Example sentences of "[to-vb] [adv] at the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Remember Ah asked ye to go slowly at the start ? |
| 2 | But I am still going to sit right at the back of the aeroplane away from you ! |
| 3 | Pa has given special permission for the godparents and me to stand inside at the Jonah window , while he does the immersion outside . |
| 4 | Its regulated , preventive surveillance features , in practice meant ‘ moving on ’ those civilians who dared to stand idly at the street corner . |
| 5 | This objection can easily be overcome by allowing two students to work together at the terminal — a method which appears to facilitate learning . |
| 6 | Often George came in at five o'clock in the morning to hammer away at the pirate ship in the carpenter 's shop . |
| 7 | ‘ Not that anyone 's going to come anyway at the moment . |
| 8 | He believed , and she had once heard him say , that eventually she would , naturally , come round to his way of thinking , and she had vowed to work harder at the study of English literature in order to learn enough words to refute him once and for all . |
| 9 | Meanwhile back in Wales , Philip Burton had taken the plunge , moved to Cardiff and gone to work full-time at the BBC as a producer . |
| 10 | He used to scream even at the idea of fresh air , but now he spends all his time outside in his wheelchair , with Miss Mary and Dickon Sowerby . |
| 11 | One hacker 's wife remarked : ‘ The whole thing started when he began to work late at the office , and I began to think that there was another woman . |
| 12 | ‘ Let's have a picnic , ’ she said , telling herself that next week she would make a real effort to work again at the practice of virtue . |
| 13 | If the unholy alliance in favour of the National Curriculum is likely to come apart at the seams over the issue of resource , so also , given the very different aspirations of those who support its introduction , there is likely to be a parting of the ways over principles . |
| 14 | The reasons for the job cuts are a classified secret , but volunteers for redundancy and early retirement are being urged to come forward at the base in Cheltenham , where seven thousand people work . |
| 15 | Bending forward , she trailed her mouth delicately across the bridge of his nose to his cheek , then down to hover tantalisingly at the corner of his mouth . |
| 16 | Unlike Van der Ven , London dealer Angela Gräfin von Wallwitz , who specializes in Continental Ceramics and Works of Art , has elected to exhibit only at the Grosvenor House Fair this year . |
| 17 | They assumed that pupils , mostly boys , of course , who were failing on the school reading scheme simply needed more and more opportunity to slog away at the phonics and sight vocabulary while under tight supervision . |
| 18 | It would be ironic to pick away at the mortar for a few decades only to break through into the next-door cell . |
| 19 | Then it moved closer and began to scratch frantically at the foot of the bin . |
| 20 | Oxygen depletion causes fish to gulp strongly at the water surface . |
| 21 | ‘ In prayer we are gradually hollowed out to become more ‘ capax Dei ’ ’ ( capacity for God ) , said Maria Boulding , and someone pastoring others will be only too aware of the need to receive even at the price of felt ( and often uncomfortable ) emptiness . |
| 22 | Last spring Nelson Mandela was released and the USSR began to split apart at the seams . |
| 23 | And he especially wants to encourage female football players to join : ‘ We do n't get the response we should from the girls it would be nice to see more at the schools . ’ |
| 24 | They refused to go home at the end of their shift and worked frantically to reach him . |
| 25 | ‘ I like the bit where I get to go home at the end . |
| 26 | Is it not time to look afresh at the foundations of our laws in relation to mental illness with a view to making the central focus that of providing a framework whereby those whose judgment is so impaired by their illness that they are unable to recognise the need for treatment will receive such treatment in as humane , sensitive and effective a way as possible . |
| 27 | The second stage may attempt to look afresh at the situation and to create new perspectives using lateral thinking and brain-storming . |
| 28 | Desmond Barker was however , appointed to look afresh at the Constitution in general . |
| 29 | On the way to my next appointment with Denis King , a piano and some Joyce Grenfell songs , I stopped at a nearby theatre to smile winsomely at the box office boys in the hope that they 'd recognize me , in spite of my Titian disguise , and sell me some tickets for their sell-out play . |
| 30 | I do not wish you to violate your oath of secrecy or your conscience but , ’ and he tuned to look eagerly at the Bishop , ‘ with His Lordship 's permission , I would like to take you aside and quietly ask you one question ? |