Example sentences of "[vb base] [adv] at [art] " 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 | They abound now at an ever-increasing rate . |
| 20 | However , single pairs breed regularly at the Cuckmere estuary and about 12 pairs do so between Rye and the Midrips . |
| 21 | 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 . ’ |
| 22 | The signals you put across at the job interview can flag your future ambitions . |
| 23 | The demands and arguments put forward at the Congress had all been heard before . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | You look rather at a loose end over there . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | A homogeneous population will eventually grow at a steady rate r , which is given by the Euler-Lotka equation , In an asexual population , or a population of sexually reproducing haploids that vary only at a single locus , the outcome of natural selection depends simply on the long-term growth rates associated with each genotype , in the absence of density- or frequency-dependent interactions , each genotype will eventually grow exponentially at a rate that depends on its own life history , given by equation ( 1 ) . |
| 30 | If we look only at the surface of this transaction , it wo n't make sense to us . |