Example sentences of "[adv prt] [art] [noun] at " in BNC.
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| 1 | By limited liability the state is encouraging management to use shareholder funds in more risky ventures than they would otherwise undertake , and then pass on the liability at a time for forced liquidation , to third parties . |
| 2 | Bowled over … the girls taking on the boys at their own game . |
| 3 | Taking on the presidency at a low point in Italian political life ( his predecessor , Giovanni Leone , had resigned over the Lockheed scandal , and Prime Minister Aldo Moro had recently been assassinated by the Red Brigades — see pp. 29053-55 ) , Pertini was credited with restoring the country 's confidence and self-respect . |
| 4 | The doctor must come from virtually nowhere if he is to join the powerful Irish representation which is anticipated will cross the Atlantic to take on the Americans at the height of summer . |
| 5 | ‘ If I did , ’ Mandeville snapped , ‘ the murderer would be hanging on the gibbet at Smithfield ! ’ |
| 6 | ‘ For Christ 's sake , Pat , not the big fat rabbit that was in the hutch hanging on the wall at the back of the house ? ’ |
| 7 | Gleizes and Metzinger stressed that Cubist painting had no specifically decorative function , and that it did not attain its full meaning only when hung on the wall at eye level . |
| 8 | HANGING on the wall at Ted Fletcher Court is a picture known as The Crying Boy . |
| 9 | Tomorrow the Parks take on the Provincials at Carrick while at Pickie in Bangor the Private Greens meet the BLI . |
| 10 | Hassan Hamdan , aged seven , was shot in the head by a sniper when he switched on the light at his bedroom in Mossaitbeh , a poor residential district controlled by Amal . |
| 11 | He describes himself as a ‘ TV animal ’ who switches on the set at home as soon as he walks through the door . |
| 12 | Dumps are increasingly required to have special liners to stop moisture from seeping in ; to collect and treat any liquid that does get in ; to monitor the waste that is added to a dump ; and to provide for shutting down the landfill at the end of its life and cleaning up any environmental damage that may come later . |
| 13 | Using a small hammer and 10-mm ( ⅜-in ) nails , press down the hardboard at one end of the backing sheet and hammer a nail into the frame , then do the same at the other end of the sheet , to balance the pressure on the back . |
| 14 | Batting down the order at No. 8 , he scored 144 not out , which included a last-wicket stand of 80 in 35 minutes , his partner making only two of those runs . |
| 15 | Where a stream flows off the higher rocks ( the Millstone Grit ) on to the limestone , a large flow of water passes down the joints at that one place . |
| 16 | ‘ Bitch , ’ I screamed down the phone at her then , remembering how much they like dogs here , I shouted in English , ‘ Whore ! |
| 17 | When O put down the phone at the end of this first call , he did not know how to say goodbye to Boy ; he did not know what name to use . |
| 18 | It was a monologue called ‘ Good News ’ , in which Beattie enthused down the phone at great length to a young man who 'd apparently done her the most enormous good turn . |
| 19 | ‘ My father , Leslie , was his agent and I remember my father screaming down the phone at Joseph , usually about money ! |
| 20 | He found himself hovering for a dangerous moment between pity and fear and he fought down the pity at once , for it was not to be thought of that he should feel such an emotion for this evil being . |
| 21 | ‘ Darling I 'm so proud of you , ’ he said as she walked down the staircase at Clarence House . |
| 22 | In making up , sew down the strip at the lower edge of the cable at the back and thread it up through the cable twist to sew it in at the top . |
| 23 | Glowing out at night — by bike with luminous tyres which allow more safety when speeding down the roads at night . |
| 24 | Crouched low to the ground , Zambia fled across the yard and down the alley at the back . |
| 25 | She went down the passage at a pace that would have left any wounded snails simply nowhere , and tapped at his sitting-room door . |
| 26 | When he put down the papers at last he looked abstracted . |
| 27 | British Coal refused to let 150 miners go down the pit at Silverhill , Mansfield . |
| 28 | Open the slam-shell door and climb aboard : even the smell of brand-new airliners rolling down the lines at the gigantic Clément Ader factory in Toulouse is duplicated . |
| 29 | Apart from growth lines , the outer surface of the shell may be smooth , or there may be a series of raised ridges ( cords ) running down the whorls at right angles to the lip . |
| 30 | Beau finished halfway down the field at the end of Day 2 . |