Example sentences of "[vb base] [adv] at the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mark and Babur sit together at the head of the bed , holding hands , looking stunned . |
| 2 | Er but I mean basically at the end of the day , I mean you have to think about to what extent you can increase your sales . |
| 3 | Mangroves are trees that grow right at the edge of the sea , held and nourished through characteristic prop roots that grip the soft mud . |
| 4 | ‘ And that 's why it 's vitally important we retaliate right at the start . ’ |
| 5 | The first English cookery book recipes for tomatoes appear only at the beginning of the nineteenth century . |
| 6 | Indeed , despite the Sixties ' experiments with alternative life-styles , the despised suburban style looks like seeing the century through , for all its drawbacks of loneliness , boredom and exasperation , which made the man in the New Yorker cartoon say plaintively at the cocktail party : ‘ I want to talk about something else besides kids and illness ! ’ |
| 7 | Jane and children plan to fly out to Cape Town when the boats dock there at the end of the third leg in April . |
| 8 | Erm it will react with the aluminium , eat away at the aluminium . |
| 9 | By and large , those extra ’ advantages ’ , as the Labour party calls them , for the employee have to be paid for out of the profits of the organisation as a whole and they eat away at the capital that the business would ultimately have available to reinvest in jobs . |
| 10 | Sit comfortably at the machine and bring the console over to sit on the front bed . |
| 11 | Whilst they are here , we hope that they rub away at the image of Birmingham and find its reality . |
| 12 | Laugh off the endless epithetising of everyone who crosses his path — his ‘ pretty elder daughter ’ , the ‘ renowned tailor ’ , even my own guest appearance as ‘ that respected mountaineer ’ ; roar aloud at the over-the-topness of the following : ‘ That evening at dinner the flap of our tent opened and in strode a figure of heroic majesty . |
| 13 | This is not to say that complementary therapies act only at the psychological level . |
| 14 | I groan inwardly at the prospect of a night playing Happy Families with a bunch of desk-jockeys and number-crunchers . |
| 15 | A ripe melon will smell sweet , and yield slightly at the stalk end . |
| 16 | lonnbergii , dominican gulls Larus dominicanus , blue-eyed cormorants Phalacrocorax atriceps , and a wider selection of petrels that breed both at the surface and in cavities among scree . |
| 17 | Wait dully at the traffic crossing , |
| 18 | Now , if we think about actions which might have a beneficial effect on welfare or on conservation , there are some which benefit both at the same time . |
| 19 | However , single pairs breed regularly at the Cuckmere estuary and about 12 pairs do so between Rye and the Midrips . |
| 20 | I 've had some armchairs brought in and put there at the window in case you want to talk to people more informally than around the table . ’ |
| 21 | The signals you put across at the job interview can flag your future ambitions . |
| 22 | The demands and arguments put forward at the Congress had all been heard before . |
| 23 | Similar proposals put forward at the end of World War I , to provide financial support via NHI to women after childbirth , were rejected largely because it was felt that they would offer an inducement to married women to work . |
| 24 | The enormous success of the Matisse show currently at the Museum of Modern Art , New York , has coincided if not resulted in a large number of works appearing this season . |
| 25 | When you 're inside there if you look right at the far end you 'll see one of the old windows , a beautiful old window that 's five hundred years old . |
| 26 | If you 've set your heart on some specific feature — say , white carpet — and find it 's not feasible or practical or that it 's too expensive , then look sensibly at the alternatives and find a less impossible compromise . |
| 27 | If we look only at the surface of this transaction , it wo n't make sense to us . |
| 28 | When you turn over the pages of the Supplement , pay no attention at first to the volume numbers at the top left-hand corner of the pages ; look only at the headings at the top right-hand corner , which are in alphabetical order . |
| 29 | If we look only at the output we may not learn anything , because if everyone is putting in the right amount of effort the system may still work in the same way as the arrow in the drawing does eventually find its way in the right direction . |
| 30 | The bags were of that thinner kind of plastic they use for the bags that they give away at the supermarket , the free ones ; and now one of the bags in her right hand split and she just stood there helpless to stop them as three cans fell out and rolled across the concrete . |