Example sentences of "[conj] [verb] [adv prt] at [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thing about this programme it is so it is so crucial to everything that goes on at Radio York while it is happening , they eat in the other room that 's how much er interest there is they eat in the other room . |
| 2 | I do n't think so , not again , but I am annoyed with him Jane , because I lost a fiver today plus tax on his first mount ; that was Lupesku , that came in at second at five to one , he then rode Balasinya and Patricia , I think they 're still running Jane . |
| 3 | Or once the partition walls are down , you can create your own flexible dividers , with bookcases , shelving units , screens or screen-like structures like trellis , or even Murphy beds that let down at night from what looks like a panelled screen . |
| 4 | She said well , tell Grant , she said he can have a reprieve , she said it 's May the eighth and , and she says , she probably heard me say it was Friday and that 's when I thought it was this Friday , so I had to phone erm the receptionist at daddy 's works , so she was going to pass on the message to daddy just to tell him just to work late as usual , Grant , rather than come in at teatime and then go back to work again . |
| 5 | After a hard days slog in the office making real-life management decisions , there is nothing your average manager likes doing more than sitting down at home making pretend management decisions governing the career development of an amoeba . |
| 6 | Even if she could n't get a game , there 'd be something going on at the club , and it would be better than moping around at home . |
| 7 | Harry laughed about this , saying that childbirth was like shelling peas to a woman , and that he 's be better off at sea after the mackerel than moping about at home and getting in the way of the womenfolk . |
| 8 | ‘ Slices of pizza in boxes , hot and ready to eat , would go down really well here with all the people that come in at lunch times from the colleges and offices around . ’ |
| 9 | All them little starry lights that comes out at night , well , they 're not much help , are they ? |
| 10 | He just sat in his chair and gazed up at Granny 's picture in its faded gilt frame . |
| 11 | And pick up at quarter past seven at night . |
| 12 | After his second day as substitute games and sports master , Bodie drove wearily to CI5 , and checked in at Forensic , then at Traffic . |
| 13 | He did not take it too seriously , but nonetheless he wheeled his pony and made off at speed , back towards the fringes of Clocaenog , where he had passed the last of the prince 's watch . |
| 14 | One favourite came after a horrendous week of moon-lighting ( working during the day on a comedy , Exclusive Yarns , in Southampton and whizzing back at night for the musical , Wonderful Town ) . |
| 15 | Once you 're at the summit descend by the more popular Miners ' Path which will take you down across the causeway over Llyn Llydaw and finishes up at Pen-y-pass at the top of the Llanberis Pass . |
| 16 | Very little guidance is given to students , who enrol ( with some exceptions ) in the subject of their choice and shift around at will , taking around six years to complete their first degree . |
| 17 | Clothes are modelled and tried on at leisure . |
| 18 | The miners tramped up the valleys in the morning , worked all day and came down at night . |
| 19 | Around Christmas people go into shops and break in at night for what they want . |
| 20 | I voiced my resentment openly , but my fatigue was confided only to my diary and to those of my friends who already knew that I was in the habit of getting up and wandering around at night . |
| 21 | There were racetrack express buses , I found , going from the city to the Downs , so I went on one at about six o'clock and strolled around at ground level looking for some way of conveying to Bill Baudelaire the water samples which were now individually wrapped inside the nondescript plastic carrier . |
| 22 | They live their first few months in the river , then migrate downstream to the sea ; they spend two or three years in feeding and growing out at sea , during which they cover thousands of miles ; and when mature , they migrate back to exactly the same river , and same tributary , as they were born in . |
| 23 | Occasionally there was a total embargo on any press interviews and Laura never allowed a stock of photographs of her to be held and handed out at will . |
| 24 | Anglers study the river , locating where the big fish lie , and creep up at dusk when fish are least likely to suspect foul play . |
| 25 | Teachers who are unused to the behaviour of pupils with severely defective sight can be surprised by the way in which such children can move about within a setting in which they feel secure , negotiating stairs and corridors and moving along at speed with the stream of pupils going from room to room ; but unfamiliar settings and unexpected obstacles can cause difficulties or even be hazardous , and such hazards should be minimised . |
| 26 | It 's alleged that Leyshon and Stokle were lured here and tied up at knife point , before being transported to the hill . |
| 27 | Clerk of the course Rodger Farrant described the turnout for the race as a ‘ disaster ’ and hit out at racehorse owners . |
| 28 | The man replied no , but that as he had been born and brought up at Moor of Rannoch , he had every right to call himself Scot . |
| 29 | But she laid down the rebec on her knees , and looked up at Bénezet with a fiercely thoughtful face . |
| 30 | He stood in the garden , at the edge of the pool , and looked up at Dad 's window . |