Example sentences of "and [adv] at the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | From time to time the press throws mud ( not literally but in its columns ) at Princess Margaret , Princess Michael of Kent and latterly at the Duchess of York . |
| 2 | Upon the latter 's death , he was educated at a hearing school in Clapham and thence at the Marlborough School of Art . |
| 3 | But it 'll tell you how many first appointments you 've had , how many fact finds you did , how many subsequent presentations , how many , how many sales you did in September ninety three , week , all the rest of it , and right at the bottom here it 's got the ratios , right , how many approaches to sales agreed . |
| 4 | A little museum in Broadbank helps to tell the history of the town and right at the door is placed the Blue-stone : an enormous boulder which once stood on a street corner in the town and is thought to have been brought here by the Scandinavian ice flow . |
| 5 | This was a anti-tank and it fired a bomb and of course we put a demonstration on firing this and then we was up the Bell Lane end and right at the top by Bailey 's farm there was a row of seats , benches , along the walk there and of course the demonstration was we 'd show them imagine those seats are tanks course we never thought in the world we should ever even get near one anyway we hit one and broke it Cos they , they , I mean they was only dummies , they were n't , I mean there was no explosive just the dummy shell you know and we , we was quite pleased with ourselves being as we 'd got an audience . |
| 6 | Make em laugh , make em cry , the Muppets from Lord Grade 's ATV , a pioneering puppet show … and right at the heart of it was Bill Ward . |
| 7 | And right at the death , when Bangor were down to 14 men with scrum half Stephen Matchett receiving treatment , McMaster finished off a fine move sparked by McCall 's half break . |
| 8 | This was only his second murder in eighteen years , and he was somewhat annoyed by it , coming as it did during the best fishing of the year , and right at the time when his garden was at its peak . |
| 9 | He and his wife were a ‘ very , very thrifty ’ , simple-living couple , and right at the end of their long lives quite close . |
| 10 | ‘ Yeah , there are times , because certain guitars do n't have a wangy bar , that you get a great solo for most of the song and right at the end you want to maybe slide down and you ca n't do it , so you 'd have to find a guitar that would do that , and then blend it in . ’ |
| 11 | An experience of which I am thoroughly ashamed , and thankfully at the time my crew never knew , came to pass one night early in 1943 . |
| 12 | Whoever farms the land in question may very well want the rabbits disposed of — but not at the price of constant disturbance of his land and perhaps at the risk of the well-being of the game shooting . |
| 13 | Man is a god in ruins , thought Emerson , and perhaps at the end of the twentieth century much the same could be said of his world , a still beautiful but ravaged paradise which , regardless of the tenets of sustainable development will not be passed on to the next century in better or even the same condition , in fact , almost certainly in worse condition as a result of meeting the needs of another billion or so people . |
| 14 | And down at the road there . |
| 15 | There 's a moment when he looks away from the camera and down at the floor and softly says , ‘ Nobody 's young any more … |
| 16 | The last thing when you 're all in , in when you 're all in , and down at the bottom they curve under like that you know , curve under . |
| 17 | Well , if I erm said to one of my students something about that was a very good essay you wrote , in fact I 'd like to discuss it a little bit more down at the pub and down at the pub I put my hand on his knee perhaps in making a point about how good his essay was . |
| 18 | Do 20 walking jogs on the spot , raising your arms up and down at the sides . |
| 19 | Just grab the knife up over head and down at the table . |
| 20 | It was working perfectly back in Manchester , when you had it going up and down at the traffic lights to impress those schoolgirls . ’ |
| 21 | He stamped up and down at the limit of the firelight and listened to the silence of the hills . |
| 22 | in academic scholarship the divorce between the ‘ two cultures ’ , the humanities and the sciences , sadly persists , and only at the practitioner level is there some collaboration between the social worker and the public health engineer … |
| 23 | The dividing wall holding this tank only attracts sunlight from one side and for only a couple of hours a day , and only at the height of summer . |
| 24 | A real detective superintendent investigating a murder will confine himself largely to facts and only at the height of questioning someone he is almost certain is his quarry is he likely to go into motivation as a way , as often as not , of bring about a final confession . |
| 25 | ‘ He 'll be able to take marvellous photos while he 's in India , wo n't he ? ’ her mother had gone on , and only at the tail-end of their conversation did she think to mention their mortgage . |
| 26 | The cells from the outside move into the interior during gastrulation and only at the end of the gastrulation are they more or less in their proper position . |
| 27 | I did n't know him and only at the end did he wish to know me . ’ |
| 28 | Party structures were solidifying and governments more securely based and less at the mercy of House of Commons votes . |
| 29 | Roger in his comfortable jacket , his hair receding and long at the back , the foetal guitar in his arms , singing a song about buffalo . |
| 30 | I mean at the moment they 've got it short , but they have it long here and long at the back and then everywhere else short , short back and sides |