Example sentences of "[vb base] [adv] at [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the Gaza Strip , hundreds of women held a sit in at Red Cross headquarters in Gaza City and in Khan Yunis . |
| 2 | Most conductors just sit down at that point and , beyond making sure that the orchestra kept up with the stage , leave the music to its own devices . |
| 3 | I sit down at this desk with a ledger . |
| 4 | His grandparents usually chip in at this point . |
| 5 | A few checks will soon show which tags ( if any ) connect together at each position of the switch . |
| 6 | The men sleep together at one end of the dwelling , on a raised ledge covered with more clean straw which , of course , must be brought with them . |
| 7 | One can think of these fluctuations as pairs of particles of light or gravity that appear together at some time , move apart , and then come together again and annihilate each other . |
| 8 | Say aloud at normal speed : ‘ Me th ylated sp ri ts are not o ft en e ff erve sc ent , are th ey ? ’ |
| 9 | He wondered what he would do if he could n't get into the house … well , he supposed he could go back to Joseph 's place , spend the night there and then hurry home at first light , when the servants would be up . |
| 10 | Other members of the group shift awkwardly at this picture of Arcadia in Southall , until an economist announces coldly that ‘ it is axiomatic that anything the state does it does worse than the private sector . ’ |
| 11 | Pick an open , clear piece of water and close your eyes for small intervals which you gradually make longer at each attempt . |
| 12 | The traffic would force him to slow down , and probably stop altogether at some point . |
| 13 | When two deuterons fuse together at low energy , the neutron is liberated with an energy of 2.45 MeV . |
| 14 | The children line up at one end of the room with the organizer ( grandmother ) at the other . |
| 15 | The bears line up at one end of the room . |
| 16 | Another is that they do n't shove the gear up on their dining-room walls ; you ca n't have a cop or two show up at some billionaire 's apartment in Sutton Place and demand to go through the strongroom . |
| 17 | An RSPCA official said : ‘ This all seems very pointless because wasps die out at this time of year anyway . ’ |
| 18 | Then , down the stairs , out of the door , look right at front gate , left … |
| 19 | When I began collecting material , one of the Blaxhall people offered me an open invitation : ‘ Drop in at any time if you want to know anything . |
| 20 | And I 'd also like to come back on this of closed schools in that if we look only at chronological age , which puts a limit on ‘ O ’ levels , we are shutting doors , because many students — and I see this in the sixth form — are not ready for these examinations at the prescribed age . |
| 21 | Election Call , the daily phone-in , has attracted audiences of more than a million , compared with between 300,000 and 700,000 who normally tune in at that time . |
| 22 | how I look just at this second or anything ! |
| 23 | In the Western world ( though not often in developing countries ) many public library users read recreationally at one time or another , and large numbers of people read in this way almost exclusively . |
| 24 | Anyway , I just thought I 'd write to suggest that we meet up at some point ; I do enjoy trying to get to know some of my cousins , especially when they 're not hundreds of miles away . |
| 25 | As I approach Jamie 's house , I glance up at the-first floor . |
| 26 | Look carefully at each elevation for cracks , damp , bulges or any kind of distress ( see Chapter 4 ) . |
| 27 | If you look carefully at this level you 'll see two dark bands and in between the growth . |
| 28 | If you look carefully at this table , you will see that the combination of + and — values for each phoneme is different ; if two sounds were represented by exactly the same + 's and — 's , then by definition they could not be different phonemes . |
| 29 | That 's what they say well we have this silly game that we play on the number line , going up and down the thing and when you do three start from three , count seven in the opposite direction we finish up at this number called minus four . |
| 30 | ‘ I am not sure whether I will get a hot reception from the fans when I run out at Ayresome Park . |