Example sentences of "[adv] [vb base] at the [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 But without proper government action , they only scratch at the problem .
2 From the point of view of the hotel receptionist it is important to remember a vital practical point : do not refuse to take guest 's property into safe custody , and make sure that either you or one of your staff constantly remain at the reception desk in order to fulfil this duty .
3 Yeah , well I manually combine at the moment the range names .
4 She was working on the two o'clock to ten o'clock shift at the factory and on the Tuesday morning was up early to do some ironing , then she began to prepare the midday meal for herself and her mother and father , and Aunt Carrie who was visiting them .
5 The important points to remember are that pipe runs from the hot water cylinder should be kept as short and as direct as possible to avoid heat loss — and a long wait at the tap before hot water arrives .
6 The sixteen-mile detour around Loch Leven was much preferred to a long wait at the ferry , and the journey was made palatable by the excellence of the scenery and the opportunity of shopping or refreshment .
7 It was always a long wait at the bus stop , followed by a long ride .
8 As the cell proceeds down a pathway genes are switched on and off reflecting an internal programme , for external signals only act at the branch points , directing the cell along one or other of the paths open to it .
9 So beware at the doctor 's .
10 but then when we went into it they said erm obviously look at the development plans and it would go ahead eventually for something there , they did n't state what .
11 With his accountant 's help he eventually moved his accounts to the Midland , which gave him the overdraft on reasonable terms , but he is critical of the way banks look at small businesses , believing that many only look at the business sector rather than at the person running a particular business .
12 I do n't remember the paper I only look at the front and the back on a Friday , well pick it up and have a look
13 She said they only look at the car 's registration number .
14 So look at the pattern , count the maximum number of marked squares occurring in a vertical line and then double that to calculate the effect of the double-length light .
15 PERHAPS feeling somewhat piscine at the time the organisers of North-East Norwegian Week insisted on announcing that something fishy would mark its start at the MetroCentre .
16 Herring gull ( a , b ) and black-headed gull ( c ) chicks naturally peck at the tip of their parents ' bills to beg for food .
17 There are some people who obviously come at the weekend more to see whatever it is we 're showing .
18 The Government must find an answer to that key point , which was made by the hon. and learned Member for Burton , who has long experience at the Bar , and by my right hon. Friend the Member for Sparkbrook .
19 Markets only work at the cost of perennial insecurity for producers .
20 So work at the digging .
21 The constraint that word beginnings only occur at the point where a previous word ends , prevents leave being found in believe and a ring being found in measuring .
22 An ultimate agit pop group , sat painfully pat at the confluence of three socialist realist orthodoxies : that there is a necessary and simple fit between pop culture and radical politics : that youth culture is a working-class phenomenon ; that black music alone is the only unembarrassing and legitimate basis for protest .
23 N.T.A. was considered the alternative to phosphates in washing powders at the start of the 80's , but it is now banned in the USA because it combines with heavy metals , as does E.D.T.A. In this way carcinogenic substances such as lead , mercury etc. , which normally remain at the bottom of lakes and rivers , are reintroduced to the water supply .
24 In other words , the reader should ignore the PR specialist 's material at the front of the annual report and begin with the statutory accounts which normally appear at the end .
25 Head down , they race to departments , charge at the shelves and scarcely look at the price before stampeding to the cash tills .
26 ‘ They were desperately unhip at the start , and they probably still are .
27 Just look at the evidence .
28 Just look at the state of this room .
29 Just look at the state of the floor and those windows .
30 Okay if it 's any help just look at the opening
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