Example sentences of "[vb pp] [to-vb] [adv] at the " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was intended to come down at the wrong moment , disappear , do the same again , then go shooting through the roof when the mechanics of the wire go wrong . |
| 2 | In theatres all over the world performers are expected to turn up at the ‘ half ’ to start making up . |
| 3 | Although their dress was not equipped to deal with soaking weather and although they may have been expected to turn back at the sight of such greyness , they continued and even displayed some sense of enjoyment at the discomfort each was experiencing . |
| 4 | But now , attending on the King 's mother , she might be expected to stay tonight at the Palace . |
| 5 | The repeating shape of the accompaniment in quavers is designed to recur only at the first beat of the seventh bar . |
| 6 | Paul asked the Corinthians , and the unanswerable logic of his question was designed to cut decisively at the root of ingratitude . |
| 7 | Indeed in cases where such companies had a vital stake , as with the British South Africa Union Minière in Zaire they were seen to behave badly at the very point at which their host countries became independent . |
| 8 | When a colleague had some treatment , a tape was played and he was made to look up at the highest point of the ceiling . |
| 9 | The opportunity has not been missed to point unfavourably at the controversial plans for the Bode Museum in Berlin which , it seems , will not now be restored to its original appearance as when built for Kaiser Friedrich in 1897–1904 . |
| 10 | The 18th baron , who inherited the title three years ago , has sensibly decided to stay on at the Dower House , where he has been for many years . |
| 11 | The 18th baron , who inherited the title three years ago , has sensibly decided to stay on at the Dower House , where he has been for many years . |
| 12 | The new breed of shareholders has yet to show its skills of actually trading shares for long term appreciation and has tended to sell out at the most lucrative time . |
| 13 | And he 's promised to look again at the case for allowing British Rail to bid for franchises . |
| 14 | So far she had n't dared to look directly at the Bentley . |
| 15 | The Home Office has agreed to look again at the case of two men serving life for the murder of a drug dealer . |
| 16 | Listen , have you got to stay on at the track , or is it possible for you to leave and come back to the hotel ? ’ |
| 17 | Someone had had to drop out at the last minute and there was an unexpected vacancy to be filled . |
| 18 | ‘ The lesson of milk quotas is that you 've got to get in at the start . |
| 19 | A contributory factor to the muddled thinking on excise duty on whisky has been the discrimination in favour of imported wine , where increased consumption has been shown to cut away at the base of whisky consumption . |
| 20 | BA is keeping its distance from attempts by Stephen Wolf and Jay Pritzker to revive the bidding consortium , but there are still hopes in the US that it could be persuaded to step in at the last minute to add weight to a new bid . |
| 21 | Curiosity will be aroused by an exhibition which unites artists who would never have agreed to show together at the time when this sculpture was being made . |
| 22 | Erm , they give a complex number of cues , erm , when they are about to finish their conversation , erm , I how did they manage to it 's shown , it shown through the gaze of the speaker erm , erm , the speaker coming to the end of long actions has been shown to gaze heavily at the listener . |
| 23 | Members of his court such as Diane de Beauveau Craon , her stepmother Laure and certain editors are invited to sit in at the studio for a preview . |
| 24 | A similar directive covering public works contracts over £3.5 million is scheduled to come in at the beginning of 1990 . |
| 25 | It is vitally important that the engineer should be given as much information as possible and should not be merely invited to turn up at the site and work things out alone . |
| 26 | Once in a while at least , the philosopher must be allowed to approach the psychologist as a counsellor and to say : if you leave the Sorbonne by the exit in the Rue Saint-Jacques , you can either turn up the hill or go down towards the river : if you go up , you will get to the Panthéon which is the resting place of a few great men , but if you go downhill then you 're bound to end up at the Préfecture de Police . |
| 27 | The log transformation was found to fit nicely at the zero position on the ladder of powers . |
| 28 | He had flown in via Honolulu , but reportedly had not deigned to glance over at the still-visible wreckage of Pearl Harbor , just off the runway . |
| 29 | Meanwhile back in Wales , Philip Burton had taken the plunge , moved to Cardiff and gone to work full-time at the BBC as a producer . |
| 30 | Erm you were asked to look carefully at the music of the first two bars then write the music of bar three . |