Example sentences of "[verb] [adj] at the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He became friendly at the Royal College with Ted Dicks who , owing to his liveliness and ability to play the piano ( he took over at the Colony Room when Mike Mackenzie left ) soon found himself in charge of student entertainments . |
| 2 | And one of the reasons they all became interested at the same time was that a lot of them knew each other , and so one of the things I 've been looking at is the correspondence between Americans and British people , and the fact that they travelled and kept diaries of who they met in the other country , and they all swapped ideas on how to deal with this particular level of poverty . |
| 3 | Although it has been telling the world how successfully it has recovered , Unisys Corp made clear at the annual meeting last week just how parlous the company 's condition remains . |
| 4 | His bid started to go wrong at the 12th hole and spluttered out at the 17th , the Road Hole , where many an aspiration had been snuffed out in the past . |
| 5 | Somebody was telling me the Rocky was on R5 the other week & said that when he was with Arsenal & they won the league at Liverpool in the last few minutes , Arsenal were 13 ( ? ) points clear at the new year but still had to come from behind to overtake Liverpool ! ! ! |
| 6 | I actually first realised this at the second year , that when I was looking for the , the previous year , I noticed that in July the business went and I thought , because everybody 's gone on holiday . |
| 7 | So I 'd be very grateful therefore if er you could put your minds to the options and erm we could discuss that at the next board meeting . |
| 8 | In Scotland there are only a few who might in the future provide this at the top level . |
| 9 | And so it was actually becoming dangerous at the same time . |
| 10 | Most of the action would be improvised with two or three scenes happening all at the same time as in a mediaeval play . |
| 11 | Fangorn looks long at the two hobbits when they tell him Gandalf is dead ; he does so because he does n't believe them , having seen Gandalf himself a couple of days before . |
| 12 | In the mid-1970s Britain faced a more severe crisis , in which very high inflation , a balance of payments problem and continuing high unemployment occurred all at the same time . |
| 13 | Well one of the great lessons of life is of course you ca n't have everything you want all at the same time it took me about sixty years to learn that . |
| 14 | And bringing his experience of dealing with and understanding those at the front end of retail financial services with him . |
| 15 | The present paper looks first at the general context of the discussions within Ashdown School and then outlines some of the issues that emerged from the research . |
| 16 | He also described minute-taking at the final meeting as unfair . |
| 17 | There seemed a strange lack of conviction about the Ipswich display and three minutes before the interval there was another scare when Hendrie crossed from the right but Wilkinson headed wide at the far post . |
| 18 | He headed wide at the far post and then forced Reece to push his angled shot round a post . |
| 19 | Dropped dead at the Royal Norfolk show last month . |
| 20 | As a time of transition from autarchy and isolation to developmentalist capitalism and international rapprochement , the 1950s in Spain were a time of ambiguity and uncertainty , in which the first signs of a limited degree of liberalism became visible at the same time as the use of the customary repression made it clear that nothing fundamental had changed . |
| 21 | Nicola who was one of 6 children , was last seen alive at the Crumpled Horn pub at Eldene in Swindon . |
| 22 | I do not expect any difficulty in getting approval for the larger sum , and can do that at the same time as tenders are to hand for acceptance , but it will remain important to contain the total project cost as far as possible . |
| 23 | All his life he was a staunch supporter of the Bible as the ultimate truth and proclaimed this at the famous Oxford debate on evolution . |
| 24 | I thought I could best do this at the Foreign Office , since in the aftermath of Suez so many dangerous tangles remained to be unravelled and so many ruptured friendships to be mended . |
| 25 | Willie has completed 25 years service , also starting as a bank boy , then via spool setting to become a weaver before he was made redundant at the same time . |
| 26 | This is a likely problem after holidays or long weekends ; you do not feel tired at the new bedtime but do feel tired when it is time to get up . |
| 27 | And the chiller and the waterways and everything should all have been done all at the same time . |
| 28 | The heroes of the hour were left-hander David Byas and Craig White , who both came good at the same time to record their career-best Sunday scores . |
| 29 | It will be supplemented by the top 50 companies in terms of employment levels , and both tables will give those at the sharp end of the economy the chance to give their businesses a much higher profile . |
| 30 | I think I came unstuck at the last fence |