Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] [adv prt] at [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He looked down at Tom 's heavy brown ankle boots , his thick navy overcoat and the green corduroy cap with the tufts of white hair sticking out at either side . |
| 2 | As I have already noted , some kind of political change goes on at all times , produced by the succession of generations , the rise and fall of dynasties , competition among various social groups , economic and cultural developments , changing external circumstances , and more idiosyncratic factors , which can only be understood fully through detailed historical studies . |
| 3 | For a drainage level to come in at this depth would have required some 600 ft. of tunnelling and of course , since the art of blasting was not yet introduced , it would have been a protracted and costly operation . |
| 4 | This year , the funds have been allocated very much according to the UFC 's grading of the quality of research carried out at each university . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | So while his real eyes glanced round at another vault of blank green rock , his A eyes saw the first of the ghosts sliding out of the stone to say hi . |
| 7 | Ari looked up at this prompt . |
| 8 | This pattern has also had a stitch laddered down at each side which was then picked up , but as before , sometimes the dropped stitches can be left if they do not show . |
| 9 | Blagg is n't the type to go off at half cock — |
| 10 | Such an approach enables active work to go on at all times , including those when no change of placement is contemplated or during periods of waiting for a suitable placement to become available . |
| 11 | Indeed , in the pre-Conquest period , coins were produced at numerous mints to facilitate the transactions carried out at such centres . |
| 12 | There were n't that many rehearsal places around at that time which we could afford . |
| 13 | The speeches are short ( perhaps the school prize-giving metaphor breaks down at this point ) and the polished public school tones of the Synod have given way to nasal northern echoes . |
| 14 | To miss the odd target is acceptable , but not finds coming up at this rate and in such a confined area . |
| 15 | This was due to the hard work put in at all levels and in all parts of the country by the Wimpey Plant and Transport team . |
| 16 | In their headlong rush they naturally tend to get their corners knocked off at each bounce , so they end up as peculiarly smooth , rounded lumps , the smoothness being the result of mechanical abrasion . |
| 17 | Child hits out at all visitors who come to the house . |
| 18 | There are many other more elaborate braids and edgings which are great fun to knit if you keep your machine set up at this time of year , as it is a good time to play with new ideas and perhaps to knit enough to edge that beautiful Chanel-type jacket you are going to knit later , but the simple knitted binding or a simple rouleau takes a lot of beating and always loos fashionable , elegantly simple and stylish . |
| 19 | Patterned Fair Isle yoke pullovers came in at this time , then polo necks . |
| 20 | If they are then housed for the winter the immunity acquired by the end of the grazing season has waned by the following spring and yearlings turned out at that time are partially susceptible to reinfection and so contaminate the pasture with small numbers of eggs . |
| 21 | ‘ What 's the point of sending Officer Hassan flying off at half cock and upsetting a lot of people if it 's all to no purpose ? ’ |
| 22 | Children these days stay over at each other 's houses far more often than they did 20 years ago . |
| 23 | Another character turns up at this stage in the obese and blustering form of Judge Sir John Popham . |
| 24 | A product of the tail-end of the Northern Soul scene ( a mid-'70s underground dance phenomenon equivalent to electro/acid 's renegade '90s appeal ) , Tony and Gordon met up at that hotbed of creativity , Stockport Tech and settled in Sheffield . |
| 25 | A product of the tail-end of the Northern Soul scene ( a mid-'70s underground dance phenomenon equivalent to electro/acid 's renegade '90s appeal ) , Tony and Gordon met up at that hotbed of creativity , Stockport Tech and settled in Sheffield . |
| 26 | You do n't need any further underwriting to carry on at that level , but you can do . |
| 27 | If things carried on at this pace , she and Johnny would find themselves meeting every day . |
| 28 | By good fortune , the crew turned up at that moment . |
| 29 | In order to achieve the First Five-Year Plan , figures worked out at that moment estimated that the manpower necessary for attaining the production goals at 4.1 million workers and employees ( i.e. an increase of 1 million or 33% ) . |
| 30 | 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 . |