Example sentences of "[verb] [adv prt] at a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 61 | For the past five years members of the Durham Concert Secretaries Federation have held fund-raising events on behalf of the Wareham Wood Memorial Fund for cancer relief and the latest cheque was handed over at a special ceremony at Osborne Social Club , Chester-le-Street . |
| 62 | She was sitting down by the gate , one hand on her neck , her head canted over at a fierce angle . |
| 63 | It is our intention to keep goods turning over at a livelier pace and it would therefore be appreciated if you would return any goods which you are unable to sell . |
| 64 | ‘ It hardly shows , ’ said Cadfael thoughtfully , going off at a surprising tangent . |
| 65 | When he turned off at a small junction taking a no-through road , she stopped and watched him out of sight . |
| 66 | Other party leaders , such as the former Communist Herbert Wehner , agreed change was needed , and in November 1959 their views triumphed in the Bad Godesberg programme , drawn up at a special party meeting . |
| 67 | The Mad one turned up at a recent New York gig of fabulous , trendy , baggy-type band with organ , THE CHARLATANS ( UK ) . |
| 68 | On 29 September 1955 , with just a few days of filming to go , Dean turned up at a gay party at Malibu which culminated in a bitchy foray between Dean and a former male lover who accused him of dating women purely for publicity . |
| 69 | ONLY four people turned up at a public meeting in Machynlleth to finalise arrangements for the town 's summer play scheme for local schoolchildren . |
| 70 | Repeat the read out at a lower level in the structure . |
| 71 | In some cases , care must be taken not to put ideas into a respondent 's head early in an interview lest these are reflected back at a later point . |
| 72 | And now , I I almost felt empty when she died , and I did n't have anybody to care for that really needed me all the time so I I , wanted to help out at a local dementia centre to try and make up for it and to pass on |
| 73 | You 're talking about er three thirty mil going out at a premium price , erm your one litre at an economy price and your two litre back at a premium price . |
| 74 | The Labour government , however , argued that it would seem like an act of ‘ sabotage ’ if Britain entered the talks only to walk out at a later date . |
| 75 | Keeping a car fully maintained at your local cost-a-lot garage can work out at a small fortune — and it never ends . |
| 76 | Of course , very often garments require a number of stitches that do not work out at a neat number of pattern repeats , so you do n't HAVE to much patterns at side seams . |
| 77 | Plates were handed out at a commemorative dinner by Health Authority Chairman Maurice Proctor . |
| 78 | Worse followed when 10,000 coupons were handed out at a big match at Hull — but 9,999 vanished . |
| 79 | And Gordon 's use of the melodramatic ( a vital dose of vanishingly scarce penicillin to treat a key character turns up at a crucial time ) is disappointing alongside the excellence of his writing elsewhere . |
| 80 | This contact may be by post , by telephone or by personal meetings ; the choice will depend very much on how important you are to a magazine and the magazine to you and thus how often you are likely to be working with this particular publication , how physically near you are to each other and indeed how well you get on at a social level . |
| 81 | Mr Michael Poynor , the adjudicator , commended director Harry Foy for an energetic production which kept the action moving along at a fast pace . |
| 82 | ‘ The letters are the firms , the numbers are the prices in pence of a typical Alpha stock and the volumes they are prepared to deal in at a particular time . |
| 83 | The groundswell in ‘ Chopin ’ is more urgent than usual , more truly agitato , the final march takes off at a cracking pace , and earlier Cortot , in common with Rachmaninov , includes ‘ Sphinxes ’ , a witty addition and an amusingly dour presence among the clowns and dreamers of Schumann 's masked ball . |
| 84 | Early on an August Saturday morning they set off at a great pace on the west side of the reservoir with the intention of following the ten mile bridleway right round the reservoir to a pub , where they planned to arrive two hours after opening time . |
| 85 | Set off at a good pace with the longest stride that is comfortable , letting your arms swing naturally in opposition to your feet . |
| 86 | Set off at a good pace , with the longest stride that is comfortable , your arms swinging naturally in opposition to your legs . |
| 87 | She extracted him determinedly and set him down on his feet , whereupon he wobbled perilously backwards and forwards , then set off at a tremendous pace across the courtyard , with his mother following , calling apologies back to Caroline as she disappeared from view . |
| 88 | Heads down , they set off at a fast trot which lasted until Loretta twisted her ankle . |
| 89 | It was better once I had rounded the corner and I set off at a brisk pace for the west . |
| 90 | We set off at a rattling rate , presumably to put some distance between us and the dozens of others still ponderously selecting items of clothing from their car boots , and I commenced my belligerence with a few barbed remarks about the pace-setting . |