Example sentences of "[coord] [adv] [verb] at [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A man she had never seen before or since came at night . |
| 2 | Those denied an education remained in hospitals without any form of mental stimulation or simply stayed at home ; a few attended ‘ junior ’ training centres . |
| 3 | Treat yourself to something special , or simply browse at leisure . |
| 4 | The head of the deceased then appears on a television screen which is tastefully draped in white silk and discreetly illuminated at night . |
| 5 | He is encouraged to go on with the process of living ( line 60 ) and perhaps hints at compensation for suffering in an after-life . |
| 6 | He found it and obviously felt at ease enough to go ahead with the appointment , ’ said Mr King . |
| 7 | Such problems are usually confined to ponds in which there is little or no water movement , and generally occur at night . |
| 8 | ‘ I did n't want to become a prisoner of my own fame or become pushed into a corner by success and just sit at home . ’ |
| 9 | Something in the back of her mind was saying : shock , , you 're in shock , Bernice snap out of it , woman , but she tuned it out and just stared at Ace until the world came back into focus around her and she heard Bishop saying calmly : |
| 10 | From here we carried on along a river and soon arrived at Sokol which has just one house — a traditional forester 's cabin with deer antlers above the front door . |
| 11 | Some widows in this position transform their lost husband in their minds into the man they wish he had been , and finally live at peace with a dream instead of in conflict with reality . |
| 12 | Tall , slim , elegant , and totally dominating at centre-half ; Jimmy joined the Palace on 2 October 1928 and for his debut was plunged into the testing FA Cup-tie against the Southern League ( Eastern Section ) Champions , Kettering Town whose centre-forward had already gained quite a reputation — one Peter Simpson , no less ! |
| 13 | If you are over 18 and still living at home with your family , you will receive your own Poll Tax bill . |
| 14 | Double Silk , owned and still ridden at home by retired , 66-year-old farmer Reg Wilkins , was plunged on from 7–2 to 5–2 favourite . |
| 15 | Despite the contempt expressed in the past for the American principle of ‘ publish or perish ’ , British universities are more and more looking at volume of publication — otherwise , ‘ performance indicators ’ — as a sign of virtue . |
| 16 | Her voice was shaking as she told me that on returning from the cinema a couple of weeks earlier she had been grabbed from behind , dragged into an alley and viciously raped at knifepoint . |
| 17 | On the other hand heads have every right to expect staff to be well groomed and reasonably dressed at work . |
| 18 | She married Allan Macdonald in 1750 and now lies at rest in the churchyard at Kilmuir , near Duntulm Castle ; beneath a white granite , Iona cross , and her winding sheet , the same sheet that softened Charles Edward Stewart 's rest during his first night on Skye . |
| 19 | Because of the low incidence of the disorder such services can never be comprehensively and efficiently provided at district level . |
| 20 | And then Frusamide for your water tablet and that 's to start on Thursday and then review at end of pack . |
| 21 | name ; is a very respectable cook , so we make occasional trips to the supermarket and to the open market , and then eat at home in the evening , although we can also go out to a restaurant for a meal if we want , as someone has now kindly lent us a car . |
| 22 | Nationally imposed conditions of employment and salary scales have to be managed at LEA level and then implemented at school level . |
| 23 | In one incident a student was attacked by two men and then forced at gunpoint to hand over his £250 mountain bike . |
| 24 | The Sergeant glowered at Rincewind , and then peered at Twoflower with interest . |
| 25 | Start by inserting the blooms at the back then work your way along the sides and then finish at front |
| 26 | One or two layers would be in space — first shooting at missiles as they left the atmosphere and then shooting at re-entry vehicles as they travel through space . |
| 27 | The chapter entitled " Language and gender " is bound to seem tokenistic , despite any protestations , for it is rather unsatisfactory to produce a chapter on gender and ideology and then discuss at length two canonical male texts . |
| 28 | Because the steam is generated in a separate tank and then passed at pressure through a pipe onto the iron 's soleplate , drips , leaks , calcium and other nasties are prevented from staining your clothes and the life of the iron is prolonged . |
| 29 | Pigeons clock-shifted 6 hours forward should behave as if they had been taken west : a pigeon , for example , clock-shifted 6 hours in a loft at Rome and then released at midday would think that the time at home was 6.00 p.m. , deduce that it had been moved to New York , and therefore home by flying east ( if we ignore the fact that it would recognize local landmarks ) . |
| 30 | The subject of Pippa better not discussed ( and then discussed at length ) . |