Example sentences of "[verb] [adv prt] at [adj] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 31 | 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 . |
| 32 | Like Marshall in the previous Test , Paul Terry came in at Old Trafford in plaster to help a team-mate reach his century . |
| 33 | He loaded farmhands , ladders , rope and planks into a small lorry , and drove off at top speed towards Windmill Hill , Angela in the seat beside him . |
| 34 | One beltless man , in an official car , signalled to turn right into the car park , saw our photographer , abruptly changed his mind and drove off at high speed down the street . |
| 35 | As other police cars arrived at the scene the two men raced across the central reservation and drove off at high speed to be chased later by PC Whitehouse and WPC Larkin . |
| 36 | The encounter can break off at any stage in the process of escalation . |
| 37 | Alongside the formal structures , a network of informal relationships has grown up at all levels of the organization . |
| 38 | However , over a period of time , and partly encouraged by urban planning policies , commuter villages have grown up at greater distances from the cities . |
| 39 | The children line up at one end of the room with the organizer ( grandmother ) at the other . |
| 40 | The bears line up at one end of the room . |
| 41 | With the reversal of tidal currents deltas can be built up at both ends of the strait . |
| 42 | She knew something , though not all , of his day 's programme : she 'd rung The Randolph at 10.45 p.m. and learned from the tour leader that her husband had not turned up at any point during the day to fulfil his commitments — and that in itself was quite out of character . |
| 43 | Even when the weather is too bad for astronomical observing , Alcock still wakes up at two-hourly intervals during the night to make meteorological observations . |
| 44 | Looking back at those debates on how we could fill in the time on our hands , the novelist Herbert Gold reflected that the Fifties were a time of ‘ happy people with happy problems ’ . |
| 45 | I 'm sure our successors will be looking back at those acquisitions as good ones ! |
| 46 | An RSPCA official said : ‘ This all seems very pointless because wasps die out at this time of year anyway . ’ |
| 47 | This found insignificant levels of cyanide but ‘ very significant levels ’ of lead , averaging out at 5700 parts per million , a lead content of 0.57 per cent . |
| 48 | My father had another , everything was okay if you came out at any time after the thirty first of March , look all I 'm doing now is I was giving back , er taking my position as the company director , getting a salary off the rent in my farms and small holdings and my shares in shipping . |
| 49 | So if one came out at ten pence per |
| 50 | So instead of automatically going to the timber yard and buying new timber , how about looking around at potential sources of second-hand timber and giving the poor old environment a helping hand ? |
| 51 | 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 . |
| 52 | Inside , the headmaster 's room is partitioned off at one end of the building . |
| 53 | Our job was to act as navigational escort for about seventy Hurricanes which would be transported to the Med in ‘ Furious ’ and flown off at maximum range as reinforcements for Malta which was under heavy air attack . |
| 54 | She set her alarm clock to go off at hourly intervals throughout the night , but even before its first summons she was disturbed . |
| 55 | knows what is going on at all times within the department ; |
| 56 | going in at eighteen pounds for two . |
| 57 | It 's going in at ten pounds for it . |
| 58 | They also have a ‘ stand by ’ appointment scheme , where you can ring in at certain times at half an hour 's notice , where prices range from £4 to £7 . |
| 59 | Now Robson 's jeered off at Sporting Lisbon for losing a UEFA Cup tie . |
| 60 | 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 . |