Example sentences of "[pron] [adv] at a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | Making a stock of suitable pictures and then sending them in at a steady trickle to the news editor throughout the year gives your children 's work a good chance of being chosen . |
2 | So he turned into Gambrinus 's and sat himself down at a small ironwork and marble table , and asked for some water . |
3 | The bus letting me off at a convenient corner in the city , I walked to the Sheraton and from a telephone there spoke to Mrs Baudelaire . |
4 | Remember that , as with tools for any kind of job , there are good tools and not-so-good tools and if you buy poor quality tools , they may let you down at a vital time . |
5 | It can then call you back at a specified number . |
6 | The human race is eating them up at a staggering rate . |
7 | The shares will have been borrowed and sold in the hope and expectation of buying them back at a lower price . |
8 | Rather they preferred to farm them out at a fixed rent , at leases which , in the fourteenth century , became progressively longer , and to enjoy the freedom to take up offices or to serve in the army . |
9 | In the early hours of 9th January , 1969 , Vigilant sighted the suspect vessel entering the River Swale near the Isle of Sheppey and followed her in at a safe distance . |
10 | For , after switching on power , it carries him along at a leisurely 10mph . |
11 | Yeah well that 's not so bad as long as you can get her down at a reasonable hour and get to sleep . |
12 | Blind panic sent her off at a stumbling run . |
13 | He had said hardly anything since we had picked him up at a draughty street corner where the Hanko road leaves Helsinki . |
14 | In The Desert Rats as the young English captain who put paid to that upstart Rommel by turning him back at a crucial moment in the whole North African Campaign ( set in Palm Springs ) , he was fine . |
15 | Exploiting the glueyness of spider silk , a hummingbird will prod it repeatedly at a selected spot until at last it sticks . |
16 | Instinctively anxious for its welfare ( he had not needed Jack 's admonition ) he drove it carefully at a modest pace , resisting the temptation to press hard upon the accelerator . |
17 | Chiswell Street is quiet and sedate nowadays but two hundred years ago it was the powerhouse for the Whitbread brewery which churned out Porter , the dark beer named after the London market porters who knocked it back at a fearsome rate early in the morning . |
18 | Anyway , he left what should have been my share to Matthew on condition that I was able to lease it back at a nominal rental . |
19 | And and there 's always the chance of getting it back at a later stage er but the whole market will have moved up a level . |
20 | It is far easier to buy some extra flowers or to pick an additional bunch from your garden , than to explain to someone that you would like to take some of your gift home with you in order to give it back to them again at a later date ! |
21 | Ward had his camera with him , and though he led me round at a breathless pace , talking all the time about the terrible religious cult of the Aztecs , he also took quite a few pictures , usually with myself or some other human in the foreground to give an indication of the scale of the place . |
22 | But again I held myself warily at a certain distance , not daring to make contact with him for fear of falling into the kind of trap Dana had prepared for me . |
23 | The boats picked us up at a pre-arranged rendezvous and we sped off again to do a foot patrol on the lough shore road . |