Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] [adv] at [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , if one shift performs better ( and ‘ better ’ might refer to the quality or quantity — or both — of product that is made ) is it because it consists of more conscientious workers ; their conditions of working are better , or they have less distraction ; they are supervised more closely and the conveyor belt moves faster ; or their body clock enables them to work better at some times of the day than others ? |
| 2 | You know , I mean even at these diet clubs , oh well , you know do n't stop going out just eat what you , but if you go out and you 're eating sweets for you know , after your dinner |
| 3 | I do intend to er to attend inaugural meetings with each of the C P O s er with a view to looking I mean obviously at some stages you said to me that I would probably have to attend at short notice |
| 4 | I 'm sorry to report that I behaved rudely at this point . |
| 5 | This lady was typical of the many I came across at these events . |
| 6 | how I look just at this second or anything ! |
| 7 | And I recall that I laughed aloud at that stage and I believe ( the agent ) joined me in that . |
| 8 | So thank you very much indeed , for coming , for addressing us , and we look forward I think both at national level and as you suggest , at local level with ever more valuable and productive relationships with the private sector , together with the other partners which , er , whom we need , and thank you for leading us along this |
| 9 | At least I think so at any rate . |
| 10 | And we should look also I think perhaps at some quality factors er which might be written into the lease since there are some some things which I think we 're all less than satisfied with er you know customer complaints and the way they 're dealt with . |
| 11 | So I come there at this morning with cramp in my leg and I said I 've hardly had that , |
| 12 | And er I stayed there at that school until nineteen hundred and twelve . |
| 13 | In all four clustered contractions were reported , which may or may not be related to swallowing , which may be peristaltic in nature , or which develop simultaneously at different levels of the oesophagus . |
| 14 | There has , however , been very little research which looks directly at this issue and thus at this stage suggestions about the normal levels of memory performance or about the variables which may influence it remain largely speculative . |
| 15 | On our sail he pressure difference causes a driving force which acts roughly at right angles to the sail at its centre of effort . |
| 16 | Many traders , dockers and railwaymen came into these towns which grew rapidly at this time . |
| 17 | The Public Service Ideal does not assume , against all the evidence , that a free market will necessarily produce political access , variety , and debate ; it insists upon mechanisms which aim directly at these goals rather than relying upon their being achieved as the accidental by-products of mechanisms whose primary function is to achieve quite different goals such as commercial profitability or proprietorial self-indulgence . |
| 18 | To some extent , this is engendered by the timing of college examinations , which occur only at long intervals . |
| 19 | Contestants who have finished relax with a drink or cheer on those struggling up the last stretch , some of them grasping frantically at disintegrating bales of straw . |
| 20 | Over the farmhouse door is a date stone , 1712 , referring to Roger and Isabella Taylor , who lived there at that time . |
| 21 | Are you aware that you eat differently at certain times of the month and perhaps even crave sweet food when your period arrives ? |
| 22 | Safely out of the sight and sound of him , she gazed raptly at glossy brochures and debated the merits of sofa-beds over plain settees with all the enthusiasm Marie-Christine could have wished . |
| 23 | Shrugging , she gazed pointedly at two Wrens she had not met before . |
| 24 | Fifty fifty five sixty sixty five sixty five , seventy seventy five , eighty eighty pounds standing any more , it 's against you seated there at eighty pounds . |
| 25 | Did she stay here at that time ? |
| 26 | You know perfectly well that your husband 's mother lives at a considerable distance , in point of fact in a suburb of Sheffield , and that she has never at any time offered to look after your children . " |
| 27 | And when you walk aerobically at 4 miles an hour , you will burn around five times more calories than you would being sedentary . |
| 28 | You look again at that power cable . |
| 29 | If you look carefully at this level you 'll see two dark bands and in between the growth . |
| 30 | If you look carefully at this table , you will see that the combination of + and — values for each phoneme is different ; if two sounds were represented by exactly the same + 's and — 's , then by definition they could not be different phonemes . |