Example sentences of "[conj] [verb] [pron] at [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If a fond mum sends you back after a weekend at home with your favourite fruit cake , do you keep it in a tin under the bed and eat it secretly , or demolish it at one swoop by sharing it with others ? |
| 2 | It can also be used to establish the propensity of different ACORN categories to buy different products or services , or to use them at particular rates ; and to analyse their exposure and reaction to different forms of promotional and advertising media . |
| 3 | She knew him to be Alexander Rokovssky , the dark tool of autocratic monarchs and a fanatical servant of Tsarism , a man who could slit another 's throat or shoot him at point-blank range without any change of expression . |
| 4 | There must be no provision for the entity to keep the asset on repayment of the finance , or to reacquire it at any time . |
| 5 | A more fundamental difficulty with the new examination is contained in the very principle that made it at first sight so attractive — its applicability to the full ability range . |
| 6 | Er that concludes ours at this moment Mr . |
| 7 | Er Trading Standards Officers have been helping the police have made a large number of visits to sales in recent months targetting those where we know or suspect there will be concentration of counterfeiter goods and these stolen items we 've been taking and seizing items , we 've been making inspections and er we will also be distributing some leaflets to try and advise people of some of the risks and dangers that face them at this sort of event . |
| 8 | Rather than commit you at this stage to the costs of detailed accounting , due diligence and contract drafting , which may subsequently prove to be abortive , MAS would intend performing a short key features review devised to highlight potential deal breaking points and other inevitably contentious issues ( such as possible earn-out terms ) which will need to be resolved with the vendors prior to proceeding . |
| 9 | The situation is best illustrated by a letter that reached me at this time from Mrs Mugabe : There was no way in which I could reply to the letter except by a futile expression of sympathy . |
| 10 | PostScript sacrificed performance for flexibility and , as a result , is capable of taking the same original information and producing it at any output resolution ; 72 , 300 , 1270 or 2540dpi . |
| 11 | Males have brightly striped fringes and flash them at each other when displaying during combat . |
| 12 | Then take two cuts of the cards off the bottom of the pack and place them at each end before placing the rest in the middle . |
| 13 | But if you are still in the UK for the four days from July 15–18 , put a note in your dairy to come and see us at this year 's Art in Action at Waterperry House , Wheatley in Oxfordshire . |
| 14 | Giotto will fly to Halley 's comet in 1986 , and photograph it at close quarters . |
| 15 | He was concerned that preachers of the Word should also take it into homes and minister it at closer quarters . |
| 16 | You can purchase your first FREEDOM TICKET and renew it at any Post Office in Oxford or at The Broadway , Banbury Road or Mill Street offices in Kidlington itself . |
| 17 | The Capitulary of Thionville in 805 , for instance , forbids usury , the kind of usury which involved buying cheap corn in quantity and selling it at excessive profit in times of scarcity . |
| 18 | Sarah would not take a flying run , but with John and Nora running and holding her at each side , just catching the fringes of the grass , she had her stately share , too . |
| 19 | Registry staff must be able to process information without introducing delays , whether it is receiving data from a student and subsequently providing an updated record for that student or taking a request from a lecturer for a list and providing it at short notice or processing an offer made by an admissions tutor so that the candidate hears from PCAS as quickly as possible . |
| 20 | Some deaths , injuries and serious damage have been caused by young people who take other people 's cars and drive them at high speed . |
| 21 | And even if you 're parking it in your driveway or close to your home , lock and secure it at all times . |
| 22 | Ask the Lord to bless and encourage them at this time and that they would not suffer from ill health . |
| 23 | The name of the game is to hit the guy as hard as you can and to protect yourself at all times . |
| 24 | They then began to play a game which involved tearing pieces off the aircraft and hurtling them at each other . |
| 25 | As a critical or psychological judgement it is meaningless , since it is difficult to see how a conductor can reveal private soul-searching whilst recording the overture to Die Fledermaus or Beethoven 's Seventh Symphony , short , that is , of transposing each piece into the minor and playing it at half speed . |
| 26 | Later Lisa was to wonder at the power of the sensations that swept in on her and possessed her at that moment . |
| 27 | He is a keen observer of political life and quizzed me at great length about the impending British general election . |
| 28 | and repaying it at five percent interest or whatever is a rate of |
| 29 | I 'm sure they pick things up and throw them at each other . |
| 30 | You can then pull the headboard out and rest it at any angle on the mattress for reading , watching TV or enjoying breakfast in comfort . |