Example sentences of "[adv prt] at the [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Widely known for his anti-Maastricht politics , Fillon says that he wants to avoid ‘ getting bogged down at the EC level … whose cumbersome procedures put a damper on the research community ’ . |
| 2 | ‘ What 's going down at the Mimosa ? ’ |
| 3 | Currently bending the air waves on Radio Ulster , and regulars on BBC 's ‘ Talk Back ’ programme , they 've gigged the North and brought houses down at the Edinburgh Fringe . |
| 4 | Thousands of young volunteers , who had abandoned civilian safety to enlist in Kitchener 's great New Army , were cut down at the Somme , and their comrades disillusioned . |
| 5 | Mr Smith , a man of about forty with large soft bags under his eyes , leant over his paper-strewn desk and looked down at the No-Nonsense pen he was fiddling with , Steven watched the pen . |
| 6 | He stared down at the Hoflin farm , then clumped back to the car . |
| 7 | The real crunch came , however , in the sketch that regularly brought the roof down at the Apollo . |
| 8 | She gazed down at the London horizon , its tranquillity pierced by hulks of office buildings . |
| 9 | In one of her favourites , she and Simon were down at the Lock , picnicking on one of the half-buried concrete blocks . |
| 10 | These are nervous times down at the Manor Ground . |
| 11 | With the rain teeming down at the Manor , Italy seemed a long way off — too far for United . |
| 12 | Lily said he was wasting his money , and he was ; they were all papists down at the Bridewell . |
| 13 | It was he who lent Hardy the money to go to Paris : he who decided to take Hardy 's hopeful acting career under his wing and get him an audition with ‘ my father ’ down at the Cardiff studios , where Philip 's radio play gave him an entree . |
| 14 | I 'll pop in and see you sometime when I 'm down at the RAF |
| 15 | Steve was a new face to me but Paul I already knew from playing football against him down at the Lillie Road recreation ground . |
| 16 | " Down at the Artilleryman 's ? " |
| 17 | Down at the Goldstone Ground . |
| 18 | MY mate Chalkie down at The York reckons his missus must be descended from Noah . |
| 19 | At last , however , the Radio One crew were told they might get 10 minutes maximum down at the Disney Studios where Madonna as rehearsing for her world tour . |
| 20 | Magda ze Schluderpacheru had something surplus down at the Silver Shuriken . ’ |
| 21 | But there are still 9 pistols untraced following the break in at the Dunmore Shooting Centre last week . |
| 22 | But there are still 9 pistols untraced following the break in at the Dunmore Shooting Centre last week . |
| 23 | I did n't know quite where or how or with whom but I was going to turn in at the Gendarmerie and take it from there . |
| 24 | When Coffin returned from central London late that night , he looked in at the TAS office . |
| 25 | Like the ‘ Samson ’ , it is an important rediscovery , once in the Demidoff Collection , that had been missing for decades and was last seen in at the C.L.Cardon sale in Brussels in 1921 . |
| 26 | He 's an archetypal nice bloke who is the first to get his round in at the Blighty Bar , an after-hours drinking club which we establish on the steps of the hotel after we discover that Tokyo shuts at 10.30 . |
| 27 | She seemed flabbergasted , but rallied and asked me if I would look in at the Gray Mare in Kilburn and say ‘ hello ’ to her son Joe Kelly who worked there . |
| 28 | Remembering Philippe Bonard 's invitation to use the pool whenever she wished , she decided to call in at the Auberge de la Fontaine and pick up her swimming costume . |
| 29 | One of soccer 's great trouble-shooters clocked in at the Cadbury 's chocolate factory where Rovers train but the last thing that greeted him was the sweet smell of success . |
| 30 | However , our editor asks me to look in at the United States ; so be it . |