Example sentences of "[verb] [adv prt] at [adj] [noun sg] of " in BNC.

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1 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 .
2 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 .
3 Rival villages would line up at either end of the green to do this .
4 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 .
5 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 .
6 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 .
7 His hands came down at either side of her , trapping her against the wall .
8 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 .
9 The children line up at one end of the room with the organizer ( grandmother ) at the other .
10 The bears line up at one end of the room .
11 An RSPCA official said : ‘ This all seems very pointless because wasps die out at this time of year anyway . ’
12 Inside , the headmaster 's room is partitioned off at one end of the building .
13 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 .
14 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 .
15 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 ’ .
16 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 . ’
17 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 .
18 It is not easy to hit back at that sort of conversation .
19 ‘ League points are still important to us and nobody wants to miss out at this stage of the season . ’
20 ‘ I do n't remember it coming up at that meeting of Senate , ’ says Philip .
21 But in Heartbreak Hotel , which has a real deep echo , they had a speaker set up at one end of this long hallway and a microphone at the other end , and a sign on the door saying ‘ DO N'T OPEN THE DOOR WHEN THE RED LIGHT IS ON ’ .
22 And when you do finally get to bed , you ca n't lock yourself in and you may be woken up at any time of the night on any pretext .
23 Make it absolutely clear , as I did , that you are prepared to fight back at any time of the day or night no matter how painful it may be ; and that you will keep on fighting until the day you finally beat them .
24 ‘ You 'll meet him coming back at this time of day . ’
25 This example page , which is also set out at one second of runtime per line , shows that the original sync sound transfers continue without a break , but additional background sound ( voices ) is to be faded in at the beginning of shot 18 .
26 From the parking area above , you can easily walk down at either end of the crag , but it 's much more fun to follow the path leftwards and make a free 25 metres abseil through the blow-hole in the roof of the enormous cave of Baume Percée .
27 ‘ If you think I 'm going to let you turn out at this time of night you 've got another think coming .
28 SINEAD O'CONNOR 's record label Chrysalis has hit back at tabloid criticism of the sleeve of her current single ‘ Success Has Made A Failure Of Our Home ’ .
29 Many of the plants can be put in at any time of year , except for the dahlias .
30 And I ca n't think that you 'd come round at this time of day just for a chat . "
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