Example sentences of "[pos pn] [noun] [adv] at [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Tom Horrocks has put my mind quite at rest , ’ he said . |
| 2 | I am ready to keep the pack law , to do a good turn every day , and to help my parents especially at home . |
| 3 | It is going to effect my trade very much because the Americans are the mainstay of my business particularly at lunchtime . |
| 4 | I began thus for to assent both to them and diverse of my friends here at home and not less to an inward prompting which daily now grew upon me , that by labour and intent study , which I take to be my portion in this life , joined with a strong propensity of nature , I might perhaps leave something so written to aftertimes as they should not willingly let it die . ’ |
| 5 | Young and old let their hair down at Hogmanay |
| 6 | He would give them the benefit of his theories that letting their hair down at pop concerts and football matches would be a therapeutic and profitable use of their leisure time . |
| 7 | Louise had been like Alice once , and now she wandered round the house like a wraith , her mind never at rest . |
| 8 | They were six-five ahead and Drew and Ricky had their heads together at half-time . |
| 9 | The teacher had noticed that Martha held her books almost at arm 's length . |
| 10 | Cacti have deep and spreading roots , store water in their stems , capture water from the air , have a reduced surface area , and practise a form of photosynthesis which requires them to open their stomata only at night ( see p. 95 ) . |
| 11 | Many specialist desert plants practise a peculiar form of photosynthesis known as crassulacean acid metabolism ( CAM ) whereby they open their stomata only at night , when water loss is liable to be at a minimum . |
| 12 | It is believed that many dischargers , particularly industrialists , have such control over their manufacturing and treatment processes that they are able to alter the quality and quantity of their effluents virtually at will , as economic considerations dictate . |
| 13 | In fact she lay in the warm , dark grey shadows of her room quite at peace for the first time since she had come to Italy . |
| 14 | Trainer Denys Smith said : ‘ She has always done her job nicely at home , and she will improve for that , and get further . ’ |
| 15 | She hated herself for it , her pride and her need constantly at war , but finally by lunchtime her need won . |
| 16 | Despite a certain amount of success , including a best-ever tenth in the league ( 73/74 ) , when the board decided to switch training from Tuesday to Thursday Hilda was forced to resign , as it would clash with her night out at bingo . |
| 17 | Kelly 's classmates are happy to have their friend back at school . |
| 18 | Unless this means actual ballot-rigging , it must refer to bribing people not to put their names forward at deme level for the ballot for the Council ; the candidate who ‘ eagerly put his name forward ’ according to Lysias ( xxxi. 33 ) is evidence that this stage of the process was voluntary . |
| 19 | Notwithstanding that the royal prerogative as a source of power for the government antedates Acts of Parliament , has been at the root of a civil war and a revolution in England and has been litigated about on countless major occasions in respect of its use both at home and overseas , its scope is still unclear as is the role of the courts in relation thereto . |
| 20 | So Dot kept her coat on at breakfast-time but Mrs Hollidaye did n't seem to mind . |
| 21 | It reproduced American anxieties around cultures of deprivation and the supposed pathologies of ‘ the black family ’ , stressing the relatively large proportion of ‘ West Indian ’ mothers who undertook paid employment outside the home , the incidence of one-parent families , and the supposed ignorance of ‘ West Indian ’ parents about the need to help their children academically at home ( DES , 1981 , pp. 15ff , 43 ) . |
| 22 | Well I get involved in it in so many different ways erm this is a difficult one , but one of the things that happens is that a number of teachers , both from the area and elsewhere , erm do advanced courses at the university and as part of these courses we have a unit on evaluation , and for this they will choose some area of their school work which they and their colleagues — and I emphasise that this is something they do have to involve their colleagues back at school in very much — erm feel it would be useful to look at and then they try and discuss with their colleagues what aspects of it are important and significant and what ought to be seen , and they bring this discussion back and we all discuss together there 'll be different teachers working on different problems the different ways in which they could approach this problem and how they might most usefully be able to do it and at the end of the exercise they will have found out quite a lot about this particular area of teaching and very often we find that the people they 've consulted have themselves got quite interested in it and begun to realize that it 's not being done in a way that 's there to threaten them , they 're not sending a report to the headmaster or the Chief Education Officer or anything like that — it 's for the benefit of the people doing the work themselves . |
| 23 | She assured him that his apprehensions about her travelling late at night were quite unfounded : she and her sisters had been allowed to travel about unaccompanied in Southport and London since the age of twelve or thirteen . |
| 24 | Simpson 's passion for Price 's started way back , when his father used to take its candles home at Christmas . |
| 25 | So , this is the secret you 've been incubating , Roirbak , Jahsaxa thought , curled in her office late at night , turning a glass of rich , golden mezcal in her hands . |
| 26 | But Elaine 's temper flared when she spotted Mr Friend in his Merc with a woman — and later saw his car outside her house late at night . |
| 27 | Looking in the direction indicated , George saw a smithy , with the blacksmith and his striker hard at work . |
| 28 | But none have needed this much attention , never leaving his side even at work , much to the delight of colleagues . |
| 29 | She swayed and bumped against Uncle Philip and he dropped his joviality like a brick and shook his fist balefully at Finn over his head . |
| 30 | It was Hudd , five seasons ago , who waved his flag furiously at referee Hobbs when , unsighted , he failed to spot Proby forcing his shinpad down the throat of Mossborough Sandinista 's Keith Driscoll until alerted by the enthusiastic linesman . |