Example sentences of "[vb pp] [adv] at [adj] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One autumn night , when Liz was preparing for Oxford and Cambridge entrance , Shirley had come home at ten from the Harpers ' , flushed from sexual excitement and from running through the cold streets under the yellowing smoke-scented suburban trees , her body on fire , and had found Liz still sitting where she had left her , two hours earlier , at the kitchen table , staring at the pale-green wall , as though in a catatonic trance . |
| 2 | The pilot was carried out at two of our locations , Greenock in Scotland , where we have a manufacturing and development site , and Bristol . |
| 3 | Despite the fact that regular maintenance was a statutory requirement and despite some successful legal actions to enforce the statutory provisions , regular dredging and attention to leaks were perfunctory or never carried out at all by canal companies owned by the railways . |
| 4 | We 've looked particularly at some of the kinds of er , issues , that black and ethnic minority groups experience in that area . |
| 5 | Having looked briefly at some of the background to anticipated grief and why it occurs we need to consider how it gets expressed when someone is expected to die . |
| 6 | Now the response , what they have done is they 've had a look , we have looked briefly at some of the aspects , overall aspects and you 'll find that in a number of these things , Oxford City Council is already quite heavily involved . |
| 7 | He worked out where The Bar was on his maps , and then checked this perspective against the actual view — from where he saw the city it looked like The Bar was right in the middle of it , not hidden away at all like it was on the map . |
| 8 | Hardly there 's hardly anything There 's hardly anything written down at all about this . |
| 9 | The ‘ design for living ’ shown by a species is the outcome of this selective process and is related not at all to any eventuality that may arise but to the set of conditions , the ‘ niche ’ , to which the evolutionary process has confined the species . |
| 10 | The last revellers had finally been seen off at nine in the morning ; they and Margot had done some cleaning up before going to bed , though Ken had anyway had a couple of hours ' sleep between three and five , when he 'd fallen into a deep slumber on the wicker couch in the conservatory . |
| 11 | That 's where the real problem lies , if you could have had the P A , if you could have gone into the cupboard and got it , even though we 'd turned up at ten past six , |
| 12 | Then on leaving the table , horse-racing fan Parrott discovered that Amron , his nap of the day , had sprinted home at 10–1 at Doncaster . |
| 13 | Nutty knew that without Biddy they would have got nowhere at all with their idiosyncratic beasts . |
| 14 | The lecture programme , together with its associated tutorial and laboratory work is based entirely at one of the three participating universities , but for the project work students will join the institution at which the appropriate special facilities or expertise exist . |
| 15 | His eyes were abnormally large , and suddenly Alexei realised that both the muscles around the eyes and the jet black pupils which were centred within the golden irises were affected not at all by the light but responded rather to some inner stimulus . |
| 16 | One recent week was spent down at one of the two training colleges the union owns Cudham Hall at Seven Oaks in Kent . |
| 17 | " Males " is a term found hardly at all in the language of employers or workers , while " boys " is used only of apprentices . |
| 18 | But then again , have you ever woken up at two in the morning covered in sweat , with the absolute conviction that your time on the planet is about to run out ? |
| 19 | There is little comfort in being woken up at three in the morning by a fire engine proceeding to a fire . |
| 20 | The group was hardly set back at all by the major extinction at the end of the Cretaceous , and has never been more varied than it is today . |
| 21 | Later he realised he had known even at six on that June morning that the time left would be short before the surge of pain crashed through his head . |
| 22 | Next day , 13th. , four of the squadron 's Hurricanes were led off at 1330 by Flt.Lt . |
| 23 | Mr Smith said : ‘ It is very suspicious that it is only one party 's leaflets that have not gone out at all in large quantities . ’ |
| 24 | Me , I I mean , I 've done I 've done no work today because I went out to collect some stuff of a friend this morning and by the time I came in it was quarter past ten and I 'd gone out at ten to nine so I 'd missed the schools |
| 25 | Twelfth seed Ros Nideffer went out 4–6 6–2 10–8 to US qualifier Katrina Adams in a second round match resumed after being halted overnight at 5–5 in the final set . |
| 26 | Ten shillings from Saturday morning , from when they when the men left off at half past four on a Saturday till six o'clock Monday morning , we got ten shillings and if and if we were on watch on th on the night time , cos we used to do one watch one week and one night one week and two nights next , cos there used to be the mate and erm three more sailors , used to take turns , well there was only four nights so the man who done the Monday night , they done the Friday night . |
| 27 | ‘ What a set-up for a young lass when her father must n't be told she goes to a dance , ’ said Lizzie , which brought forth from Peggy the sharp and quizzical retort , ‘ Remember , Mam , when I was fifteen I was n't allowed out at all after six o'clock unless you were with me . ’ |
| 28 | The following table , based on an analysis of ten movements taken quite at random from the works of Mozart , Beethoven , Mendelssohn , Berlioz , Wagner , and Tchaikovsky , may be of interest in this connexion : |
| 29 | The guttering blue-yellow flame within the shattered shell of the car was snuffed out at last by the rain and the storm-wind . |
| 30 | I have sampled a range of cordless tools , chosen mostly at random from the manufacturers ' catalogues , broadly representing the market spectrum . |