Example sentences of "[verb] [adv prt] at [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | ‘ Mind you , they never actually say when , and you did rather get dropped in at the deep end . |
| 32 | He was intended to come down at the wrong moment , disappear , do the same again , then go shooting through the roof when the mechanics of the wire go wrong . |
| 33 | He glances down at the final layer of glasses . |
| 34 | It is possible to jump in at the deep end , buy a farm , and teach yourself , learning by your mistakes . |
| 35 | If it is too drastic to jump in at the deep end with such a sweeping change , why not try it out in experimental matches , festival or night matches ? |
| 36 | And as Cram prepared to jump in at the deep end with a clash against Olympic 10,000m champion Khalid Skah in the BUPA International Festival of Running , race organiser Brendan Foster tipped his pal to rekindle memories of his glory days in his new event . |
| 37 | Not wanting to jump in at the deep end , I hired the school the day before and went with Karen , a friend who wanted to give her experienced but spooky horse an indoor schooling session . |
| 38 | The windows of the car were open and they hummed along at a steady cruising speed meeting very little traffic . |
| 39 | The steel tracks ground along at a steady rate , flattening glorious highly-finned autos , scattering pedestrians and levelling lampposts . |
| 40 | His marriage seemed like the Atlantic Ocean to her , something vast and unknowable which she could not attempt to bridge but only fly over at a terrible speed . |
| 41 | On and off street parking is available within easy walking distance of the museum and coach parties can be dropped off at the main entrance |
| 42 | Ample free parking is available adjacent to the Museum and coach parties can be dropped off at the main entrance |
| 43 | On and off street parking is available within easy walking distance of the museum and coach parties can be dropped off at the main entrance . |
| 44 | Caroline and the rest of the group , who were raising funds for the BBC 's annual children in Need appeal , stopped off at a Turkish restaurant during their tour of four restaurants in Aberdeen . |
| 45 | Very much easier to produce , these weeping standards consist simply of an easily struck rambler cutting with only the one single strongest shoot allowed to develop into a whip and stopped off at the desired height — or you can throw all convention to the winds and simply use a short pillar , fix an umbrella into position , and let a normal growing rambler fall over it . |
| 46 | Mrs Hollidaye 's dogs were left inside the car bobbing up at the rear window . |
| 47 | At the beginning of the thirties it must have seemed as if the world was opening up at an astonishing rate , but by the end of the decade it had closed to all but those on active military service . |
| 48 | Finally , worn out by her own thoughts and the strain of the last few hours , she drew up at a small country hotel and took a room there for the night . |
| 49 | On Necromunda , so it is said , you grow up at an early age . |
| 50 | Sit on a stool and massage one foot at a time by placing it on your thigh , knee bent up at a right angle . |
| 51 | The cop peered up at the towering fire escape for several seconds , then , satisfied it was deserted , he walked across the alley to the opposite wall . |
| 52 | 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 . |
| 53 | Noreen suddenly looked up at the Italian woman . |
| 54 | 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 . |
| 55 | The base was picked up at a second-hand store , and the crimson cotton shade came from Habitat . |
| 56 | I myself found at the entrance of one of them a small neatly-worked tomahawk , of an inch and a half in length , together with some slips of blue cotton rags , which the birds had doubtless picked up at a deserted encampment of the natives . ’ |
| 57 | Most of the cost will at first be picked up at the federal level , but the BMFT will gradually reduce its share of financial support over the eight years . |
| 58 | An emissary from London to St Petersburg was picked up at the imperial frontier and a large number of compromising letters fell into the hands of tsarist investigators . |
| 59 | The phone was picked up at the other end and Charles pressed his two p into the coinbox . |
| 60 | 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 . |