Example sentences of "[vb base] [adv prt] [art] [noun sg] at " in BNC.
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| 1 | Using a small hammer and 10-mm ( ⅜-in ) nails , press down the hardboard at one end of the backing sheet and hammer a nail into the frame , then do the same at the other end of the sheet , to balance the pressure on the back . |
| 2 | Send in the form at any time during the year , but it only takes effect at the beginning of the next tax year , in April . |
| 3 | Roux and Co cook up a treat at Food Show . |
| 4 | Knock out a rabbit at fifty paces , they told him in the shop . |
| 5 | In other words , we have fossils that just suddenly appear around the world at one moment in geological history and " whence , and whither flown again , who knows " ? |
| 6 | Although we are now debating a piece of works legislation , it represents a major reform of parliamentary procedure , so I put down a marker at this stage to the effect that the Minister should be more forthcoming in considering whether we should have new procedures for dealing with orders . |
| 7 | When O put down the phone at the end of this first call , he did not know how to say goodbye to Boy ; he did not know what name to use . |
| 8 | Walk along the beach at sunset . |
| 9 | Young women married to salesmen , for once , took an interest in where their husbands would be on the great day ; the older men , who ricocheted between various business interests , were lectured steadily , any time they put in an appearance at home , on the necessity of being in Tollemarche at this time ; and those males who were doomed to spend their lives in Tollemarche found themselves with intolerable lists of jobs to be done , from laying out backyard skating rinks to pinning up the hems on their female relatives ' costumes . |
| 10 | I put in an appearance at Ingard House to show that I was still busy about the audit , and had a word with Henniker . |
| 11 | Because that way it stays on if you do it the other way it 'll drop off it 's as simple as that , okay , cover the pad and as you spiral up the arm all you need to do is to cover about two thirds of what you 've just done before , just like a spiral , you find the bandages , the more you use those roller bandages of yours the worse they get to control because they lose their , you know , nice and stretchiness , so you just do , cover up the pad at the top , tie always on the top of the arm never underneath here . |
| 12 | They put up a prize at the awards ceremony they 're prepared to do all the art work for nothing or at cost price for the awards ceremony they laid on this evening for us now if three people turn up at their evening they gon na say as we putting our money in the right organisation |
| 13 | Hold up a finger at arm's-length , close one eye , and line your finger up with a picture or some other convenient object some way away . |
| 14 | Sister Dew , who had not flown before , let out a cry at seeing fields and houses beneath her . |
| 15 | The young — and those with stamina left to spend ! — round off the fun at the sound-proofed Venus disco . |
| 16 | Clothes hang on a line at one side of the room . |
| 17 | Suspiciousness becomes almost an instinct , powerful and all-pervasive : ‘ When you go out on a Sunday afternoon [ in the country ] , say , and you look over a bridge at the stream , you can not help yourself . |
| 18 | For quickness , there 's nothing to beat shaving your legs and under arms , but as you slice off the hair at skin level , you soon get prickly regrowth . |
| 19 | A nice half-day excursion would be to Monte and Terreiro da Luta , still within the city of Funchal but a bus or a taxi ride up the hillside at the back of the city . |
| 20 | He also took it in turns with other canons to act as verger and lock up the cathedral at night in the shortage of vergers caused by the war . |
| 21 | They read out a complaint at perhaps , 22 Dale Street , and you would say , ‘ Aware of it , Sir , ‘ and he would turn around and say , ‘ What is it ? ’ and if you did n't know , you were in lumber . |
| 22 | But we pick up the hotel at |
| 23 | We pick up the debate at the point where Hall suggests Liverpool boss Graeme Souness was under too much pressure to make rational decisions . |
| 24 | Now we pay we pick up the tab at the Grand Hotel for those three days in-house . |
| 25 | Smokers and ex-smokers make up a subgroup at increased risk for development of adenocarcinoma in Barrett 's oesophagus ; those patients with specialised type metaplasia and who may benefit from surgical intervention warrant regular endoscopy and biopsy whereas non-smokers are at low risk . |
| 26 | By limited liability the state is encouraging management to use shareholder funds in more risky ventures than they would otherwise undertake , and then pass on the liability at a time for forced liquidation , to third parties . |
| 27 | Instead , fill in the section at the foot of the page overleaf , detach it and return it at once , with the complete Renewal Notice . |
| 28 | To get this allowance , fill in the form at the back of the special death certificate you 'll be given when you register the death . |
| 29 | If so please fill in the form at the bottom ! |
| 30 | While Poole was urging him to remain true above all to poetry , Coleridge still had no sense of a purely poetic , or even literary , vocation , and for the moment could offer only two vague plans for the future , ‘ the first impracticable — the second not likely to succeed ’ : he could ‘ make a portly Quarto ’ by translating all the works of Schiller , then set up a school at 100 guineas a head , or he could ‘ abjure Politics & carnal literature ’ altogether and become a dissenting parson . |