Example sentences of "[noun] [adv prt] 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 | The coach , from London , costs under £40 but the trains , actually taking longer , weight in at a hefty £68 . |
| 4 | 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 . " |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Hilary , 48 , of Bath , Avon , won £8,000 compensation and her old job back at an industrial tribunal earlier this year , after a 15-month battle . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | The principle horrified hi-fi buffs when it was first announced , because it chopped the sound wave up at an ultrasonic rate and described each ‘ slice ’ as a binary number . |
| 10 | So we have got his name down at a few schools |
| 11 | The privileged sign in at a large book attached by a thin chain to a sort of lectern . |
| 12 | AIRDRIE Branch staff ended a night out at a local bowling alley with a delicious buffet . |
| 13 | Profits are made by lending money out at a higher rate of interest than that paid to depositors . |
| 14 | Take Magnus out at a different time , or take him somewhere else . |
| 15 | This has been done in a similar fashion to Martin 's approach , where the fret ends are chopped off square and then individually rounded , rather than by running a fret file down the sides of the neck and lopping all the ends off at a 45 degree angle . |
| 16 | There are as many people as turn up at an average Sunderland boilermakers branch meeting . |
| 17 | In today 's money , £10.3 billion works out at a staggering £34.3 billion . |
| 18 | We had to put the babies down at a certain time and leave them — it was horrible . |
| 19 | The problem was soon overcome by always having the camera a couple of inches or so above the fish , thus pointing the camera down at a small angle to the aquarium glass , while the adjustable flash head was directed straight ahead . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | Apart from the kick of waving your tits around at a caged man . |
| 22 | You know , I feel that is left , left angina , because I 've got to rip the brassiere off at a certain time of the day |