Example sentences of "[verb] at [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On Thursday 31 April 700 Lisbon soldiers disembarked at Caniçal and , aided by fog , took the town of Machico and forced the rebels into the hills to the west . |
| 2 | I myself , not having much knowledge of computer electronics called for the services of a professional Computer Engineer , after explaining the symptoms he gave the PC a thorough check , he then informed me no fault could be found but suggested that as the problem was intermittent and the PC was somewhat old , it could be susceptible to noise not conducted but radiated at some external source , Radio Frequency Interference ( R.F.I. ) . |
| 3 | Disembarking at certain points from a leisurely cruise , your guide , Bernie Dunn , arguably the best guide in Amsterdam will take you through Amsterdam 's most enchanting neighbourhoods by foot . |
| 4 | Music for entertainment … seems to complement the reduction of people to silence , the dying out of speech as expression , the inability to communicate at all . |
| 5 | The ability to communicate at all levels , and to retain the confidence of your clients is vital ; you have to work with each other , so this confidence must exist and must override any personality clashes . |
| 6 | Objectively the chances of reaching the Chancellor 's 3 per cent growth target in 1994 are mixed at best . |
| 7 | This genetic cohesion of a population arises because , while the very slow processes of homogenisation are at work ( among copies of a family on the same and different chromosomes ) , the chromosomes in a population are being mixed at each generation . |
| 8 | In the reptilian heart most of the blood gets round the body on the first circuit , but with the four-chambered heart — in mammals , birds and ( imperfectly ) in crocodiles — the blood from the two circuits is not mixed at all . |
| 9 | The new mortar should be mixed at one part cement to four parts sand . |
| 10 | Charles Laubscher recalls : ‘ My feelings were mixed at this news ( of the move to Malta ) . |
| 11 | " Oh I get it , I 've twigged at last . |
| 12 | S. H. The worst part of the job is when you had to go round that beat at four o'clock in the morning and it 's teeming with rain . |
| 13 | Under harder acceleration it intrudes , finishing up as a deep , rough-edged sounding beat at full throttle . |
| 14 | After the third day of REM sleep deprivation little sleep at all was being achieved , and the symptoms that the subjects showed were a combination of the effects of total sleep deprivation and suggestion . |
| 15 | No need for you to worry at all . ’ |
| 16 | But I spoke with Mr about half an hour ago on the telephone , told him not to worry at all , that |
| 17 | There was 110 possible reason why he should have wished at that stage to foreclose his options between December and January , or January and the spring . |
| 18 | The drop down from Meall Corranaich and back up to Beinn Ghlas was a great deal more substantial than I would have wished at this point in the walk , keeping in mind that I was hallucinating from the effort of the chase and the subsequent lack of oxygen managing to get anywhere near my lungs via a mouth full of clenched teeth . |
| 19 | When I look upon the wall of my room , the wall does not act at all , nor is capable of acting ; the perceiving is an act or operation in me . |
| 20 | He really can not act at all . |
| 21 | In Les quatre Souhais Saint Martin : ( Through this fabliau you may know that he does not act at all wisely who trusts his wife rather than himself : often he suffers shame and grief . ) |
| 22 | If a market surplus of liquidity is forecast , then the Bank will only act at 2.00 p.m. if it is large . |
| 23 | To quote Kurt Vonnegut in Bluebeard : ‘ In the movies back then , just about any big-nosed person whose ancestors came from the shores of the Mediterranean or the Near East , if he could act at little , could play a rampaging Sioux or whatever . |
| 24 | Harlow , however , hit back to square at 17-17 and after the pair had traded singles on the next two ends , a finishing burst of three singles for the Englishman gave him the title . |
| 25 | Jetting across the Atlantic , after two years in America , she had looked forward to seeing her home town from the air , to retracing toy-sized , familiar landmarks , to marvelling at new unfamiliar ones . |
| 26 | This translates as ‘ Why are you marvelling at this exceptional house . |
| 27 | Alice stood marvelling at this thought : that only a couple of days ago Mary Williams had seemed to hold her own fate Alice 's — in her hands ; and now Alice had difficulty in even remembering her status . |
| 28 | ‘ I 'm sure he would be proud of you , ’ Merrill said slowly , still marvelling at this new-found empathy . |
| 29 | Memory and imagination were grappling at each other 's throats , and these people would lose if he lay here much longer . |
| 30 | RIVAS OF BLOOD STEMMED AT LAST |