Example sentences of "be [verb] [adv prt] at [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It would have been much better if those girls had been tucked up at home in bed , ’ said prosecuting counsel in the Brixton rape trial … . |
| 2 | You do not have to be a Marxist to see that the official statistics of unemployment include only those who are signing on at Job Centres and are eligible for benefit . |
| 3 | EIGHT Yorkshire miners , trapped for 15 hours behind thousands of tons of rock , coal and twisted steel half a mile underground , are expected back at work today after what British Coal described as ‘ a stunningly successful ’ rescue operation . |
| 4 | ‘ By the look of what 's on the meter some sucker 's been driving around at ground level . |
| 5 | Remember also , the pitfalls for children of ‘ tickly ’ yarns ( I hate that jumper , it tickles ) , of necks being too tight ( I 'll never wear that thing again ) when ears have almost been severed off at bedtime ! |
| 6 | In fact , much so-called juvenile water is probably either rainwater that has circulated to great depths , or water that was trapped in rocks that have been carried down at subduction zones ( see Inside Science , No. 6 , 23 February 1988 ) . |
| 7 | The musicians are paid a pittance , eat out on the street at night and pay for floor space to sleep in a garage until they are turned out at dawn . |
| 8 | No luxury cruise around the Mediterranean could have been half as rewarding ; I should have been fed up at sea and embarrassed ashore , always conscious of the intrusion of our party as we were shown the sights . |
| 9 | And we talk about standard light bulbs — the idea here is that take a terrestrial example again , suppose you 're looking out at night and you see a light approaching you , if it 's a cyclist with a very faint light then you 'll not see him until he 's quite close . |
| 10 | If you 're going out at night , make sure your parents always know where you are , who you are with and how to contact you . |
| 11 | We got so that , I mean , especially if we 're going out at night and something 's |
| 12 | that means you 're getting in at midnight into |
| 13 | A devolution of power had also been going on at home and all our policy must take account of it . |
| 14 | More 16-year-olds are staying on at school than ever before — more than 50 per cent . |
| 15 | A police spokeswoman said an incident room had been set up at West Hendon police station but that the investigation had not become a murder inquiry . |
| 16 | To date , in certain areas of company law , minimum standards have been laid down at Community level , and apply to companies throughout the EC , irrespective of where they are incorporated or have their central administration . |
| 17 | General Robert Schweitzer , who told this story to the congressional lawyers , was a trifle envious that after 58 years of daily Mass and ‘ desperate messages to the Almighty ’ he himself had never been woken up at night ‘ with lights on the wall ’ and a vision of saving Nicaragua ; he was not sure Ms Studeley had either , but he gave her the benefit of the doubt . |
| 18 | Speed of access may also be worse , as the links between relations are set up at run time and not at data definition time . |
| 19 | But that 's just because of the way she knows Nigerian boys are brought up at home . |
| 20 | ‘ Because I 'm here , Shelley , when I ought to be tucked up at home . |
| 21 | Company policy may also specify a limit as to the number of surveys that may be carried out at company expense . |
| 22 | ‘ A very gallant and historical operation , the first torpedo attack ever to be carried out at night by the Royal Air Force . |
| 23 | And certain industrial processes , which relied on electrical machines had to be carried out at night when the supply was available , but in darkness to comply with blackout regulations . |
| 24 | , Renewal PPL ECGs will be carried out at age forty , then every two years to age fifty , then annually to age 65 . |
| 25 | Important parts of the job could be carried out at break times or through telephone calls . |
| 26 | These include the Hops Marketing Board and the Nature Conservancy Council , for example , and are justified with the argument that certain functions can best be carried out at arm 's length from central government : |
| 27 | Normally , Sodium Hydroxide — Caustic Soda ( N a OH ) — solution is used as a developing agent , and this can easily be made up at home . |
| 28 | Unless procedures change , it looks like that money too will be argued over at length , with only lawyers and accountants seeing any of it going into their own pockets . |
| 29 | Beatty on the surrender of the German High Seas Fleet in 1918 : ‘ The German flag is to be hauled down at sunset and is riot to be hoisted again without permission . ’ |
| 30 | ‘ Does n't it disgust you to be lying around at home while your child works herself into an early grave ? ’ |