Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] at [adj] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I sit down at this desk with a ledger . |
| 2 | Jarvis managed to bowl only at half pace in the match against Hampshire at Basingstoke which petered out into a draw yesterday and he is still being troubled by a sore hamstring . |
| 3 | Thus tree rings are differentiated by the types , density and size of cell laid down at different times of the year ; varves by the gradation in particle size resulting from sedimentation of debris released into rivers and carried to lakes by the annual melt of glaciers ; and ice core layers by differences in dust content and acidity . |
| 4 | First we should ask whether it is necessary to popular participation that all should be gathered together at one time in one place . |
| 5 | Whatever desperate or mundane disappointments might lie ahead , as we gazed down at those phantoms from another age I felt that we had become travellers in time . |
| 6 | It was cold in the stadium and a leaden sky threatened to weep down at any moment on the small crowd assembled below . |
| 7 | A few checks will soon show which tags ( if any ) connect together at each position of the switch . |
| 8 | By autumn 1990 Chameleon had been installed successfully at 12 sites throughout Europe , but Intergraph felt that a third party with a ‘ wider skill set ’ was needed to exploit the system 's full potential . |
| 9 | where you 're just watching , helping , washing a few cups with somebody and , and then going on a course one or two days a week , and then you 're consider whether being took on and even if you 're not took on at that place at least you 've got something to say you 've done when you 're |
| 10 | On the one hand , the memorandum of association must qualify the company 's ability to provide surveying services , to the effect that such business must be carried on at all times in accordance with the Rules of Conduct for the time being of the RICS . |
| 11 | ONE allowance which looks almost certain to disappear altogether at some point in the not-too-distant future , judging from its treatment in the Budget , is the married couple 's allowance , or MCA . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | THE case must be made again for judges to stand down at 70 years of age . |
| 14 | Responding to SCOTVEC 's suggestions , however , the Prison Service has now created a support structure across institutions which ensures parity of standards and allows Instructors to come together at regular intervals for staff development sessions . |
| 15 | Mills were often built on an estuary where the water could be trapped upstream at high tide by sluice gates . |
| 16 | Each of several characters is followed through twenty-four hours and their lives touch only at certain points in the narrative . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | He was chased out over the Adriatic by fighters and was obliged to come down at Tatoi airport near Athens . |
| 19 | However , if one shift performs better ( and ‘ better ’ might refer to the quality or quantity — or both — of product that is made ) is it because it consists of more conscientious workers ; their conditions of working are better , or they have less distraction ; they are supervised more closely and the conveyor belt moves faster ; or their body clock enables them to work better at some times of the day than others ? |
| 20 | Er I 'm still trying to digest the er implications of er these various er flows but just to comment perhaps at this stage on the possibility or otherwise of er defining a er a district location . |
| 21 | By early March , oil had come ashore at various points along a strip of Saudi coastline stretching some 130 miles south of the Kuwaiti border . |
| 22 | Now a man may marry his stepmother or stepdaughter , or a woman her stepfather or stepson , provided that the younger person is aged at least 21 and has not at any time before reaching the age of 18 lived as a child of the family of the older person . |
| 23 | In that early ‘ moment ’ , rock 'n' roll was an important intervention though carried through at varying levels of conscious awareness . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | Surely at least one would have been caught short at some point during the operation . |
| 26 | Like Miss Honey , she felt sure both ears were going to come off at any moment with all the weight that was on them . |
| 27 | The Government can not be unaware that women are frightened to travel alone at night in isolated places , to wait in bus depots where no staff are present , or to be dropped off at bus-rail links at isolated railway stations where there is no one to guard them against possible danger . |
| 28 | I work at a distribution centre , where there is continuous shiftwork , which means that women and men are walking home at all hours of day and night often taking short-cuts across playing fields and waste land , totally unaware of the potential dangers . |
| 29 | It starts off at zero voltage at |
| 30 | The society is in gridlock and people snatch fitfully at such symbols before realising their inadequacy to the situation . |