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

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1 Jamie and I sit down at a side table to wait .
2 Guests are often late and rarely sit down at the table on time .
3 Please sit down at the table .
4 There 's plenty here , so if you clean yourself up and sit down at the table I 'll put something out for you too .
5 And there 's another sort of things now that we do n't hear is when you sit down at the table to eat erm they 're probably the most the hostess would say now would be , Help yourself .
6 The temptation and the suspense novel , a book in which a high degree of identification both from intellectual curiosity and emotional involvement is necessary for the writer as much as the reader , is to catch hold of some intriguing initial situation , sit down at the typewriter and go racing ahead from there .
7 Mark and Babur sit together at the head of the bed , holding hands , looking stunned .
8 Er but I mean basically at the end of the day , I mean you have to think about to what extent you can increase your sales .
9 Mangroves are trees that grow right at the edge of the sea , held and nourished through characteristic prop roots that grip the soft mud .
10 ‘ And that 's why it 's vitally important we retaliate right at the start . ’
11 Tackle loose stair treads in a similar way , mailing the front edge to the riser below , and piping glue in at the back .
12 The first English cookery book recipes for tomatoes appear only at the beginning of the nineteenth century .
13 The fifteenth hole is short but dangerous ; its plateau green is ringed by bunkers at the front and sides and the trees press in at the back in a claustrophobic way — a nightmarish hole if you are playing badly .
14 Insects that fly in at the sides encounter a vertical baffle of netting that divides the trap along its axis , and tend to fly or clamber to the highest point of the baffle where the only way out is into a collecting jar .
15 He turned to wash himeslf down at the sink , and it was minutes later when he and former girlfriend , Maxine Weblin , realised Rosie was dead .
16 Well , when I say less strenuous , I mean you leap in at the level that suits .
17 He saw it break its flight over a dell between the dunes , soar vertically and then head off at an angle .
18 As soon as the flow becomes established , in fact , piles of solid lumps of lava build up at the sides of the flow , and help to confine it to its course .
19 I 'm watching Chris and Dave fool around at a disc presentation ceremony , a routine they 're well versed in by now , and talking kilt tartans to Matt Cameron from Soundgarden , who were due to play here with Guns N' Roses the following night but the gig 's been cancelled .
20 Indeed , despite the Sixties ' experiments with alternative life-styles , the despised suburban style looks like seeing the century through , for all its drawbacks of loneliness , boredom and exasperation , which made the man in the New Yorker cartoon say plaintively at the cocktail party : ‘ I want to talk about something else besides kids and illness ! ’
21 Jane and children plan to fly out to Cape Town when the boats dock there at the end of the third leg in April .
22 Based on an 8km circuit of the Can and Chelmer , teams could opt to race 40 or 80km and change over at the race centre as often as they liked .
23 By and large , those extra ’ advantages ’ , as the Labour party calls them , for the employee have to be paid for out of the profits of the organisation as a whole and they eat away at the capital that the business would ultimately have available to reinvest in jobs .
24 Erm it will react with the aluminium , eat away at the aluminium .
25 Sit comfortably at the machine and bring the console over to sit on the front bed .
26 Whilst they are here , we hope that they rub away at the image of Birmingham and find its reality .
27 hold on at the back , one question
28 Laugh off the endless epithetising of everyone who crosses his path — his ‘ pretty elder daughter ’ , the ‘ renowned tailor ’ , even my own guest appearance as ‘ that respected mountaineer ’ ; roar aloud at the over-the-topness of the following : ‘ That evening at dinner the flap of our tent opened and in strode a figure of heroic majesty .
29 Bend down at the knees to pick up a bulky object , thus avoiding back strain .
30 That proof showed that general relativity is only an incomplete theory : it can not tell us how the universe started off , because it predicts that all physical theories , including itself , break down at the beginning of the universe .
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