Example sentences of "[vb pp] [adv prt] [adv] at the " in BNC.
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1 | The Hochhauser Season had come along just at the right time , a time when she needed a little excitement , a little glamour , a little of the old camaraderie that she had known with her friends in Vienna . |
2 | I was let down lightly at the beginning , though . |
3 | But his mind had clouded over again at the wrong moment and now it was too late . |
4 | Like one of those European taxis that you get picked up in at the airport in Paris . ’ |
5 | ‘ Years ago we threw the old didacticism ( dowdy morality ) out of the window ; it has come back in at the door wearing modern dress ( smart values ) and we do not even recognize it ’ ( p. 159 ) . |
6 | It dates back to at least the fifth century BC and is still carried out today at the roadside in parts of Asia . |
7 | and when I looked they did n't have it threaded up right at the top at all I had to re-thread the machine . |
8 | Erm , well , at the moment I 'm involved in a a big project , new benefits claims , erm , and so if the new claims system could echo which priorities in that department , erm , and it looks like it will be long drawn out eventually at the end of next year , nationwide and effectively it 's a English processing system whereby terms coming in and they 're scanned and you can see images on a screen , so there 's gon na be no calls , what my , what my role in this is , gon na be to get the branches to accept the system . |
9 | She might have laughed out loud at the absurdity of her error had it not disturbed her so . |
10 | He was philosophical , not to say laid back about the inconvenience of being called out unnecessarily at the end of what had already been a long day . |
11 | The circular stapling gun was then introduced through an anterior gastrostomy and opened in the lower oesophagus when a nylon or silk ligature was tied round just at the gastrooesophageal junction . |
12 | Would you deal with an additional matter please your worships er , not on your list he 's only been brought in almost at the start of the court of this morning . |
13 | It meant he 'd been laid off again at the stocking factory . |
14 | Peterson commented to Brigham Young University President Holland , generously , on the ‘ remarkable coincidence that such similar research had sprung up independently at the two universities . ’ |
15 | Madame always had a little stage set up there at the end , and I remember thinking at the time , well , seven nights in a week and seven different acts , it 's one way of dealing with the situation . |
16 | She was cut off tragically at the height of her powers , but she had already made her mark : a crucial contribution to one of the most important discoveries of the twentieth century , and work on two major biological problems and the techniques for solving them , that helped lay the foundations of structural molecular biology . |
17 | The patients are followed up partly at the outpatient department , partly at local hospitals . |
18 | We 've tightened up considerably at the back , and that 's very pleasing from my point of view . ’ |
19 | Monks ' curry-coloured eyes had filmed over lasciviously at the vision of London , of freedom and promotion and advance . |
20 | She could hear the clatter of iron shutters being cranked up over at the amusement arcades . |
21 | Some of these materials were tried out effectively at the most recent course described above . |
22 | With me coming from the North of England , everybody is pretty reserved up there at the best of times , so coming down to London and meeting Angie with an American accent and flitting around the room and speaking in a loud voice all the time , it was amazing . |