Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] [adv] at the [adj] " in BNC.

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1 It is clear that the derivation of the high number of word paths from mid-classes and the problem of filtering them out at the lexical access stage means that syntactic/semantic information must be brought to bear as soon as words are accessed .
2 As she let herself in at the front door her mother 's voice came booming out of the kitchen .
3 In spite of his explanations they 'd insisted on signing him out at the little cabin , and he 'd snatched the case out of his car and run back , wondering why it always rained .
4 Chris Wolley emerged as a great choir leader and guitar player at this period and his strident voice leading the crew seemed to calm the roughest sea or cheer us up at the right moment .
5 I do n't even know whether they let them off at the head office .
6 The chappie who let you in at the front door was Norman he 's form Salford East .
7 Fen dropped her off at the front door of Chimneys .
8 Anyway , I had built her up at the front end so that she was standing with her fore feet on a half door and had given her a strong oily purgative .
9 He told her so at the very end .
10 ‘ I 'm afraid I 've plunged you in at the deep end .
11 Or drop them in at the Northern Echo offices in Northallerton and Darlington .
12 Exasperated Pakistani officials have threatened to round up the Arabs and drop them off at the American embassy .
13 Overall the computational complexity of the system rules it out at the present time for application to the recognition task .
14 Yes yes if members had any complaints about their work I would report it up at the head office and up up at the the branch office in Park .
15 I checked everything in at the left-luggage office in Liverpool Street station , and then went off to make a couple of telephone calls .
16 ‘ When you killed me back at the Miskatonic ?
17 I 'll drop you off at the Jolly Farmer , then you can walk up the hill to get to the school .
18 ‘ Emilia , dearest , do you imagine I could abandon you now at the very moment I have longed for ?
19 They have fired this interest by spending £44m on the issue , aiming it primarily at the retail investor when one might expect an issue of this sort to be more suitable for institutions .
20 Please do not hesitate to contact me here at the above number if you have any other queries or concerns .
21 Whisper it not at the British Heart Foundation , but we knew that , as well as the salt , into that dinner had gone a dozen eggs , a couple of pints of cream , half a pound of butter , a quarter-pound of sugar and about half a pint of Calvados .
22 I decided the only thing to do was throw her in at the deep end and go right down the village high street , where the roads were busiest and noisiest with holiday-makers , and simply stand there trying to calm her down .
23 Lance Buckmaster , our esteemed Minister for External Security has asked me to attend him down at the ancestral home , Tavey Grange on Dartmoor . ’
24 We realise that chucking them in at the deep end is not satisfactory .
25 ‘ For dropping you in at the deep end , before you 'd had a chance to get your bearings … ’
26 ‘ But they will never take you , Don — I will hide you here — no , I will hide you up at the old shieling hut — or we could run away west into Rannoch — ‘ There are forts everywhere .
27 When they reached the prison , at Riom , and an official tried to argue that they had no authority to remove the canisters , Jacques Allier took out a pistol and levelled it wordlessly at the bureaucratic face .
28 He said : ‘ I asked her to drop me off at the nearby Woodcutters Club .
29 ‘ We shall know whether they sink or swim by putting them in at the deep end , and I have every confidence that they will all do well .
30 Codron tried to get it on at the Royal Court — on the face of things , an ideal setting-but it was turned down there , too .
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