Example sentences of "at every [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She touched the wrist of the suit 's left arm with the index finger of the right claw , and felt the suit vibrate as small orientation jets burst into life at every joint . |
| 2 | The plant spreads rapidly by " runners " , the underground root-like stems , and develops shoots at every joint . |
| 3 | ‘ I look sideways these days when I see the umpires waiting to go onto the ground and then looking at every blade of grass . |
| 4 | Perhaps it 's something to do with my desire for Jack which I 'm checking at every second . |
| 5 | At every word , |
| 6 | And because if you 're just looking at every word separately everything lo you 've got to learn so many things have n't you if you can pot the patterns and then you can start having a a guess at what it might be and getting it right most of the time and then you gradually learn them as you go along . |
| 7 | He told it well , with a wealth of detail , for he had been there , and was proud ; and at every word of praise for his Northumbrian lords he rubbed salt into sore and festering wounds . |
| 8 | I get that at every press conference . |
| 9 | Sometimes called ‘ Sun Trap ’ houses , the idea behind them was to catch the sun at every angle . |
| 10 | At every opening in the trees , across every glade , and beside every hidden pool , Marian looked to see that glint of white she had seen from the Ridgery ; it was never far from her mind . |
| 11 | These systems have to be designed to flood the whole warehouse to eaves level at every incident of fire and would cause considerable water damage to packaging and some commodities . |
| 12 | In Japan , the custom of taking their shoes off everywhere , sitting on the floor to eat , and having an elaborate tea ceremony at every port of call , finally cracked her up . |
| 13 | The good thing about cruises is that you always have the ship 's staff to help you if you have a problem and there are always guided tours laid on at every port of call . |
| 14 | Other practices that once held up the flow of the dance were the continual closing in 5th position before a new step and the continual moving of the arms through 1st position at every change of weight or during a ports de bras . |
| 15 | The gears complained with a loud grind at every change , and there was a strong smell of petrol . |
| 16 | There was death at every window ; |
| 17 | Add to that a predilection to falling off buses because you think you see Him on every corner , in every crowd , at every window , and the inevitability of actually seeing Him in the off-licence when you were n't expecting to , and feeling your entire stomach lurch forward involuntarily like waking from a dream of falling . |
| 18 | In the manufacturing counties you see the wheel going almost at every door , the wool and the yarn hanging up at every window , the looms , the winders , the combers , the carders , the dyers , the dressers , all busy ; and the very children as well as the women constantly employed . |
| 19 | In the manufacturing counties you see the wheel going at almost every door , the wool and the yarn hanging up at every window , the looms , the winders , the combers , the carders , the dyers , the dressers , all busy ; and the very children , as well as women constantly employed . |
| 20 | There was death at every window , and hell on one dark window . |
| 21 | It 's gone into us , and we 've done it 's here that 's looked at it properly , and walked through the trees and even looked at every marking in the trees that were gon na come down . |
| 22 | In practice , many doctors are too busy to take a long hard look at every patient . |
| 23 | He had slipped into a rather alarming habit lately of looking at every girl or woman he encountered to see how big her bust was . |
| 24 | The traveller who rides on a local bus can learn a lot : in the mountains of Greece everyone clings on for dear life and makes the sign of the cross at every bend in the road ; in the Thar Desert , Rajasthan , a sense of humour is essential , especially when the giggling driver moves the sheltering bus to reveal squatting passengers answering the call of nature , and in South America it helps if you do n't mind sitting next to a chicken or sharing the floor with a goat . |
| 25 | Unfortunately , this had the effect of making it also extremely mobile during transport , and it was sliding about at every bend in the road . |
| 26 | I grabbed at every invitation , no matter how uninteresting , that would occupy my evenings , and if I had one free I would fill it myself by visiting friends or , in the last resort , going to a movie alone . |
| 27 | He refused to talk about his businesswoman wife who often followed his rounds wearing bright , tight dresses and cheering him on at every green . |
| 28 | Yeats recalls receiving a letter from Lionel Johnson ‘ denouncing Wilde with great bitterness ’ ; Johnson believed that Wilde got a ‘ ‘ sense of triumph and power , at every dinner-table he dominated , from the knowledge that he was guilty of that sin which , more than any other possible to man , would turn all those people against him if they but knew'' ’ ( Yeats , Autobiographies , 285 ) . |
| 29 | ( By the ‘ original pattern ’ I mean the pattern as designed for single bed knitting , not as punched out for double jacquard ; the double jacquard card is of course moving on at every row . ) |
| 30 | As a matter of fact , when I 'm talking about , let me see er fifty years ago , there was one up at every back yard , that 's the truth . |