot , raising your arms up and down at the sides . |
| 18 | It had stopped munching away in its stall , pricked up its ears and jerked its head up and down at the powerful voice of the world-famous soprano . |
| 19 | He raised his wings and pulled them back a little , bent his head forward , slightly opened his beak , and lunged forward and down at the white flesh of the hand that was pushing itself with a piece of sandwich through the front bars of his cage . |
| 20 | He stamped up and down at the limit of the firelight and listened to the silence of the hills . |
| 21 | It was working perfectly back in Manchester , when you had it going up and down at the traffic lights to impress those schoolgirls . ’ |
| 22 | The last thing when you 're all in , in when you 're all in , and down at the bottom they curve under like that you know , curve under . |
| 23 | And down at the road there . |
| 24 | Just grab the knife up over head and down at the table . |
| 25 | Well , if I erm said to one of my students something about that was a very good essay you wrote , in fact I 'd like to discuss it a little bit more down at the pub and down at the pub I put my hand on his knee perhaps in making a point about how good his essay was . |
| 26 | For about fifteen minutes he did nothing but sit there contentedly , sipping his coffee and watching their restless , flickering scene around him through half-open eyes : the tall , bearded man with a cigar and a fatuous grin who walked up and down at an unvarying even pace like a clockwork soldier , never looking at anybody ; the plump ageing layabout in a Gestapo officers leather coat and dark glasses holding court outside the door of the cafe , trading secrets and scandal with his men friends , assessing the passers-by as thought they were for sale , calling after women and making hour-glass gestures with his hairy gold-ringed hands ; a frail old man bent like an S , with a crazy harmless expression and a transistor radio pressed to his ear walking with the exaggerated urgency of those who have nowhere to go ; slim Africans with leatherwork belts and bangles laid out on a piece of cloth ; a Gypsy child sitting n the cold stone playing the same four note again and again on a cheap concertina ; two foreigners with guitars an a small crowd around them ; a beggar with his shirt pulled down over one shoulder to reveal the stump of an amputated arm ; a pudgy shapeless women with an open suitcase full of cigarette lighters and bootleg cassettes ; the two Nordic girls at the next table , basking half-naked in the weak March sun as though this might be the last time it appeared this year . |
| 27 | They went down an alleyway and in at a door . |
| 28 | ‘ ‘ Go out the front and in at the back ! ' ’ |
| 29 | That bar in the illustration , had to be lifted up and over at the end of each row to deposit the stitches on to the needles — a great opportunity to drop stitches , which I did most of the time ! |
| 30 | For mature students ( those 21 years of age and over at the time of entry ) the relationship was particularly weak . |