Example sentences of "[verb] [adv prt] at [noun prp] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Before his last throw of the dice he had been hanging on at Etten in hopes of a visit from Mauve , who had half promised to come and initiate him into ‘ the mysteries of the palette ’ . |
| 2 | In fact we checked in at Heathrow at 2pm but our plane did n't take off until nine the next morning . |
| 3 | Sir Peter , stands down at BP in spring next year . |
| 4 | The man had picked up the ball , and peered down at Nick through dark-rimmed , bleary eyes . |
| 5 | No um Michael Fraser Associates have now started a lobbying operation which is run for them by the former Chief Executive of the Tory Party in Scotland whose name I 've forgotten but he lives down at Tiningham in East Lothian ah , now if I could get him in if Fred does n't object and again if Fred did n't object and the other guy did n't object it might be worth getting a member of Parliament in |
| 6 | Ali looks over at Lonnie with mischievous eyes . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Well he , he , they were on their way to Norwich but they stopped off at Ipswich for a lunch , you see , and er I had , I looked after them , so , so that it should n't interrupt the other girls behind the counter or , or the waiter who was looking after his regular customers in the dining room , you see , er and so I used to erm and once I had I remember there was six black doctors came in and er and I was glad because it was nice to move about and instead of sticking in the office typing and then going out all alone , you see , while the Manager was on the district , you see , I liked it and er anyway that was a long time ago . |
| 9 | He stopped off at Dingwall for a sketch or two and rejoined the train in Inverness . |
| 10 | Louis moved down the Rhine by ship from Worms , Charles with his horsemen travelled overland across the Hunsrück ( " a difficult route " on which the benefits of hard training showed ) , to meet up at Koblenz on 18 March . |
| 11 | This courtesy , tenderly performed , seemed right out of place to me , but it went down okay with Mrs Davis , who peered up at Fielding for quite a time before she said , |
| 12 | Bule reservoir to come out at Lamberhurst in the village so I sort of circled it |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Meanwhile , the government published a report from its radioactive waste management advisory committee saying that BNFL had failed to supply it with sufficient information on its proposals to deal with waste arising from work carried out at THORP for foreign customers . |
| 15 | The sweet potatoes are all of a specific variety , namely TIB 1 , which is the product of breeding work carried out at IITA in Nigeria in the 1970s . |
| 16 | A search carried out at Frome in 1786 produced several hundredweight of embezzled wool.9 More interesting was the prolonged and bitter dispute which broke out in Essex in 1757 . |
| 17 | Experiments are being carried out at Cambridge on a wheat-rye hybrid known as Triticale , which , it is hoped will have the growing and ripening qualities of rye and the baking qualities of wheat . |
| 18 | In the late 1950s and early 1960s a survey of sources of radio waves from outer space was carried out at Cambridge by a group of astronomers led by Martin Ryle ( who had also worked with Bondi , Gold , and Hoyle on radar during the war ) . |
| 19 | The aircraft was designated the W-3 and initial flight tests were carried out at Abbotsinch near Glasgow on July 9 , 1936 . |
| 20 | The scheme develops ideas tried out at Urbanbuild in Swansea , also sponsored by the APA , completed two years ago . |
| 21 | As orbiting was not permitted the force was withdrawn , Sugar landing back at Ford in Sussex . |
| 22 | ‘ You need a highchair , ’ declared a long-aproned and straw-boatered young man , grinning down at Thomas in his buggy . |
| 23 | Outside , Goldman was looking down at Schmidt as if he were standing on a cliff 's edge and peering at the drop . |
| 24 | Philippa was laughing in the perimeter of shadow that surrounded the light and Lee felt oddly stable looking down at Larry as if she were surveying an actor from the height and comfort of the gallery . |
| 25 | Then there is the matter of the French Cheddar ( not to be confused with an unidentified English cheese known for generations to the French public as Chester ) now being made down at Castres in the Tarn department of the Languedoc . |
| 26 | just as he wanted them , there was real oldy-worldy and the kitchen furniture was made down at Buckfastely in Devon and that was all re-claim pine |
| 27 | The Arundel trainer had felt an April fool when his first two runners of the campaign — including an odds-on shot — were turned over at Brighton on Thursday . |
| 28 | He only curled up , laying his head down on his forepaws , looking up at Fox with mocking amusement clear in one tilted eye . |
| 29 | He ducked down , looking up at Vologsky from a crouch . |
| 30 | He was standing by his desk , his arms circling the waist of an extraordinarily beautiful dark-haired girl , who was looking back at Lisa in surprise across his shoulder . |