Example sentences of "on at the [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | A lady I knew many years ago designed knitted suits and so on at the drop of a hat . |
| 2 | Turning to the subject of handwriting , this has been touched on at the beginning of this chapter . |
| 3 | 1 What is going on at the beginning of the poem ? 2 What do you think has happened before the poem begins ? 3 Do you think the boys are afraid ? |
| 4 | A short distance further on at the foot of the side-valley of Deepdale and snugly sheltered by a background of trees , is the Methodist Chapel of Deepdale , a survivor amongst the many Methodist chapels in the district that have ceased to provide services and been sold . |
| 5 | I keep as many of your letters as I can store to look back on at the turn of the century , which we 're both going to see ! |
| 6 | It was first worked on at the turn of the century by the American psychologist , E. L. Thorndike , and more recently by another American psychologist , B. F. Skinner , and many others . |
| 7 | Should he ask him what was going on at the top of the Ministry and why they were resurrecting the Zoser case ? |
| 8 | ‘ She 's not very forthcoming always about what 's going on at the back of her mind , ’ he said after a time in a soft voice to Jo-Ann , ‘ but I can generally tell something about it from the way she moves her toes . |
| 9 | The unending toil , which ground on at the pace of the changing seasons and the constant struggle against relentless Nature would be in vain , as far as Jonadab Oaks was concerned , unless there were others of his name to follow in his footsteps and work this land to which he had devoted his life . |
| 10 | The Blumenthalstrasse address turned out to be one of the shoeboxes , a five-storey block of flats with the staircase and lift-shaft stuck on at the side of a column of frosted-glass bricks . |
| 11 | Similar voltage waveforms apply to windings B and C with an appropriate phase displacement , so that winding C , for example , is turned on at the mid-point of the winding freewheeling interval . |
| 12 | It all became a kind of tribute to the Falklands which was going on at the time of writing . |
| 13 | Which opera was Puccini working on at the time of his death ? |
| 14 | There are few children who do not experience the death of a much-loved grandparent or pet when they are quite young , and yet so often they are excluded from all the changes that go on at the time of a grandparent 's death , as though in some way this will leave them unaffected . |
| 15 | It should be no more and no less than the business carried on at the time of completion . |
| 16 | Judge Alfredo Gustilo said in Manila Burton 's claim that he did not know the contraband was among his belongings was ‘ absurd ’ because customs police found four blocks of hashish hidden in the pair of shoes he had on at the time of his arrest . |
| 17 | ‘ It is something on at the Tower of London . ’ |
| 18 | ‘ We 'd expect you to stay a couple of years , but obviously there 's going to be no pressure on you to move on at the end of that period . |
| 19 | This acute retention of urine constitutes one of medicine 's most uncomfortable emergencies , with its habit of coming on at the end of and evening 's drinking ( usually beer ) adding a bloated urgency to the situation . |
| 20 | It does n't have to be slid on at the end of the needlebed . |
| 21 | Teleworkers can operate at the kitchen table with a couple of filing cabinets tucked under it but most prefer to use a separate room they can shut the door on at the end of the day . |
| 22 | Alice sat on at the end of the table , in the quiet kitchen . |
| 23 | A lack of narrative drive leaves the reader with piecemeal vignettes , an impression confirmed by the poems tacked on at the end of the book . |
| 24 | Sampson would simply assume that he had n't put the chain on at the end of his last stay . |
| 25 | Sorry about that whingeing on at the end of the last letter . |
| 26 | If they seriously believe that in the context of the present constitutional crisis between Scotland and the rest of the United Kingdom they can introduce what are crude and dangerous league tables into Scottish education — and do so by means of a single clause tacked on at the end of an English and Welsh Bill which is otherwise wholly irrelevant to Scotland — they have taken leave of their collective senses . |
| 27 | J.B. Leishman 's translation reads : What the translation misses here is the distinctive highlighting effect of the repeated non , and the focus on at the end of a line : " " not lineage , not eloquence , not righteousness shall restore you . " " |
| 28 | It was thought the cause of the fire was a student leaving a bunsen burner on at the end of day . |
| 29 | ‘ In fact , we 're staying on at the end of this trip to do the world cruise . ’ |
| 30 | James 's problems were increased by a break in filming between the bulk of his scenes and a few that had to be tacked on at the end of the shoot . |