Example sentences of "[adv] at a [noun] [unc] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 2 A noun qualified by the genitive , eg at a yard 's distance . |
| 2 | A Sinn Fein member , father of six Peter Gallagher , 44 , of Toomebridge , Co Antrim , was gunned down at a builder 's yard in Belfast , on Wednesday . |
| 3 | It 's also a good idea to have a spare machine readily to hand and regularly checked so that it can be wheeled in at a moment 's notice . |
| 4 | If you watch the start or the first few miles , you 'll see a mass of humanity moving along at a snail 's pace . |
| 5 | An astonished officer found him still clinging grimly to the controls as he trundled along at a snail 's pace . |
| 6 | Easing the car into first gear , she set off back along the road , a frown deepening on her face as she was forced to crawl along at a snail 's pace , unable to see more than a couple of feet ahead in the ever-thickening snow . |
| 7 | I stay a few feet behind , watching the three of them shuffle along at a ten-month-old 's pace . |
| 8 | She was two years older than him , and a thousand miles away at a girls ' school in Gloucestershire , and on the rare occasions when they met he hardly dared even speak to her ; but Richard was always in love with someone and his passions were all the more intense for being largely fantasy . |
| 9 | ‘ This type of thing eats away at a fighter 's heart — it 's like a cancer that has to be cut out . |
| 10 | His business contacts were being checked , but it seemed unlikely to Azadi that any of them would have been in a position to spirit the shipowner away at a moment 's notice . |
| 11 | They did n't give a damn for what we call reason , they were liable to act wickedly at a moment 's notice . |
| 12 | Norma , 55 , was unable to lie down for three months while her neck healed after a fall downstairs at a friend 's house . |
| 13 | Chick pecking again provides an example , but this time from pecking food on the ground , not at a parent 's bill . |
| 14 | Permanent arrears were normally written off at a bishop 's death , so the figures give some indication of the rate at which they accumulated . |
| 15 | Their aim is to give busy men and women the freedom , as far as their hair is concerned , to take off at a moment 's notice without having to spend hours in front of the mirror — these beliefs have certainly proved successful for Ralph and his team . |
| 16 | ‘ And why the devil we have to rush off at a moment 's notice , I do n't know … ’ |
| 17 | ‘ So as they can whip them off at a moment 's notice ! ’ he hissed . |
| 18 | It blossomed forth at a Managers ' meeting when ‘ somebody from Marketing ’ gave an in-depth talk on selling skills and creating opportunities to sell , using Branch data . |
| 19 | Few people , I discovered , looked directly at a waiter 's eyes , even when they were talking to him . |
| 20 | If lots of them signed up at a creditors ' meeting in London on May 27th , that could be decided quickly . |
| 21 | ‘ In this game you need people like Simon who can be called up at a moment 's notice . ’ |
| 22 | She checks daily that her changing bag is filled with essential and spare clothes and leaves it permanently packed in the hall ready to pick up at a moment 's notice so she 's never caught unprepared . |
| 23 | I was out at a friend 's house , we were opening a bottle of beer , the top had jammed , and I stuck it in the heel of the door to get the top off , and it exploded , I suppose it was too shaken up with everyone handling it . |
| 24 | If I was to give my life to this orchestra then I could not allow that someone throw me out at a moment 's notice . |
| 25 | A proportion of the flights on each main operating base maintain themselves at ‘ quick reaction alert ’ ( QRA ) status , ready to move out at a moment 's notice . |
| 26 | The late and sadly missed Roy Kinnear and Kenneth Williams would always help you out at a moment 's notice , and not only that , they 'd come up with a great performance . |
| 27 | However , the charm of the city raised her spirits and her first impressions after a night out at an artists ' ball were fresh and delightful : ‘ You ca n't walk home at dawn in Paris , even two hundred yards . |
| 28 | But as Dr Johannes Hallauer , Head of Communicable Diseases and Hygiene Section at the German Ministry for Health and a VHPB special adviser , pointed out , the degree of risk can not be calculated by looking solely at a person 's job title . |
| 29 | Both approaches are reflected in the report to annual parent meetings and both require a looking back at a school 's achievements in order that differences or improvements can be headlined . |
| 30 | Meanwhile , police last night hit back at a lawyer 's claim that they had mishandled the arrest of a 12-year-old boy who was released and eliminated from the inquiry last Wednesday . |