Example sentences of "[vb base] [adv prt] at [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | In the Gaza Strip , hundreds of women held a sit in at Red Cross headquarters in Gaza City and in Khan Yunis . |
2 | " And let it be said , " Harry went on , " now we 're talking straight , that Miss Jennifer here can forget all the Romish ideas she was fed on down at Roscarrock Hall and start eating Protestant pie , which she 'll find suits a Cornish stomach a sight better than all that hocus-pocus-nomminy-domminy rubbish they peddle down at Holy Joe 's . |
3 | Over a period of time circuit boards and chips creep out of their sockets as different components cool and heat up at different rates . |
4 | He was especially good at the end , when the aliens ( who have been monitoring the whole joke , helping Spunk out at awkward moments ) beam him back to BC . |
5 | So , they kick in at different stages . |
6 | How come the V&A 's lift signs are still made of black chipboard with white plastic letters that drop off at regular intervals ? |
7 | The NTV , with its headquarters in Lagos , had television stations in all nineteen state capitals which link up at certain times — especially for the main evening news bulletin — and have federally appointed management . |
8 | ‘ I am not sure whether I will get a hot reception from the fans when I run out at Ayresome Park . |
9 | Nowadays , when we look back at old photographs and films of the 1950s rock and roll craze , and the Teddy Boys , it is easy to wonder what all the fuss was about . |
10 | A look back at programmed learning shows how the concept began to arise . |
11 | What are the cargoes we pick up at short notice and deliver to out-of-the-way ports in Africa ? |
12 | Many of the more glamorous film and photographic opportunities crop up at short notice , so you have to be flexible . |
13 | One of the greatest of all sports car road races ever run , the Mille Miglia was first held in 1927 and , by tradition , cars set off at one-minute intervals from the centre of Brescia , raced down to Rome and returned . |
14 | All experienced knitters know that different dyes knit up at different tensions ( I certainly know this from my experiments with the ballet cardigans — there can be as much as half an inch or about five millimetres difference in measuring the forty stitches ) . |
15 | JUN 1992 TOP post boxes and notice boards set up at various locations around the site and in mess rooms to communicate TOP news . |
16 | Nor had they gone far before she was forced to stand still and stare up at tall tree-ferns , their gracefully curving fronds sheltering the path like a row of lofty umbrellas . |
17 | They buy the " right " type of car ( currently the BMW or Jaguar ! ) go to particular resorts in Spain or Greece , play golf , eat out at certain types of restaurant , and read the " Sunday Times ' on Sunday . |
18 | Make the other tentacles in the same way , varying the direction of the curve so that when assembled the tentacles branch out at different angles . |
19 | My goggles ice up at regular intervals and I wipe them with my glove , afraid that I will miss the trail a groundless fear as the dogs follow the pack scent . |
20 | Such beachcombing activities go on at numerous places around our ‘ sceptred Isle ’ . |
21 | They just energetically throw the pebbles around , and big pebbles and small pebbles respond differently to this treatment so they end up at different levels of the beach . |
22 | Broadcast schedules have to be planned in advance , programmes go out at regular times and have slots of fixed length . |
23 | Simply by shuffling their tail feathers like a pack of cards , they can hang in the air or spin round at breakneck speed . |
24 | Fold over at right angles to form a triangle . |
25 | Whether or not this control and its prerequisite knowledge remain as properties of a single ‘ command ’ module , or shift about heterarchically , both views are forms of what I shall later want to call a ‘ light up ’ view of consciousness : as in a pinball machine different areas light up at different times depending on the state of the game . |
26 | The rock is also riddled with tunnels , some of which come out at secret entrances in the forest below . |
27 | Bite back at bad behaviour |
28 | the name of the game is to race over the mountains … you can either go flat out for the fastest time … or take a treasure hunt sort of trail where you find and check in at remote control points … the route you find yourself … |
29 | This road forms the focus for an irregular network of side-streets and lanes which lead off at diverse angles and provide access to land and buildings behind the frontages . |