Example sentences of "[vb pp] [adv prt] at [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The highlight of the Festival for us was really the International Violin Competition , which went on all day for 4 days ; 28 competitors played three different programmes , the ‘ survivors ’ being whittled down at each stage . |
| 2 | Lumps of excrement and sodden pieces of toilet paper lie in the water in a state which suggests they have not been broken down at all . |
| 3 | where you 're just watching , helping , washing a few cups with somebody and , and then going on a course one or two days a week , and then you 're consider whether being took on and even if you 're not took on at that place at least you 've got something to say you 've done when you 're |
| 4 | On the one hand , the memorandum of association must qualify the company 's ability to provide surveying services , to the effect that such business must be carried on at all times in accordance with the Rules of Conduct for the time being of the RICS . |
| 5 | So if we 'd have carried on at that |
| 6 | If things carried on at this pace , she and Johnny would find themselves meeting every day . |
| 7 | If the investment managers had to come in they could have come in at any time . |
| 8 | Cos it 's an outdoor job , it 's a three shift system for those on the bottom , er early , morning and late , cos the eight hour day had come in at this time . |
| 9 | We are concerned in fact that er the western nations did n't rather deplore earlier er Hussein 's actions against his own people using chemical weapons , and we think it 's a shame for us that we 've only come in at this point , and we must come in carefully I think . |
| 10 | I tell you , if a helicopter had come down at that customs post , there would have been no stopping me . |
| 11 | The ladies ' K4 500m was slotted in at this point and although Dallaway/Davey/Eastwood/Thorogood were 8th in their heat they went into a semi final which acted as a repêchage . |
| 12 | A fill can be dropped in at any time while the pattern is playing . |
| 13 | A fill can be dropped in at any time while the pattern is playing . |
| 14 | In that early ‘ moment ’ , rock 'n' roll was an important intervention though carried through at varying levels of conscious awareness . |
| 15 | It was as if the news had never come through at all . |
| 16 | The Government can not be unaware that women are frightened to travel alone at night in isolated places , to wait in bus depots where no staff are present , or to be dropped off at bus-rail links at isolated railway stations where there is no one to guard them against possible danger . |
| 17 | Had she herself perhaps dropped off at one point ? |
| 18 | Some pests are large enough to be gathered and destroyed by hand : caterpillars can be picked off at any time , while slugs and snails around vulnerable plants are easily collected by torchlight on moist evenings . |
| 19 | than my job then he said I presume you 've got mixed feelings , I said no my feelings are n't mixed up at all , I 'm quite , I 'm quite sure of my feelings of what I know , I said David I would n't associate myself , I would n't drink and I would n't go out with anybody in this building and he nearly fell over and he said dare I ask why ? |
| 20 | It is the amount of this payment which determines whether the business is being hived up at less or more than cost or market value for the purposes of the value-shifting provisions described above . |
| 21 | My hic hyacinths have all come out except no , they 've all come out , one goron l looks like it 's gone and lot congealed little bad and another hyacinth has two have come up and other ones not come up at all . |
| 22 | I do n't know if that 's come up at any point . |
| 23 | One age 's misfortune is another 's good luck and a result of this flight from urban squalor and an exceptionally turbulent working class was that , in the early 20th century , when the new Bristol University was looking to expand , there was a whole chain of classical villas with their attendant small parks all waiting to be picked up at knock-down prices . |
| 24 | After taking a series of measurements I put a numbered ring on each bird 's leg so that if one came to grief and was picked up at some time in the future , its identity could be established . |
| 25 | Normally she would have clammed up at that juncture . |
| 26 | Since then blacks have got richer at almost the same rate as whites , but they have not caught up at all . |
| 27 | Lord Halifax and the other grand residents got us booted out at last . |
| 28 | He had seen his earliest pupils , as had my father , either not come back at all , or come back broken men . |
| 29 | What I , what I 'd like to do is , we can say that we 're we can make er a profit or a loss and we can give the figure , so this might have come out at seven thousand two hundred whatever . |
| 30 | Throughout the east Midlands ash trees were planted along the hedges , less often the elm , usually spaced out at wide intervals . |