Example sentences of "[verb] [adv prt] at [adj] [noun sg] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | After taking a series of measurements I put a numbered ring on each bird 's leg so that if one came to grief and was picked up at some time in the future , its identity could be established . |
| 2 | He managed to blurt out at one stage in the proceedings : ‘ I did n't have any dollars , no gold , I do n't smoke and I earn 3,500 lei a month . ’ |
| 3 | The encounter can break off at any stage in the process of escalation . |
| 4 | An erratic Lebanese with a wife and family in Beirut and a Dutch mistress in Nicosia , he wore jeans and cowboy boots and drove around at high speed in a Chevy 4 × 4 with expired Texas licence plates . |
| 5 | A Sergeant with a crudely reconstructed pink blob of a nose — obviously bitten off at some stage in his professional or previous career — sat at a damascened bronze data-desk stained green with cupreous patina . |
| 6 | Another character turns up at this stage in the obese and blustering form of Judge Sir John Popham . |
| 7 | Outside of London , too , generally over the South , the West and the South-east , a decline in real wages set in at some point in the two decades centred on 1760 , as money wages fell behind rising prices . |
| 8 | ‘ I hope we can all meet up at some time in the future , ’ says Tyler , ‘ and have a tap-dance . ’ |
| 9 | What money did you have coming in at that time in fact ? |
| 10 | Well , apparently what 's happened there , I do know , because erm , one or two of the people who looked at it got involved , and whereas the property started out at some figure in the high hun hundred and fifty , hundred and eighty thousand , something like that . |
| 11 | When WORKING disappears from the screen , the palette will have been saved to the disk , ready for you to call up at any time in the future . |
| 12 | Guy 's mouth kicked up at one corner in a wryly amused smile . |
| 13 | And what sort of conditions were you working in at that time in the shipyards ? |
| 14 | Besides China in second place , India comes in at fifth place in the league , and Mexico and Brazil are also both bigger than Canada , currently the G7 's seventh man . |
| 15 | When the same thing is attempted deliberately , however , one turn is usually enough to send the model shooting off at great speed in some totally unexpected direction ! |
| 16 | But there are few women and even fewer men who do n't slip up at some point in their lives , in thought if not in deed . |