Example sentences of "[adv] [pron] [verb] at [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Naturally I jumped at the chance . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ It was worth doing , or so I thought at the time . |
| 3 | As I say , I could have destroyed you , or so I thought at the time , but you 've turned out to be a lot tougher than I had imagined … not vulnerable or confused at all . |
| 4 | She was a real beauty , or so I thought at the time . |
| 5 | But when he gets round to it , I think he 'll control them a bit more closely , now you can invest in that sort of fund quite safely , and although it wo n't give you any capital growth , because if they 're giving you ten percent income , obviously the capital growth 's going to be limited , but er if it 's the income that you 're after , not a bad thing to do , so I mean at the moment I may actually combine one income-type er P E P with one growth and income , where the , where the , perhaps the yield is about five percent . |
| 6 | I mean , fixed rates are dangerous because once you 've fixed , if interest rates then go up , you 've lost out on your er return and you ca n't get your money out anyway , so I mean at the moment it 's really erm er er very deeply into the cycle of low , of low interest rates . |
| 7 | Mark Higgins is just 10 and said : ‘ I saw boxing on the TV and loved it so I started at the gym twice a week . |
| 8 | So I stayed at the hostel for four weeks . |
| 9 | I have to warn Professor that there 's more than one party can play that game and if he thinks that it is sensible to run the affairs of this council on deliberate obstructionism on the basis that if you go on long enough you can wear people down then I think it 's unfortunate , it 's bad for this council bad for the people we serve , it does frankly nothing for local government and I ca n't blame central government if it loses patience So I recognise at the end of the day that erm Mr has had troubles with some of his erm er newcomers he obviously needs to re-establish some control over his group . |
| 10 | ‘ Well , you come , ’ said Sophia , ‘ and last Sunday I noticed the man who lives opposite you sitting at the back . ’ |
| 11 | Suddenly she felt at a loss . |
| 12 | Idly she picks at the flap , but it is still stuck down ; no one has opened it , no one has read the book , it is still intact . |
| 13 | For too long she gazed at the rain across the lake . |
| 14 | She did n't know how long she sat at the table , letting her coffee go cold . |
| 15 | Before long you arrive at the seaside town of Great Yarmouth . |
| 16 | so you know at a pinch you could probably run it like that and I do n't suppose anybody would notice the difference but , you know , just in terms of you know making things look attractive |
| 17 | So you look at the competency and most jobs have a a standard of performance do n't they ? |
| 18 | So you jumped at the chance , but it is , I think th th poverty wage in Europe is it not , not about a hundred and forty , a hundred and forty five pounds ? |
| 19 | If we take these views literally we arrive at the notion of style as an optional additive , and there is an obvious problem : how can we judge when the factor of style is absent ? |
| 20 | I stayed like that for the minute or so we waited at the Lochgair station platform , and did n't stir again — yawning convincingly for any other passengers who might be watching — until we were crossing the viaduct at Succothmore . |
| 21 | And so we stare at the pit in the earth and think we both do and do n't know what sculpture is ’ . |
| 22 | We were disappointed when Sheffield Wednesday turned down our bid for David Hirst so we looked at the situation again and decided that Cantona was the best . |
| 23 | So we look at the rounds as being twenty to thirty parcels a day give or take . |
| 24 | So we look at the age , look at the level of cover , health , you look healthy Shirley , are you in good health ? |
| 25 | Lastly we looked at the way in which the form of words is affected by the sender 's knowledge and idea of the receiver 's knowledge . |
| 26 | Together we shouted at the man , and told him we would tell this story all over London so that his name would be hated . |
| 27 | I 'm sure if people will perhaps they look at the church and think oh it 's out of touch but it is n't there are churches that are alive and have something very relevant to say today . |
| 28 | Together they gazed at the family portraits and Miss Hatherby pointed out the niceties of her forefathers ' dress — ‘ Folk would literally kill for shoe buckles of that quality . |
| 29 | Suddenly it rushed at the tree , leapt onto a low branch , and ran up the trunk . |
| 30 | Hardly a candidate for success you might think but you would be wrong to the tune of £120m because that 's how much it took at the US box-office . |