Example sentences of "[vb mod] [vb infin] [adv prt] at [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You must stay on at Casa Sciorto , Caroline … ’ |
| 2 | The debate has the style of a Westminster confrontation , and you get the strong impression that even the complete no-hopers must sneak off at home to lie in the bath to practise cries of ‘ shame ’ , ‘ hear , hear ’ and other parliamentary harrumphing . |
| 3 | It was a perpetual anxiety with me that I should turn up at school wearing a dress that had been sold to that same shop by one of my fellow-pupils . |
| 4 | Colds settle in the nose which may stuff up at night with much sneezing and blows out mucus and often blood ; nosebleeds with every cold . |
| 5 | ‘ I 'll call back at noon , ’ he said to the buttons on her breast pockets , and she led me to a changing room full of paper nighties before turning to greet the next chicken on the conveyor belt and rewinding the tape to : ‘ Hi there , welcome to Surgicentre . |
| 6 | Arms races sometimes culminate in extinction , and then a new arms race may begin back at square one . |
| 7 | You could fall out at night . ’ |
| 8 | Some years later , to give one final example of the kind of trouble that could break out at football games , the police found it necessary to lead a baton charge against stone-throwers during a contest between Linfield and Belfast Celtic in 1935 . |
| 9 | Afterwards we could look round at leisure . ’ |
| 10 | For Camus the sky was a source of sustenance that he could draw on at will ; for me it is a thwarted promise , yearned for and glimpsed against the odds . |
| 11 | I could dribble on at length about but I wo n't cos this is a Leeds list after all , and also Tim might get narky : - ] |
| 12 | Well if you can get on with people like that that you 've never met before you can , you 'd get on at college it 's just the same . |
| 13 | Within a week he was a member , within a fortnight he 'd come out at home and within three weeks his father was at the CHE group wanting to know what the hell was going on . |
| 14 | Then she 'd start on at Mum , ‘ When can I go to Rainbows ? |
| 15 | Cornelius would remain on at school until real work could be found for him . |
| 16 | People say , ‘ Hey , The Charlatans have gone in at number 19 , ’ but in the Sixties the Stones would go in at number one . |
| 17 | Janet , tiptoeing out into the hall when Penman had opened the door , said that Aunt Emily was resting and would come down at tea-time . |
| 18 | In our last letter you will remember we were concerned about what size of house we would have , how the children would settle in at school , how Jack would feel leaving paid employment . |
| 19 | THE United Nations yesterday announced a surprise weapons inspection visit to Iraq , and said experts would fly in at dawn today . |
| 20 | I was told they know how to honour their dead in the Highland regiments but the next time I go to Edinburgh I will gaze up at Dad Tam , and see both of my sons in that solid likeness ( despite the Kitchener moustache ) . |
| 21 | Unix-on-Mac house Tenon Intersystems Inc will show up at Unix Expo with its Mach Ten running on an Apple Powerbook . |
| 22 | He will look back at precedent , for he is bound to do so . |
| 23 | No doubt the real celebrations will follow back at home . |
| 24 | Mr Powell will step down at Christmas , days before Carlton takes over the franchise held by Thames on New Year 's Day . |
| 25 | The temptation for the rich nations will be to avoid or limit them by deferring expenditures on pre-emptive measures which will add up at home to taxes , higher energy costs and technology transfers to poor countries striving to compete with the donors . |
| 26 | and Joanna will come in at quarter past six . |
| 27 | Yeah , yeah six minutes past the hour so there , yeah , so they kept giving you doubts , now if you 're getting on this train make sure you get out at Lemington , so at about twenty past twelve , the twelve six went out from platform eleven , why , cos that will upset everything then , by , few of the trains kept coming round , then they said were very sorry but the Shrewsbury train will come in at platform ten that 's where we 're all waiting , so the ready train be outside somewhere , so , that came in just as the , the twelve , six went out about twenty past twelve these in and this girl got up so we said do n't get on this , you 'll never get to Birmingham you get on here , wait until we get on we said , cos they changed the train , oh she was getting all worked up , she come from Middlesborough , well I said well , well , anyway , we said no , there , there 's no trains for university no , nobody will be going at the right time will they ? |
| 28 | The economy will settle down at point A , a position of neoclassical equilibrium from the point of view of firms , though obviously not from the point of view of households , which would prefer to be at point B. Households must therefore revise downwards their planned expenditure on goods in the light of their failure to sell all of their labour services . |
| 29 | Secondary education is compulsory up to the age of 16 , and pupils can stay on at school for up to three years longer . |
| 30 | ‘ That you can stay on at Sleet as long as you like , but with the new owner , should he wish to take residence there . |