Example sentences of "[vb base] [adv] at [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | Mark and Babur sit together at the head of the bed , holding hands , looking stunned . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Mangroves are trees that grow right at the edge of the sea , held and nourished through characteristic prop roots that grip the soft mud . |
| 4 | ‘ And that 's why it 's vitally important we retaliate right at the start . ’ |
| 5 | The first English cookery book recipes for tomatoes appear only at the beginning of the nineteenth century . |
| 6 | 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 ! ’ |
| 7 | Jane and children plan to fly out to Cape Town when the boats dock there at the end of the third leg in April . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Erm it will react with the aluminium , eat away at the aluminium . |
| 10 | Sit comfortably at the machine and bring the console over to sit on the front bed . |
| 11 | Whilst they are here , we hope that they rub away at the image of Birmingham and find its reality . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | I groan inwardly at the prospect of a night playing Happy Families with a bunch of desk-jockeys and number-crunchers . |
| 14 | A ripe melon will smell sweet , and yield slightly at the stalk end . |
| 15 | lonnbergii , dominican gulls Larus dominicanus , blue-eyed cormorants Phalacrocorax atriceps , and a wider selection of petrels that breed both at the surface and in cavities among scree . |
| 16 | Wait dully at the traffic crossing , |
| 17 | However , single pairs breed regularly at the Cuckmere estuary and about 12 pairs do so between Rye and the Midrips . |
| 18 | I 've had some armchairs brought in and put there at the window in case you want to talk to people more informally than around the table . ’ |
| 19 | The signals you put across at the job interview can flag your future ambitions . |
| 20 | The demands and arguments put forward at the Congress had all been heard before . |
| 21 | Similar proposals put forward at the end of World War I , to provide financial support via NHI to women after childbirth , were rejected largely because it was felt that they would offer an inducement to married women to work . |
| 22 | The enormous success of the Matisse show currently at the Museum of Modern Art , New York , has coincided if not resulted in a large number of works appearing this season . |
| 23 | If we look only at the surface of this transaction , it wo n't make sense to us . |
| 24 | If we look only at the output we may not learn anything , because if everyone is putting in the right amount of effort the system may still work in the same way as the arrow in the drawing does eventually find its way in the right direction . |
| 25 | The bags were of that thinner kind of plastic they use for the bags that they give away at the supermarket , the free ones ; and now one of the bags in her right hand split and she just stood there helpless to stop them as three cans fell out and rolled across the concrete . |
| 26 | There are many — kissing gates which are too small to allow me through , pathways which drop steeply at the edge so I ca n't move to the side to open the gate , well-meaning people who put deep grit or gravel onto the surface of the path , making my progress slow and tiring , and deep mud where horses and motorbikes have also used the path . |
| 27 | Look critically at the root causes of those failures . |
| 28 | Successive Foreign Secretaries , the ambassadorial input , the input of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office and especially the input of those who beaver away at the top of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office in dim Victorian rooms have made a tremendous contribution to the unique catalytic role which my right hon. Friend the Foreign Secretary mentioned . |
| 29 | On top of that , for the remaining three days each week , several of its 23 permanent commissions beaver away at the mountain of legislation that is being thrust before them . |
| 30 | But look carefully at the map and you see that Merida , the peninsula 's largest city and the capital of Yucatan state , lies farther north than Mexico city . |