Example sentences of "[vb pp] [adv prt] at [adj] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The pilot was carried out at two of our locations , Greenock in Scotland , where we have a manufacturing and development site , and Bristol . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Hardly there 's hardly anything There 's hardly anything written down at all about this . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 , |
| 6 | One recent week was spent down at one of the two training colleges the union owns Cudham Hall at Seven Oaks in Kent . |
| 7 | 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 ? |
| 8 | There is little comfort in being woken up at three in the morning by a fire engine proceeding to a fire . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Next day , 13th. , four of the squadron 's Hurricanes were led off at 1330 by Flt.Lt . |
| 11 | 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 . ’ |
| 12 | 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 |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 15 | The guttering blue-yellow flame within the shattered shell of the car was snuffed out at last by the rain and the storm-wind . |
| 16 | No , he 'll be out went out at ten to seven but over a sort of I 've been up since seven , I 've not really sat down all day . |