Example sentences of "[vb base] [adv prt] at the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Guests are often late and rarely sit down at the table on time . |
| 2 | Please sit down at the table . |
| 3 | There 's plenty here , so if you clean yourself up and sit down at the table I 'll put something out for you too . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Tackle loose stair treads in a similar way , mailing the front edge to the riser below , and piping glue in at the back . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Well , when I say less strenuous , I mean you leap in at the level that suits . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | hold on at the back , one question |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Not with all National Savings , there are some that do n't a apply the compound interest factor , you get the interest at the end on the sum that you put in at the beginning . |
| 14 | If you are having a mains garden lighting circuit installed , it makes sense to have power points suitable for power tools such as mowers and hedge trimmers put in at the time . |
| 15 | Erm the tentative benefit you put in at the end of that you said is that okay and Maggie said yes erm the answer could be construed I , I thought in that basis well yes it 's okay so what whereas if you 'd 've said is that of interest to you |
| 16 | Cut off at the neck ! |
| 17 | People pushed and shoved , stared at his madder lake suit , trousers cut off at the knee . |
| 18 | Erm now er just just Philip just correct me er on the on the detail of this thing , er individuals pitch up at the tent , collect the collect the instructions |
| 19 | ‘ Romans line up at the camp and Brits over there in the woods , ’ Nigel instructed . |
| 20 | 5.17 Yield up At the expiration of the Term : |
| 21 | The company memory of the late launch of a profitable product will convey more merit than the prompt launch of a failure , whatever the arguments put up at the time . |
| 22 | Scrubby hawthorns hold back at the brink . |
| 23 | Finally , grab yourself a makeshift whip : lash out at the face with the leather belt from your waist so that it cracks like the real thing . |
| 24 | The reason for this is that the money you receive back at the end of the year will not go as far or buy as much as it did 12 months earlier . |
| 25 | Charges for back-up support by at the request of will be BEF 20,000 a day excluding expenses . |
| 26 | I flicked the tape machine on at the point where I 'd suggested to Joe that he had swapped sides , from the analytical guitar teacher to being the very subject of such analysis himself . |
| 27 | Drop in at the Club later and exchange notes . ’ |
| 28 | ‘ Drop in at the Co-op . |
| 29 | I glance in at the ASI — still reading 150 — then throw my heavy helmeted head back to see the white skyline creeping forward along the canopy . |
| 30 | And passing , glance in at the loo . |