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

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1 ( 2 ) Whereas it has been axiomatic throughout the working lifetimes of many now engaged in the administration of criminal justice that a police officer should never , save in exceptional circumstances , even address questions to a suspect after he has been charged , the Serious Fraud Office , which is by statute required to have regard to Code C , is asserting a contradictory power not only to ask questions at such a time , but also to penalise the applicant for any failure to reply .
2 We suppose , for instance , that what somebody says to us will be relevant to the occasion or to what has just been said , that people do not just issue utterances at random .
3 ( Lecturers at the Open University do not normally give lectures at all ; they produce correspondence material for their students , as well as working with BBC colleagues on the production of radio and television programmes . )
4 Oh ma our Michael 's up here throwing things at this my table c hi fi thing
5 She does n't much like machines at all , in fact .
6 Indeed it seems that girls very quickly replaced boys at this task : " Evidently [ the boys " ] tongues do not go so glibly as the girls , " as the STC was already saying as early as 1875 , " for in most of the offices where girls are employed , reading boys are now unknown . "
7 One of our members , my best mate Steve Frost , has a really brilliant speciality which means he never actually visits grounds at all .
8 The Conservative Party continued the Labour practice of remaining aloof , though never actively criticising attempts at European union as long as they did not threaten what Britain conceived to be its own vital interests .
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