Example sentences of "[adv] [adv prt] at [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In winter the small heaters were only on at night and the runs were open to the weather all day . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | The girl in the red jacket looked carelessly down at Gabriel , and told her man to drive on , without even thanking the farmer . |
| 6 | It was all over at Brentford on Good Friday . |
| 7 | Yeah , she invited us all over at Christmas |
| 8 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 9 | I know I 'm better off at home at the moment . |
| 10 | I 'd be better off at home with all those kids ! |
| 11 | ‘ Nor have I ever suggested to any working woman that she 'd be better off at home where she belongs . |
| 12 | Thus annoying Mrs Drubb and convincing her that she would be better off at Almsmead looking after Amabel . |
| 13 | In some ways , he may be better off at Birmingham — nearer to Richard , & to all his pals and usual haunts . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | We are 9lb better off at Ayr so we 've got to fancy our chances . ’ |
| 16 | Keegan knows he 's better off at Newcastle . |
| 17 | The two unsynchronized tapes were then simply mixed together back at base before being transferred to disc . |
| 18 | ‘ Sunday : Kids are suddenly back at school tomorrow and have to be labelled . |
| 19 | Red faces all round at Chase Manhattan following a foray into London 's docklands in search of new offices . |
| 20 | Bit of a washout all round at school , really . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | Colebrooke marched up and down as if he was on parade whilst Mistress Philippa leaned against the wall , looking sorrowfully down at Tower Green . |
| 23 | The first machines are already in at Columbia University in New York City and at the Bergische Universitat in Wuppertal . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | Joseph followed Suit with Dong , and when the commotion died own and they had bidden the Annamese boys goodnight , he and Paul stripped off their shirts and walked over to the bamboo skinning platform where Chuck was already back at work on his buffalo hide . |
| 26 | Already back at work today , Mrs Williams said she had n't had time to be frightened . |
| 27 | Finally back at base , it 's amazing what a five-star hotel can do to revive the spirits . |
| 28 | Meanwhile back at Tenbury , the holly and mistletoe were fetching up to a pound for a pound in weight . |
| 29 | Meanwhile back at Brooklands , he test flew the new Parsons biplane , and one of the first flying test-beds — a Maurice Farman ‘ Pusher ’ aeroplane in which the new Sunbeam engine was installed . |
| 30 | Then an immature gannet came into view away out at sea , a huge bird , still in mottled dark brown plumage . |