Example sentences of "[noun] [modal v] [verb] [adv prt] at " in BNC.
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| 1 | For example , migrating wading birds may stop off at particular estuaries en route from winter feeding grounds to summer breeding grounds ; and we will meet more examples ( eg of fish breeding in mangroves or coral reefs ) in the next chapter . |
| 2 | The cars used to set off at one-minute intervals , originally starting at 9.00 p.m. on a Saturday but that was changed in 1949 to midnight , . |
| 3 | In 1981 , the corporation argued to a House of Lords Select Committee that the tenure mix within the LDDC would work out at about 50 per cent owner-occupied , 25 per cent shared-equity tenure and 25 per cent housing association . |
| 4 | The other source of embarrassment was the very real possibility that Dennis would stroll over at any moment and catch us at it . |
| 5 | Mind you , not many Mormons would turn up at a Barbican flat at 7.30 clutching two bottles of wine . |
| 6 | He saw it all reflected in the eyes of those blood-spattered gallopers and bears and lions and tigers and ostriches , all frozen in mid-stride , helpless witnesses of the terror they could not run from , and Preston trying desperately to escape from it , as much in terror of the mutilated corpse of Mary Moxton as he was of her murderer , and running from room to room and pulling open the last door of the last room and out into the night and down the long black tunnel under the railway line getting closer and closer to the grey patch of light at the end until , on the verge of safety , the figure would leap out at him in its bloody clothes with the meat cleaver in its hands … |
| 7 | 1 am , Bath : As in Richmond and Barnes , there are few Labour voters left in Bath for the Liberal Democrats to squeeze and Chris Patten , clinging to a majority of only 1,412 , hopes Labour 's vote will go up at the Liberal Democrats ' expense . |
| 8 | I reckon Wright will come on at some stage unless England are actually winning . |
| 9 | These white athletes under such circumstances may start off at a psychological disadvantage . |
| 10 | When Loz finds the solutions to the problems that clearly weigh heavy on his shoulders — and a new hairdresser — the Kingmaker campaign could wind up at Wembley . |
| 11 | My father never visited Jubilee Street Elementary once in all the years I was there , but Granpa used to pop along at least once a term and have a word with Mr Cartwright my teacher . |
| 12 | Every year , in late October , she would arrive with her annual accounts , and she and Nigel would settle down at the dining-table with a bottle of wine and go through them . |
| 13 | Cornelius would remain on at school until real work could be found for him . |
| 14 | Even with my limited knowledge of the cost of advertising in a posh Sunday colour magazine , I realised that such an exercise would mop up at least twice Supersight 's annual spend on promotion . |
| 15 | When threatened , Wheeler would hit out at anyone in sight . |
| 16 | Allowing 10 minutes per client for collection each week , assuming the collector gets rather less than average industrial earnings and himself copes with all the paperwork involved during those 10 minutes , and assuming that the trading check firm pays the shops where the check has been used ( less its commission — perhaps 12½ per cent ) about a month after writing the check , the actual return to the lender would work out at only 7 per cent — that is to say , less than the firm 's own borrowing costs would be , even without making any allowance for either bad debts and late payments or office overheads . |
| 17 | Mr Powell will step down at Christmas , days before Carlton takes over the franchise held by Thames on New Year 's Day . |
| 18 | The once-great Computer Systems News , which had to suffer the indignity in its declining months of being called Systems and Network Integration , gives up the ghost this week but not before it reports that IBM will turn up at AutoFacts in November with a new-fangled massively parallel machine that runs both AIX/ES and MVS and is based on a new ( possibly hybrid ) chip developed at the Thomas Watson Lab . |
| 19 | Deskside systems start at £114,000 , rackmounts go from £160,000 : a top-end configuration will come in at around £1,000,000 , the company says . |
| 20 | A speech therapist will carry out formal and informal assessments of the child 's verbal expression and comprehension as well as advise on language activities parents can carry out at home ( Bishop 1984 ; Reynell 1977 ; Wheldall et al . |
| 21 | Conversely , any fool can sit down at a slot machine . |
| 22 | The debate has the style of a Westminster confrontation , and you get the strong impression that even the complete no-hopers must sneak off at home to lie in the bath to practise cries of ‘ shame ’ , ‘ hear , hear ’ and other parliamentary harrumphing . |
| 23 | Zen was still irrationally worried that Gianluigi might walk in at any moment , hunting rifle in hand . |
| 24 | And I think the stations used to close down at night , like on Sunday evening . |
| 25 | On location in Ceylon , Vivien and Peter Finch would go off at 2 o'clock in the morning to celebrate . |
| 26 | A 2 per cent discount for cash would work out at £400 a year but then there is the embarrassment of haggling in front of clients . ’ |
| 27 | The schoolboy team will set off at the end of the month . |
| 28 | No doubt the real celebrations will follow back at home . |
| 29 | Radioactive waste will pile up at nuclear power stations , defence establishments and the Sellafield reprocessing plant for another twenty years because of delays in building an underground repository , according to the Radioactive Waste Management Advisory Committee , which advises the Department of the Environment . |
| 30 | In the case of party , for example , par will start off at a higher activation level than party because of inhibition effects , but as the model begins to process , party will be sufficiently active to suppress tea … |