Example sentences of "[pron] [adv prt] at [art] [adj] [noun sg] " 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 ‘ We shall know whether they sink or swim by putting them in at the deep end , and I have every confidence that they will all do well .
3 We realise that chucking them in at the deep end is not satisfactory .
4 Or drop them in at the Northern Echo offices in Northallerton and Darlington .
5 With clenched teeth , Ace pulled the pins on the grenades , paused for a couple of heartbeats , and hurled them over at the German position .
6 So he turned into Gambrinus 's and sat himself down at a small ironwork and marble table , and asked for some water .
7 I do n't even know whether they let them off at the head office .
8 Exasperated Pakistani officials have threatened to round up the Arabs and drop them off at the American embassy .
9 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 .
10 ‘ I want you to drop me off at the nearest hotel , ’ she told him in a strained voice .
11 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 .
12 Or walk out and let you down at the last minute . ’
13 Disadvantages : She may not have had much experience looking after young children ; she may let you down at the last minute if something else crops up — like a boyfriend .
14 It fills you up okay but runs you down at the same time .
15 The chappie who let you in at the front door was Norman he 's form Salford East .
16 ‘ I 'm afraid I 've plunged you in at the deep end .
17 ‘ For dropping you in at the deep end , before you 'd had a chance to get your bearings … ’
18 I 'll drop you off at the first station we come to . ’
19 So , will you join me , or should I drop you off at the nearest station ? ’
20 As I have to come back to the airport to pick up a member of tonight 's convention it will be easy to drop you off at the same time . ’
21 I 'll drop you off at the Jolly Farmer , then you can walk up the hill to get to the school .
22 Shall I pick you up at the same time as I did this morning ? ’
23 It can then call you back at a specified number .
24 Are you back at the old business with Klein ? ’
25 If your marriage is on the rocks , the thing to do is throw a wobbly on a motorway at night so that your husband will put you out at the next lay-by .
26 I was getting DF118s — painkillers but they knock you out at the same time .
27 The human race is eating them up at a staggering rate .
28 So we 've planted a seed and we either get introductions there and then or we 've paved the way to the pick them up at the second appointment .
29 John Taub and others at the University of California School of Medicine required subjects to sleep an hour or more longer than usual , by putting them to bed at either II p.m. or I a.m. , but getting them up at the same time — 9 a.m .
30 So I 'll pick them up at the next brief .
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