Example sentences of "[verb] [adv prt] at [det] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I sit down at this desk with a ledger . |
| 2 | Whatever desperate or mundane disappointments might lie ahead , as we gazed down at those phantoms from another age I felt that we had become travellers in time . |
| 3 | It was cold in the stadium and a leaden sky threatened to weep down at any moment on the small crowd assembled below . |
| 4 | where you 're just watching , helping , washing a few cups with somebody and , and then going on a course one or two days a week , and then you 're consider whether being took on and even if you 're not took on at that place at least you 've got something to say you 've done when you 're |
| 5 | On the one hand , the memorandum of association must qualify the company 's ability to provide surveying services , to the effect that such business must be carried on at all times in accordance with the Rules of Conduct for the time being of the RICS . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Like Miss Honey , she felt sure both ears were going to come off at any moment with all the weight that was on them . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Rival villages would line up at either end of the green to do this . |
| 10 | Drake at rest distinctive with shortish bill , chestnut head , buff crown , grey underparts and white line on wing ; in flight can be picked out at some distance by conspicuous white forewing . |
| 11 | Research can be carried out at all sorts of levels ; we could restrict ourselves simply to reading everything we can find and produce a piece of work which was wholly based on documentary sources and which did not involve us in attending any baptisms or asking anyone involved any questions . |
| 12 | A complementary body of work was carried out at this time by Flavell and his colleagues ( 1981 ) . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | His hands came down at either side of her , trapping her against the wall . |
| 17 | The encounter can break off at any stage in the process of escalation . |
| 18 | Alongside the formal structures , a network of informal relationships has grown up at all levels of the organization . |
| 19 | With the reversal of tidal currents deltas can be built up at both ends of the strait . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 ’ . |
| 22 | I 'm sure our successors will be looking back at those acquisitions as good ones ! |
| 23 | An RSPCA official said : ‘ This all seems very pointless because wasps die out at this time of year anyway . ’ |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | knows what is going on at all times within the department ; |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | ‘ If I had shown up at any exchange with that case , ’ said Quinn , ‘ they 'd have spotted it and killed the boy . ’ |
| 28 | and he said you know , he said they have n't been turning up at that chapel for them , when they 've preaching but you did n't crack on they knew anything about that but he just sort of said said no you know remain non-committal . |
| 29 | ‘ Although it was horrible to lose my titles , I look back at that fight as a great experience . ’ |
| 30 | It looked good for the cherry and whites , as they turned round at half time with an 8-0 lead . |