Example sentences of "[verb] [vb pp] [adv prt] at [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | so of course that would 've come out at a later stage , yeah , you know there 's a lot of business miles involved in flying to all these er places . |
| 2 | Their union has not only survived the rigours of a decade , but has come out at the other end stronger than ever . |
| 3 | But Darlington Tory councillor Peter Jones has hit out at the Labour group , which he said was alerted of problems seven years ago . |
| 4 | The Aussie singer , who has been accused of copying Madonna herself , has herself been accused of copying Madonna , has hit out at the American superstar . |
| 5 | Moreover once inflation has levelled out at an acceptable rate , aggregate demand can be expanded once again with the result that the actual unemployment rate will fall back towards NAIRU . |
| 6 | He 'd looked up at the great thing dropping out of the sky right towards his head , and had flung himself down , expecting at any second to become just a little greasy mark in a great big hole . |
| 7 | For their tickets , and I said at the area council if they had turned up like they turned up to pay them thirty pound and eight pound , if they 'd turned up at the same time with a petition form what a difference it would |
| 8 | Lorton wondered if he 'd chickened out at the last moment . |
| 9 | Instead of liking the look of the water , wading in carefully and finding it was wonderful , she 'd tumbled in at the deep end . |
| 10 | Well you 've got another two or three hours on the journey , but having said tha well if you get picked up at the other end it 's not too bad . |
| 11 | In the classical theory of general relativity one can not predict how the universe would have begun because all the known laws of science would have broken down at the big bang singularity . |
| 12 | To heighten concern about the Convention , Broken Promise could not have come out at a better time . |
| 13 | They said that a state of infinite density might occur only if the galaxies were moving directly toward or away from each other ; only then would they all have met up at a single point in the past . |
| 14 | The government could have clamped down at an early stage with tough deflationary policies . |
| 15 | ‘ Mind you , they never actually say when , and you did rather get dropped in at the deep end . |
| 16 | She was glad she had the stone , when he came into the byre ; she was waiting for him as he had asked her to , she had made her way across the orchard in the fresh blue morning and let herself in through the wooden door by lifting it off its hinges , since the bolt had rusted fast long ago , and she had looked up at the full moon of the sky in the chimney hole at the centre of the round shelter 's roof , and with her stone which was sharp as a shearing knife with a bright , honed blade the marks of the whetstone were still visible in pale striations like scouring tracks — she scraped her name into one of the stones on the interior , as many others had done before her , in tall shapely capitals , the only letters she knew . |
| 17 | If it had come out at the same time , it would have been submerged , and if it had come out afterwards it would have been seen as merely reactive . |
| 18 | It had also introduced postgraduate diplomas and higher doctorates to supplement the undergraduate , masters and doctoral degrees it had decided on at an early stage . |
| 19 | It was a torture which was part of the school 's underground mythology , but something he assumed had died out at the same time as the belief that bullying was inevitable , harmless and good for the victim 's character . |
| 20 | Shiona had smiled back at the fair-haired youth who had so recently become her brother . |
| 21 | They said no more then , for the coach had pulled up at the main door . |
| 22 | While he and Blanche hummed up in the lift to the conference room , Dexter told the superintendent what he had found out at the dry cleaner 's . |
| 23 | The deflation of aggregate demand and the rise in unemployment did appear to reduce the rate of inflation , but once unemployment had settled down at a higher level , the rate of inflation ceased to fall . |
| 24 | Charles kept remembering what Micky Banks had gone through at the same stage , and often , like his predecessor , was ready to throw in the towel and say it was impossible . |
| 25 | I then had dinner with Trevor Clay , who had taken over at the Royal College of Nursing , and he also agreed that such an offer would be enough to bring them back into negotiation . |
| 26 | He had put up at a cheap pension , the Hospedaje Lisboa ( ‘ Camas , Comidas ’ — Rooms , Meals ) , where he had an even smaller room than the one assigned to me at the Colegio . |
| 27 | ‘ I got held up at the last minute . ’ |
| 28 | SCIENCE lessons have perked up at a junior school since youngsters discovered the secrets of a special science activities box . |