Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] at the [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A neatly printed card , discreetly placed at the hem of the embroidery , told that the contents of the case had been donated by Jurgen Danziger , in 1933 . |
| 2 | Golden lads and lasses had just breakfasted on golden toast , a little blackened at the edge in some cases , spread with golden shred or golden syrup . |
| 3 | At night , while John 's impatient body sleeps , I listen to the waves loosely slapping at the side of the stilled ship . |
| 4 | ‘ State Department officials were unavailable for comment , ’ the New York Times reported , thereby hinting at the source of the leak , but if the story had been aired as a trial balloon , it failed to lift off . |
| 5 | The young man had ridden hard , and was stained and tired , and not a little frightened at the magnitude of the disaster he reported . |
| 6 | Rore properly stands at the head of this roll-call , above all for his madrigals which are both artistically and historically more important than his generally rather conservative Masses and motets . |
| 7 | At meetings of Bank Assistants throughout the country , in the past weeks , I have not met anyone who was other than bitterly disillusioned at the outcome of our visit to the Labour Court . |
| 8 | Gorbad is badly wounded at the Battle of Grunberg , but the battle is won and the Empire army flees back to Altdorf . |
| 9 | Letters regularly occur in certain combinations and positions with , for example , the letter Q always being followed by U , and a number of letters rarely appearing at the end of a word ( e.g. , J V ) . |
| 10 | And , as the Chancellor patiently explained at the beginning of his speech , the Budget deals with income , not expenditure , which is precisely why he wants to change it . |
| 11 | The two smaller ‘ outlier ’ setts would have been completely destroyed by the planned construction work , and so were completely excavated , while the third was only excavated at the end to be affected by the construction . |
| 12 | He seemed greatly cheered at the prospect of my arrival and held out his glass . |
| 13 | However , because ‘ newly-born ’ micelles can only arise at the expense of the preexisting ones ( there is a finite amount of water in the system that must be shared between all the micelles ) , the average radius of the micelles decreases . |
| 14 | Their grants would be reinstated from that date and they will obviously graduate at the end of the appropriate term . |
| 15 | Yet neither club commands very great support and even a Second Division Hartlepool or Darlington perhaps struggling at the foot of the division would be unlikely to attract more than 56,000 per game . |
| 16 | True , DF 118 's predilection for improvisation results in one yawn-inducing instrumental howler entitled ‘ Preacher Dub ’ ( foolishly placed at the start of the set ) , and they 're daft enough to return to clichéd ranting on '60 Seconds ’ ; but by the time proceedings close with ‘ Chainsaw ’ , they 're looking like people who could take on more established named and win hands down . |
| 17 | However , for all the splendours of the Monument Valley scenery and Fonda 's tight-lipped moral integrity , there is a downside to his crusade , which is only won at the cost of the lives of two of his brothers and involves the death of Doc Holliday ( Victor Mature ) , a noble outlaw who gets washed away by bullets and consumption along with the bad elements . |
| 18 | Because the choice of opting out is largely represented to parents , former pupils and the local community as a means of securing a better financial arrangement from the DES than has been possible with the local authority , it is sometimes argued that it is not ethos or education but funding which alone lies at the heart of the decision . |
| 19 | Now , being left-handed I 'm well used to the pitfalls : reading reviews of great-looking and top quality guitars only to find at the end of the review , ‘ No left-handers available ’ or , more niggling , ‘ 10% extra ’ . |
| 20 | On each of her periods at Hillmarden he had still clung to the faint hope that she was improving , only to find at the end of a week or a fortnight she had made no progress at all and that when Harry — good baby that he was — occasionally cried , this was enough to make Celia so distraught that Brian was forced to accept that it was better for all concerned if mother and baby remained parted . |
| 21 | At very least this habit will get us out of a rigid frame of mind which only looks at the problem in away determined by experience . |
| 22 | Athelstan sat looking at her in wonderment , constantly marvelling at the difference in women , contrasting this hag to the beauty of Lady Isabella . |
| 23 | Er and therefore it looks at erm the indirect impact of development erm and it 's it 's more sophisticated one might say than merely looking at the quality of the land . |
| 24 | Cost accounts are only prepared at the discretion of the directors of the company and are not a legal requirement . |
| 25 | The company is not required by law or accountants and auditors to provide management accounts and they are only prepared at the discretion of the company . |
| 26 | The full horror of Crocker 's position was only revealed at the end of 1984 . |
| 27 | In his sermons the Chaplain of Cadets had only hinted at the existence of terrible ultimate anti-Gods which stalked the warp , seeking to spill through into the cosmos to corrupt precious reality — the antithesis of all that the Emperor stood for ; forces which Marines should pray that they never encountered . |
| 28 | But did it necessarily grow at the expense of royal power ? |
| 29 | No have a look , you 're only looking at the beginning of it here try again |
| 30 | The book is also universally regarded as McGahern 's masterpiece , a view probably best expressed by playwright Tom Kilroy who described ‘ Amongst Women ’ as ‘ one of the most significant achievements in Irish fiction ’ and suggested that McGahern ‘ is obviously writing at the fullness of his power . ’ |