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

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1 I sit down at this desk with a ledger .
2 His grandparents usually chip in at this point .
3 An RSPCA official said : ‘ This all seems very pointless because wasps die out at this time of year anyway . ’
4 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 .
5 ‘ If you think I 'm going to let you turn out at this time of night you 've got another think coming .
6 Skills such as note-taking come in at this stage , and one way of approaching this is to use the questions originally formulated as a structure for notes taken , so that children are noting down things they need to know , rather than every conceivably useful point .
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