Example sentences of "[vb pp] [adv prt] at [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Cambridge University lecturer Carl Swann , 36 , had checked in at Amsterdam 's Schiphol airport for a flight to Manchester just before an El Al cargo plane hit a nearby block of flats . |
| 2 | David was always getting picked on at school ! |
| 3 | If you generally only go out as a treat , a commitment to healthy eating will mean that you want to choose dishes that build on the good work you have carried on at home . |
| 4 | The company carried on at Brookhouse , under various members of the family . |
| 5 | Whereupon Stoker , gifted with Dublin 's malice , wrote instead a novel — about a bloodsucking , ennobled gentleman whose business was carried on at night , in or around grand dramatic buildings . |
| 6 | He was heavily into drugs by the time he left school and carried on at Cambridge . ’ |
| 7 | The mill also housed a bakehouse on the lower floor , several bake-ovens set in the rear wall being largely intact , surviving as a reminder of what was once an important local trade , carried on at Aston mill for over a century . |
| 8 | Sour old Mr Piggott , who had looked in at St Andrew 's , let fall an ejaculation quite unsuitable to its surroundings , and emerging from the vestry door , crunched purposefully and maliciously upon a piece of coke to relieve his feelings . |
| 9 | In fact , much so-called juvenile water is probably either rainwater that has circulated to great depths , or water that was trapped in rocks that have been carried down at subduction zones ( see Inside Science , No. 6 , 23 February 1988 ) . |
| 10 | It depends how often we can actually get the chiropodist , but she 's been very , very good recently and she 's come along at request , so we 're fortunate in that area . |
| 11 | It had n't taken her long to clear out her room at the nurses ' home this morning , and her father had come over at lunch to take several boxes of things back to his suburban home for storage . |
| 12 | The current , soon to retire , director of the Association , who came with me to meet him had been in London for a meeting of the environmental advisory group for and so he was having a taxi to Kings Cross which I jumped into too and got dropped off at Goodge Street , right outside the door of my next ( Industrial Editors ) meeting with just a few minutes to spare , so that went more smoothly than one might have ever dreamt or hoped for . |
| 13 | The 24-year-old central defender was carried off at Tranmere Rovers on Friday night when his knee locked . |
| 14 | Oldham v Barnsley Dobbin , the Barnsley midfielder carried off at Blackpool in midweek , has made a good recovery from a knee injury and may play . |
| 15 | Remember also , the pitfalls for children of ‘ tickly ’ yarns ( I hate that jumper , it tickles ) , of necks being too tight ( I 'll never wear that thing again ) when ears have almost been severed off at bedtime ! |
| 16 | Then , after chewing and swallowing the fragrant morsel , and after a sip of the strong green Longjing ch'a — itself ‘ untasted ’ — he had looked up at Beth Shepherd and smiled broadly , complimenting her on the dish . |
| 17 | so Spark looked up at Tony and said you sure you 're a fucking fitter . |
| 18 | ‘ I was thinking I 'm going to be picked up at JFK and they 'll be expecting a black feminist and they 'll realise they 've got the wrong author . ’ |
| 19 | — If he got the answers he expected , that Rhoda had kept William Egan 's money in some hiding place and that Roxie had been looking after her brother 's moneybags , and that all three women had been spending what they were supposed to be hoarding , then he knew what was causing the atmosphere he had picked up at Roxie 's house . |
| 20 | This kind of treatment caused resentment among the petty-minded officialdom which ran the British professional game , and when Boomer was chosen for the 1927 Ryder Cup team he was picked up at Cherbourg en route to America and made to wear what every Frenchman was supposed to wear — a beret . |
| 21 | True , he gets himself so wound up at times that he ca n't help himself . |
| 22 | She , she gets all wound up at home and then comes to work and where there 's people to sound off about , everything under the er the sun . |
| 23 | Lightweight inexpensive fabrics like cheesecloth and muslin can be shirred and hung between rods , wires or traverse poles attached below the ceiling and above the skirting or baseboards , and either caught back at doors and windows or fixed around them ( with rods or wires attached to the top of the frames ) . |
| 24 | Tommaso had not come back at Ascension , though some others who 'd been called to military service at the same time walked into town one afternoon . |
| 25 | would have come back at M S three . |
| 26 | You knew who was Black if they were a colleague , and who was gay if they had come out at work . |
| 27 | EIGHT Yorkshire miners , trapped for 15 hours behind thousands of tons of rock , coal and twisted steel half a mile underground , are expected back at work today after what British Coal described as ‘ a stunningly successful ’ rescue operation . |
| 28 | On completion of the conservation programme the Firefly was officially rolled out at Duxford on June 2 , in company with the IWM 's Fairey Gannet XG797 and Sea Hawk WM969 , both of which had been subjected to a similar conservation programme . |
| 29 | It reached fruition on 4 Sep 6 , when the " Falcon 50 " was rolled out at Bordeaux , and made its maiden flight on 7 Nov 76 . |
| 30 | The sentence was carried out at Trier , but Priscillian 's body was carried back to Spain and buried in Galicia . |