Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [adv prt] at [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 We are concerned in fact that er the western nations did n't rather deplore earlier er Hussein 's actions against his own people using chemical weapons , and we think it 's a shame for us that we 've only come in at this point , and we must come in carefully I think .
2 Had she herself perhaps dropped off at one point ?
3 A Sergeant with a crudely reconstructed pink blob of a nose — obviously bitten off at some stage in his professional or previous career — sat at a damascened bronze data-desk stained green with cupreous patina .
4 I think we 'd better switch off at this stage .
5 A photographic memory enabled him to avoid the obvious suspicions which Special Branch officers noting the proceedings obviously fell under at such meetings .
6 and we we 've always thought that , you know , to have a beat officer that was going around that could perhaps turn up at any time , would at least be some deterrent in so much that
7 The towns which thus sprung up at some railway centres are examples of the way in which individuality was lost , and lately the housing estate has spread a new uniformity even more widely over the country .
8 Most conductors just sit down at that point and , beyond making sure that the orchestra kept up with the stage , leave the music to its own devices .
9 But in this particular lesson the decision structure is something of a mirage , for as we have already pointed out at this stage the situation is not real enough for these children to be making anything but a superficial gesture — going through the motions of making a decision .
10 The technology has evolved from operations already carried out at coastal sites in Scotland in which lengths of oil and gas pipelines are made into bundles which are towed offshore at control depths for installation at oil and gasfields .
11 The single European market means health checks are no longer carried out at British ports .
12 where you 're just watching , helping , washing a few cups with somebody and , and then going on a course one or two days a week , and then you 're consider whether being took on and even if you 're not took on at that place at least you 've got something to say you 've done when you 're
13 She knew something , though not all , of his day 's programme : she 'd rung The Randolph at 10.45 p.m. and learned from the tour leader that her husband had not turned up at any point during the day to fulfil his commitments — and that in itself was quite out of character .
14 It is extremely important that you do not give up at this point and this is where training really begins .
15 Unfortunately many clinicians use this approach in an incorrect manner and do not follow up at regular intervals .
16 Among his worst crimes are not being married , not turning up at milking times and stealing food . ’
17 There is no reason anyway to reinvent the wheel , and we need to know initially what is already going on at different levels , in different forums , in different geographical areas , before engaging in a pilot project to network available training and encourage initiatives where there are gaps .
18 Election Call , the daily phone-in , has attracted audiences of more than a million , compared with between 300,000 and 700,000 who normally tune in at that time .
19 The general message was not to look back at past crimes but forward to a more worthwhile place in society .
20 I had peripherally helped out at anti-apartheid offices , even gone on CND Easter Marches when I first came over , but it was always on the sidelines .
21 At this stage Vigilant was ten miles away moving in at eleven knots while the three other cutters were twenty miles away converging at twenty knots .
22 The fog had not set in at that time , late afternoon , and the dockers were able to describe the men as respectable-looking young gents in peaked caps .
23 From the fact that a mental process does not appear in introspection one can not infer that it does not go on at non-conscious levels of the mind .
24 From the parking area above , you can easily walk down at either end of the crag , but it 's much more fun to follow the path leftwards and make a free 25 metres abseil through the blow-hole in the roof of the enormous cave of Baume Percée .
25 Since you are not connecting up at this stage , the rising main can be installed at a leisurely pace .
26 He said just go in at any time and we 'll pick it up .
27 But they were soon rounded up at nearby Maidenhead railway station .
28 Oh well no I wo n't do that I 'll just drive round at five mile an hour in front of ya .
29 One may well ask why , with such a generous offer , the chief executives of our generating companies are not queuing up at British Coal 's door .
30 She and her husband Elfed James , a miner , after renting a couple of rooms , soon ended up at 73 Caradoc Street , the top end , the scullery butting against a mountain leaking coal juice known as ‘ the Side ’ .
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