Example sentences of "[vb -s] [adv prt] at [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | ‘ And , you know , I have n't the faintest idea of what actually goes on at a baby farm . |
2 | That 's where all the official entertaining goes on at the regatta — just to give you an idea of the scale of it , they 'll be putting away 50,000 pints of Pimm 's , 6,000 bottles of champagne and 3,000 pounds of strawbnerries . |
3 | I 've never been able to find out what goes on at the ceremony , but , from what I 've heard , there is more to it than rolling up your trouser-leg . |
4 | I can see why nuns wear white when they take the veil , but when you think of the way everyone goes on at the prospect of the wedding night innocence is the last thing on anyone 's mind . ’ |
5 | " Andrew is a very complex character as a man , but when he 's composing , he 's just like anybody else — he sits down at the piano looking for the tune , " explains Black . |
6 | if you like the germ of the idea of the poem is alive in his mind because he sits down at the page thinking I 'm going to write a poem . |
7 | But she has this threatening jacket , a dark linen one which she can pop on over the Lycra , and it has big shoulders and big assertive buttons and nips in at the waist , and this means , ‘ Fun I may be , but business is business and I will rip your arms and legs off in the boardroom if you let me . ’ |
8 | Although it might be a temptation to say hot air , because you do put hot air in , but it says goes in at the top of the furnace . |
9 | The laibon simply looks down at the floor of the boma . |
10 | These wide , panoramic views are usually extremely compatible , as Natassa combines views of two of the Tyne Bridges in one double shot ; looks down at the field pattern provided by the flagstones at the corner of the street ; looks back on-shore , from the water 's edge ; or concentres on old rotting timbers out to sea . |
11 | He looks down at the fag packet and taps it round another couple of revolutions on the table . |
12 | He looks down at the table , smiling , and draws a face by running his finger through a ring of beer . |
13 | She looks down at the figure slumped in the chair , sees the skull under the frail skin which hangs loosely from the bone , at once tight and yet with too much of it , the bony fingers picking at the fringes of the rug . |
14 | Aye and what happens is , it usually starts in at the corner of your finger |
15 | He glances down at the table , as if the answer might be written on a beer mat . |
16 | Erm , and that 's about it really , erm , she lives in at the minute , and this was a gentleman called in the sky . |
17 | The branch road from Dent joins in at a bridge and the hamlet of Cowgill , once a parish in its own right , is immediately beyond : here is a church built in 1873 , a converted school , the pleasant residence and gardens of Cowgill Grange and an isolated terrace of cottages . |
18 | A person who holds over at the end of a lease is not a trespasser until demand is made , as only the person in possession can be trespassed against ( Hey v Moorhouse ( 1839 ) 6 Bing NC 52 ) . |
19 | It will be intriguing to see how Brecht 's play stands up at a time when Communism is loosening its ideological hold . |
20 | But then I 've got ta meet Emma and she stands up at the top . |
21 | The new fifth television channel , wherever it is situated , will open up further opportunities for programme-makers when it starts up at the end of 1993 . |
22 | Mark looks up at the sky . |
23 | John looks up at the cop 's face . |
24 | Thus it is Pippin who looks up at the sun and the banners and offers comfort to Beregond , and Merry who never loses heart when even Théoden appears prey to ‘ horror and doubt ’ . |
25 | They are sitting by the eye of the stream where it looks up at the sun before it weeps down the mountainside . |
26 | He looks up at the class . |
27 | He only glances up at the television occasionally , as he is intent on finishing these as quickly as possible in order to give himself ti me to write a letter home to his wife . |
28 | Across the waters , the magnificent Peter and Paul Fortress looks back at the shoreline . |
29 | In the first of a three part series , Erika Barnes looks back at the life of the plane affectionately known as Fat Albert . |
30 | Our political correspondent , Fiona Ross looks back at the career of Jo Grimond . |