Example sentences of "[noun sg] [conj] [adv prt] at " 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 No more will they curse the need to haul luggage and children onto the London Underground and off at another station to catch their next train .
3 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 .
4 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 .
5 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 .
6 They went down an alleyway and in at a door .
7 Fräulein was not in her room but down at the party .
8 Just grab the knife up over head and down at the table .
9 On the way back across the lake I dragged my ankle in the cold water and back at camp kept it elevated with cold cloths , then Kaz wrapped it in an ice bandage .
10 She will be stabled at night and out at grass during the day in the winter .
11 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 ) .
12 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 .
13 For mature students ( those 21 years of age and over at the time of entry ) the relationship was particularly weak .
14 Are you sure she 's not just in the garden or down at the jetty or somewhere ? ’
15 There 's a moment when he looks away from the camera and down at the floor and softly says , ‘ Nobody 's young any more …
16 He is now in excellent health and back at work , maintained on 6 mg per day oral FK506 and 5 mg prednisolone .
17 With three blocks removed , it was just the right length for riding on at one end and off at the other .
18 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 .
19 Laura took in the boundless wealth surrounding her , the possibilities of power , she gazed back at the golden coffin of the false messiah and back at Jonathan .
20 ‘ ‘ Go out the front and in at the back ! ' ’
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