Example sentences of "[noun] [adv] at a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Liberate , pacemaker for Alphabatim , took the field along at a strong gallop as far as the straight , a good half mile from home , where he fell back and allowed Commanche Run to take up the running . |
| 2 | put a bid in at a certain price . |
| 3 | And she suspected too , without being told , that to question a rock star like Adams merely at a trivial level was potentially more fruitful than to elicit his opinions on , say , constitutional reform or Schopenhauer . |
| 4 | The coach , from London , costs under £40 but the trains , actually taking longer , weight in at a hefty £68 . |
| 5 | When I was about twelve she told me how she 'd " flung " a sixpenny piece back at a titled woman who 'd given it her as a tip : " If you ca n't afford any more than that Madam , I suggest you keep it . " |
| 6 | They were mesmerized by him and he drove the comedic tension forward at a great rate . ’ |
| 7 | The referential function gains its prominence only at a later stage , and the metalinguistic function also comes later ; these are the functions on which a considerable amount of attention is lavished at school . |
| 8 | But I took on the idea of transcendence only at a personal level . |
| 9 | THE Prince and Princess of Wales ended their tour of South Korea yesterday at a traditional honeymoon spot keeping their distance and looking miserable . |
| 10 | THE owner of an ailing hotel battled it out with planners yesterday at a public inquiry . |
| 11 | Believe me , it is not until you are standing with a bucket of icy water in one hand and a wet sponge in the other , looking twelve feet up at a grubby Beaver , that you start to appreciate just what a big aeroplane it is . |
| 12 | Finally , even if all the factors mentioned so far are not influencing the cat , it may still turn its nose up at a particular dish of food . |
| 13 | Once you can play each lick perfectly at a slow tempo , use your metronome to push the tempo up towards the target speed , suggested in brackets above each example . |
| 14 | The therapeutic use of regression , which I am concerned with here , usually relates to a subject 's current life , and takes place purely at a psychological level . |
| 15 | Japan 's annual Unix Fair was held a couple of weeks ago at a new venue in Yokohama , attracting 89 exhibitors and 37,000 visitors . |
| 16 | The enhanced results which can be obtained using a combined therapeutic regime are well illustrated by a study which we had the opportunity of carrying out about three years ago at a residential health establishment in Crieff . |
| 17 | They accused him of giving information to the police about a robbery a few weeks earlier at a local company . |
| 18 | Differentiation ( Fig. 50 ) is readily made between the two on gross examination or with a hand lens , when the cervical alae of T. cati are seen to have an arrow-head form , with the posterior margins almost at a right angle to the body , whereas those of Toxascaris taper gradually into the body . |
| 19 | Findlay and Francis were both indicted ( with others ) with conspiracy to rob and also with substantive counts of robbery , including two robberies five weeks apart at a sub-post office in Hainault . |
| 20 | Forget it ’ the A A said , ‘ forget it ’ the police said , ‘ forget it ’ , everybody in the town said ‘ forget it , it 's hard enough to walk up ’ and we took the truck up at a bloody run . |
| 21 | A look later at a partial list of the Green Party 's candidates for the 1989 British Euro-elections confirmed the general impression : it was full of teachers , lecturers , organic small-holders , social workers and adult students , with here and there the stray doctor , engineer and journalist . |
| 22 | So we have got his name down at a few schools |
| 23 | The privileged sign in at a large book attached by a thin chain to a sort of lectern . |
| 24 | In the same vein , Winter explains that ‘ [ i ] fconsumers prefer yellow widgets to blue ones or widgets with safety features to plain ones , and if they will pay the true cost of such improvements , the monopolist ignores their tastes only at a financial cost . |
| 25 | Swinging the ball away at a lively pace , he had Hough caught at slip by Paul Parker , then Ebrahim EssopAdam slashed his first ball straight to John Glendenen at gully . |
| 26 | There were until about 20 years ago , mosaic pavements from Roman times displayed in their original positions where they had been discovered during field work , together with one unearthed some little distance away at a later excavation . |
| 27 | The two defendants , Matthew Loveridge , who 's 19 , and Frank Smith , who 's 25 , were arrested here , about 30 miles from the scene of an alleged robbery the day before at a sub-post office in Berkshire . |
| 28 | AIRDRIE Branch staff ended a night out at a local bowling alley with a delicious buffet . |
| 29 | You should try the request again at a later time . |
| 30 | You should try the request again at a later time . |