Example sentences of "[adj] [to-vb] [adv] at [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 It would be ironic to pick away at the mortar for a few decades only to break through into the next-door cell .
2 He was on good terms with Marcus , content to know both that they would talk again , and that it was impossible to do so at the moment .
3 Mr Rodger Bell QC , for Mr Bewick , suggested that his client had a ‘ bee in his bonnet ’ about surgeons being able to work anywhere at a drop of a hat .
4 In this it surpassed all that Lanfranc had been able to achieve even at the height of his influence in 1072 .
5 Provided he could use the motion , he might be able to rock away at the melancholy and eventually shift it off its fierce sticking point .
6 I suppose that the average Briton , although not naturally vindictive and revengeful , would be inclined to smile broadly at the idea of 3000 Inland
7 In order to answer this last question it is necessary to look briefly at the type of anthropological work available to Marx and Engels at the time they were writing .
8 It is necessary to look continuously at the portfolio of one 's businesses .
9 It therefore seems to be necessary to look carefully at the contract terms before deciding whether or not there is redundancy .
10 It will be necessary to look closely at the relief sought , and the grounds advanced in support , but it is convenient first to establish the background of statutory and common law to the matters now in issue .
11 He left the previous evening to drive to Ipswich , where his own term is due to begin today at the University of Suffolk .
12 ‘ I 'm scared to go there at the moment .
13 His oarsmen held his great galley back off the beach , ready to leave again at a word as Eachuinn Odhar leaped thigh-deep to surge ashore , energetic and agile almost as in his youth , and much more dangerous .
14 They did n't give a damn for what we call reason , they were liable to act wickedly at a moment 's notice .
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