Example sentences of "[vb pp] [adv prt] at the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They pay thousands and thousands for the Van Goghs and Modiglianis they 'd have spat on at the time they were painted . |
| 2 | Beaumont bought Jodami cheaply in Ireland for Yorkshire businessman John Yeadon after the horse had been broken in at the Curragh as a four-year-old . |
| 3 | The one time Mayor of Arden , father of the bruised Grace ( ‘ Had it been Paddy Ashdown I would n't have minded one little bit ’ ) , had checked in at the desk and was about to carry his overnight bag up to his room when he noticed her through the glass door of an adjoining room . |
| 4 | When mum and I had checked in at the travel desk and given in our suit cases we were able to wander around and have something to eat until our flight was called out . |
| 5 | A spokesman at the hotel said he and the other members of the team had checked in at the weekend and appeared to be none the worse for their ordeal . |
| 6 | People are always being Healed down at the church . |
| 7 | As an overall thing we probably take about a hundred and fifty phone calls every day from policy holders , and I suppose out of that you I suppose you people that have n't erm have broken down at the side of the road will ring up or something . |
| 8 | They must have been filled in at the bank either by Mr Hatton himself or else by the cashier who was attending to him . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ So how shall your time be filled in at the barbecue ? ’ he queried with an unmistakable edge to his voice . |
| 10 | The chart needs to be filled in at the time the child eats as retrospective memory is unreliable . |
| 11 | ‘ It 's the way they 're gathered in at the top , Sergeant . ’ |
| 12 | Less common was the Doric peplos , a sleeveless tunic with overfold gathered in at the waist , the whole pinned or buttoned at the shoulders . |
| 13 | It should be no more and no less than the business carried on at the time of completion . |
| 14 | With only three minutes remaining in their Sharwood 's Irish Senior Cup semi-final clash against Pegasus , Sinead , who had only come on at the start of the second-half , popped up to score the only goal of the game . |
| 15 | This ladder may be either caught in at the beginning by transferring the ladder stitch to the adjacent needle OR the stitch can be run down as you work and picked up and reversed after the cable is finished to form a purl stitch on the right side . |
| 16 | There she was in a conventional two-piece suit , fine dark wool , muted geometrical pattern in greens and unexpected straw browns , caught in at the waist — still very thin — to give the effect of a bustle , the skirt long and straight to the knee . |
| 17 | Beringed hands waved in a frenzy around Miranda 's own boldly streaked , mane-like hair , and Belinda quickly paid and left , realising she had been very lucky to get squeezed in at the salon when so many women wanted to look special for Christmas . |
| 18 | He had come in at the door , he had lain down with her , he had been her lover . |
| 19 | But I mean he 's sucked in at the minute with Linda cos she wants him to put his money with her as well you see . |
| 20 | There the plaintiff had booked in at the reception desk of a hotel and only subsequently , on entering her room , did she discover behind the door a notice which claimed to exclude the hotel 's liability for guests ’ property . |
| 21 | They all stared at me wide-eyed and continued to stand and stare even after I had sat down at the table . |
| 22 | Erm I think they thought they 'd been let down at the end of it . |
| 23 | She must have looked down at the dog , and seen the blood stain and the tear on his trouser . |
| 24 | And , not quite sure how to take that , Ellie hastily looked down at the quilt the woman was folding . |
| 25 | The more intelligent networks will be able to recognise codes , keyed in at the telephone and will store much more data than is possible today . |
| 26 | The 63 was one of a handful of four-wheel-drive cars that saw brief service in 1969 before they were parked in at the end of the blind alley into which their manufacturers had ventured . |
| 27 | ‘ Can I be dropped off at the airport ? ’ she was glad to ask as the signs came up . |
| 28 | If the world 's 1984 stockpile of nuclear weapons were compressed into bombs of the size dropped on Hiroshima , it would take 4,600 years to go through them all if they were let off at the rate of one a day . |
| 29 | Look , sergeant , when I 'm driving a four-wheeler , I 'm perched up at the front . |
| 30 | He passed me a map and a brochure he had picked up at the hotel . |