Example sentences of "[verb] [vb pp] [adv prt] at [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | so of course that would 've come out at a later stage , yeah , you know there 's a lot of business miles involved in flying to all these er places . |
| 2 | Their union has not only survived the rigours of a decade , but has come out at the other end stronger than ever . |
| 3 | The only technical challenge of the day is at the home of a lawyer , whose Peugeot 405 has conked out at the bottom of a steep drive . |
| 4 | An oil painting worth £12,000 and which was nicked from the Marquess of Bute in 1987 , has turned up at a car boot sale . |
| 5 | A nature garden has sprung up at a Bootle school where youngsters once had to play out in gas masks because of coaldust clouds . |
| 6 | man has hit out at a health survey which he claims is insulting and highly personal . |
| 7 | The Aussie singer , who has been accused of copying Madonna herself , has herself been accused of copying Madonna , has hit out at the American superstar . |
| 8 | Wheelchair-bound Ethlyn Whittaker , aged 56 , from Great Sankey , Warrington , has started a campaign against the means test forms , and has hit out at the charges set to be introduced in October . |
| 9 | A NURSE who had to learn to walk again after his neck was broken has hit out at the prison sentence given to his attacker . |
| 10 | Michael Fallon , who is defending Darlington for the Tories , has hit out at the surcharge of £19 on poll tax bills which have already gone out . |
| 11 | But Darlington Tory councillor Peter Jones has hit out at the Labour group , which he said was alerted of problems seven years ago . |
| 12 | The death toll has worked out at the equivalent of seven a week since the two companies responsible for investing £190million in government securities went into liquidation last June . |
| 13 | HIGH TECHNOLOGY has taken over at the Port Everglades power station , run by the Florida Light and Power Company . |
| 14 | Moreover once inflation has levelled out at an acceptable rate , aggregate demand can be expanded once again with the result that the actual unemployment rate will fall back towards NAIRU . |
| 15 | By late afternoon we 'd stopped in at a number of bars along the pier . |
| 16 | He 'd looked up at the great thing dropping out of the sky right towards his head , and had flung himself down , expecting at any second to become just a little greasy mark in a great big hole . |
| 17 | Martin Jackson sat among the people waiting by the arrivals gate and read a journal he 'd picked up at the news-stand . |
| 18 | WELL , WHEN I OFFERED SIR WILFRED MY RESIGNATION , THE OLD BUGGER GAVE ME A SECOND-HAND YACHT HE 'D PICKED UP AT AN AUCTION … |
| 19 | She woke a short while later under the impression that she 'd dropped off at a cocktail party . |
| 20 | For their tickets , and I said at the area council if they had turned up like they turned up to pay them thirty pound and eight pound , if they 'd turned up at the same time with a petition form what a difference it would |
| 21 | Lorton wondered if he 'd chickened out at the last moment . |
| 22 | Instead of liking the look of the water , wading in carefully and finding it was wonderful , she 'd tumbled in at the deep end . |
| 23 | She was cracking those damn peppermints in her back teeth to disguise the fact she 'd called in at the Oyster Bar on her way up . ’ |
| 24 | He 'd woken up at a quarter past four that morning to find Lavinia awake beside him , as often she was now in the middle of the night . |
| 25 | After all the signals of rejection she 'd sent out at the apartment — despite Marlin , despite the dangerous streets , despite the hour , despite their bitter history — she 'd come , bearing the gift of her body to his bed . |
| 26 | Far more important was the fact that this baby girl , born two weeks after the defeat of a Scottish army by the English at Solway Moss , and at a time when her remarkable father James V was lying burnt out at the age of thirty in his glorious hunting-lodge at Falkland , was to be within a week of her birth queen of the Scots . |
| 27 | Well you 've got another two or three hours on the journey , but having said tha well if you get picked up at the other end it 's not too bad . |
| 28 | Widely known for his anti-Maastricht politics , Fillon says that he wants to avoid ‘ getting bogged down at the EC level … whose cumbersome procedures put a damper on the research community ’ . |
| 29 | Our Jan 's getting fought over at the moment . |
| 30 | They pay thousands and thousands for the Van Goghs and Modiglianis they 'd have spat on at the time they were painted . |