Example sentences of "[verb] [adv prt] at any [noun] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 It was cold in the stadium and a leaden sky threatened to weep down at any moment on the small crowd assembled below .
2 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 .
3 Like Miss Honey , she felt sure both ears were going to come off at any moment with all the weight that was on them .
4 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 .
5 The encounter can break off at any stage in the process of escalation .
6 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 .
7 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 .
8 ‘ If I had shown up at any exchange with that case , ’ said Quinn , ‘ they 'd have spotted it and killed the boy . ’
9 The system allows information to be ‘ filed ’ on floppy discs so that stored information can be called up at any time on the computer 's visual display unit .
10 And when you do finally get to bed , you ca n't lock yourself in and you may be woken up at any time of the night on any pretext .
11 Make it absolutely clear , as I did , that you are prepared to fight back at any time of the day or night no matter how painful it may be ; and that you will keep on fighting until the day you finally beat them .
12 Any information the client is interested in can be printed off at any stage during the search .
13 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 .
14 Many of the plants can be put in at any time of year , except for the dahlias .
15 Donations to the ‘ Around the Isles ’ charity fund for multiple sclerosis may be paid in at any branch of the Halifax Building Society and Bank of Scotland .
16 And he may turn up at any moment with a simple explanation , and wonder what we 've been worrying about . ’
17 Even after the pole struck Dennis on the head and he disappeared from sight , I remember thinking that he would pop up at any moment alongside the boat , like a coot .
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