Example sentences of "[indef pn] [verb] [adv] at the " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . ’ |
| 2 | They could perhaps find a replacement make-up artist , though that would prove difficult at such short notice , but someone coming in at the last moment would find it hard to cope with the unusual styles , and the actors would be having problems enough dealing with first-night nerves without having to face any added strain . |
| 3 | Grabbing a robe and a towel , she was heading for the shower when someone tapped quietly at the cabin door . |
| 4 | Yes , it 's disappointing , but when someone comes in at the last minute then the adrenalin flows and you can have a very lively show . |
| 5 | I remember somebody came in at the shop and says the Newminster School had been sent home , but where , which school 's that ? |
| 6 | He could hear somebody talking urgently at the other end but his mind was still scrambled and he could not decipher the words . |
| 7 | Everyone turned up at the 42nd Street Theatre that night to see Noreen make her New York debut . |
| 8 | I hope everything goes well at the country cottage . ’ |
| 9 | She tells Hello ! of her wishes for the baby : ‘ One is that everything goes well at the birth . |
| 10 | no one sits out at the tables |
| 11 | ‘ He had another one made later at the Mandarin Hotel , but the first one made him something of a laughing stock . ’ |
| 12 | One looks up at the cheery advertisement that reads ‘ Lonely ? |
| 13 | It should be remembered that the modern movement was responsible for great moral and social improvements when one looks sentimentally at the past . |
| 14 | [ … ] When one looks merely at the situation after the resource has been monopolized by the entrepreneurial skill of the producer , one sees only a monopolist producer — exempt from competition to the extent his resource monopoly permits . |
| 15 | If one looks only at the outer signs , one may see a cantankerous , dotty old person , but in the soul something very different may be perceived . |
| 16 | It has been said that the surety 's obligation is simply that of paying money and , of course , in a sense that is true if one looks only at the remedy which the landlord has against him in the event of default by the tenant . |
| 17 | If one looks back at the text-books and review papers written about psychobiology during t , his period one finds that they were largely preoccupied with topics like motivation and emotion . |
| 18 | It makes one look again at the plants in one 's garden and wonder what secret messages are being passed in ways too subtle for our human senses to grasp . |
| 19 | Even if she could n't get a game , there 'd be something going on at the club , and it would be better than moping around at home . |
| 20 | No wonder the ‘ troops on the ground ’ are cynical , for they know ‘ real work ’ is for young officers and is something to leave behind at the first opportunity ! |
| 21 | But before the great affair struck up , one looked around at the new faces : Steve Milligan , who used to be our foreign editor at the Sunday Times , Lady Olga Maitland , nicer than her impossible opinions , whom I chiefly remember for being very good about expenses at the Sunday Express ( one wonders if Kelvin Mackenzie might have slipped in late for Chislehurst ) , Nigel Jones , the Lib Dem from Cheltenham with the Lenin beard , and a man and woman sitting together , pointed out as Gordon and Brigid Prentice who , if they flourish in Labour politics , will be compared in the Sun two elections from now with the Ceausescus . |
| 22 | The big one looked up at the night sky , seeking inspiration . |
| 23 | If you succeed in finding another job , or already have one lined up at the time that you go , it may not be worth suing your employer because the losses for which you could claim reimbursement may be minimal . |
| 24 | And then , as his eye flicked mechanically over the page , it caught something tucked away at the bottom of one of the columns . |
| 25 | No one pointed out at the time that radio , like other media of mass communication , leaves the audience with the choice of looking elsewhere . |
| 26 | And erm each one begins here at the Archaeological Resource Centre and takes you through alleyways and back passages explains , where to go er with drawings text and explains it all . |
| 27 | Er , she says that she 's er , there 's absolutely nothing doing just at the moment , erm , but she says that she never knows the time when she will be called upon to you know , be asked to do a trip , but |
| 28 | Soon , the spaceship left Earth , and everyone looked down at the burning planet . |
| 29 | you know , you ai n't got nothing to live on at the end of the |
| 30 | There was n't any ground or anything to walk on at the end ! |