Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] at [adj] [noun sg] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | A few checks will soon show which tags ( if any ) connect together at each position of the switch . |
| 2 | The men sleep together at one end of the dwelling , on a raised ledge covered with more clean straw which , of course , must be brought with them . |
| 3 | In a cavity between it and the central part of the body , most species have gills which are continually bathed by a current of oxygen-bearing water , sucked in at one end of the cavity and expelled at the other . |
| 4 | The gap between the two , although only a few metres wide , is deep enough for my boat to pass through at any state of tide . |
| 5 | Rival villages would line up at either end of the green to do this . |
| 6 | ‘ Meg 's no good — she 's away — and you wo n't want to be driving far at this time of night … ’ |
| 7 | They operate in basically the same way , but VITC coding has to be recorded onto the tape ( of course without being visible in the picture ) , at the time of shooting or while being copied onto a second tape ; RCTC coding on the other hand can be carried out at any stage of the editing process , and so is the more flexible of the two systems . |
| 8 | He had businesses in the North and used regularly at this time of year at the end of the summer sales , to go the rounds of his shops , take stock , examine the books , and so on . |
| 9 | Other members of the group shift awkwardly at this picture of Arcadia in Southall , until an economist announces coldly that ‘ it is axiomatic that anything the state does it does worse than the private sector . ’ |
| 10 | Tess seemed like a queen to Clare , perhaps because he knew that she was the most beautiful woman walking about at this time of day . |
| 11 | At these moments he looks closely at each inch of her face , like a valuer frowningly examining some precious object . |
| 12 | He often dropped in at this time of day , and frequently stayed for a drink on the veranda and an inspection of Faye 's work in the air-conditioned studio at the back of the house that would be used more and more as the hot summer approached . |
| 13 | His hands came down at either side of her , trapping her against the wall . |
| 14 | Overall , equations ( 9.78 ) and ( 9.79 ) allow for a signal being fed in at one end of a transmission line , propagating along it and being partially reflected at the other end to give a wave travelling in the opposite direction . |
| 15 | Commoners were discouraged from looking directly at any part of his person other than his feet . |
| 16 | The children line up at one end of the room with the organizer ( grandmother ) at the other . |
| 17 | The bears line up at one end of the room . |
| 18 | An RSPCA official said : ‘ This all seems very pointless because wasps die out at this time of year anyway . ’ |
| 19 | Inside , the headmaster 's room is partitioned off at one end of the building . |
| 20 | Often they germinate well at this time of year , and will overwinter and get off to a good start next spring . |
| 21 | Three men huddle uncomfortably at one end of the table . |
| 22 | But the Board now asks the general assembly to look again at this part of our remit and to form a judgment about where this work should be most effectively done in future . |
| 23 | A product of the tail-end of the Northern Soul scene ( a mid-'70s underground dance phenomenon equivalent to electro/acid 's renegade '90s appeal ) , Tony and Gordon met up at that hotbed of creativity , Stockport Tech and settled in Sheffield . |
| 24 | A product of the tail-end of the Northern Soul scene ( a mid-'70s underground dance phenomenon equivalent to electro/acid 's renegade '90s appeal ) , Tony and Gordon met up at that hotbed of creativity , Stockport Tech and settled in Sheffield . |
| 25 | SOUTH TYNEDALE Railway Diesel Day Chance to get all steamed up at unique collection of classic British industrial engines including ‘ Tiny Tim ’ and ‘ The Wickham Trolley ’ . |
| 26 | But you were too young to realise just how much work you have to put in at that stage of building up a business , how much effort it takes to hold the whole thing together and stop it from collapsing around you . ’ |
| 27 | So while his real eyes glanced round at another vault of blank green rock , his A eyes saw the first of the ghosts sliding out of the stone to say hi . |
| 28 | It is not easy to hit back at that sort of conversation . |
| 29 | ‘ League points are still important to us and nobody wants to miss out at this stage of the season . ’ |
| 30 | For several weeks now he had been chipping away at this problem of finding Elsie , slowly nagging it into submission . |