Example sentences of "[to-vb] [adv] at the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yes , I c I was fortunate to be able to carry on at the same place . |
| 2 | If they are to be more than mere training , then a process of informed reflection has to go on at the same time . |
| 3 | Eddie was staring at her with eyes as hard as granite but all she said was , ‘ You 'll have to go in at the front door . |
| 4 | No need for us all to go in at the deep end . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ The ambition is certainly not to go along at the existing size , growing by 5 per cent a year . |
| 6 | Three times through the winter , Cascade had been within days of being fully formed , only to fall down at the last minute . |
| 7 | This course is designed to produce graduates conversant with the techniques of physics and chemistry and armed with the necessary mathematical skill to work effectively at the chemical/physical interface . |
| 8 | He said , ‘ I 'm going to pull in at the next layby . |
| 9 | ‘ They 're going to come in at the far end . ’ |
| 10 | He was intended to come down at the wrong moment , disappear , do the same again , then go shooting through the roof when the mechanics of the wire go wrong . |
| 11 | It is possible to jump in at the deep end , buy a farm , and teach yourself , learning by your mistakes . |
| 12 | If it is too drastic to jump in at the deep end with such a sweeping change , why not try it out in experimental matches , festival or night matches ? |
| 13 | And as Cram prepared to jump in at the deep end with a clash against Olympic 10,000m champion Khalid Skah in the BUPA International Festival of Running , race organiser Brendan Foster tipped his pal to rekindle memories of his glory days in his new event . |
| 14 | Not wanting to jump in at the deep end , I hired the school the day before and went with Karen , a friend who wanted to give her experienced but spooky horse an indoor schooling session . |
| 15 | Carefully , slowly , Grace and her father tried to get the boat near the rock , but three times they had to pull away at the last minute . |
| 16 | Across the oceans , Sotheby 's continues to plug away at the Japanese market with its Print sale in Tokyo , now bolstered by a few nihonga ( Japanese-style ) paintings . |
| 17 | Inside , I was barely able to stand upright at the highest point , for I was head and shoulders taller than my sinister host ; and it did not escape my notice that the roof at its highest point was infested with cobwebs , in the corners of which sat large square spiders . |
| 18 | It hit it hit Ian Stringfellow last week and caused Nicky Platten now to pull out at the last minute last night . |
| 19 | I was confident I could wear her down eventually , but I certainly never expected her to come across at the first time of asking . |
| 20 | But the new financing structure collapsed under them and , as the cultural energy build up during the 1939–45 period became depleted , these filmmakers were only occasionally to work again at the same level of intensity . |
| 21 | Indeed in cases where such companies had a vital stake , as with the British South Africa Union Minière in Zaire they were seen to behave badly at the very point at which their host countries became independent . |
| 22 | After all , he had managed to dismantle the magical aspects of my eidesis and now he began to chew away at the very grist of what he termed my ‘ delusionary apparatus ’ . |
| 23 | She smiled ruefully , then continued to wave frantically at the approaching train . |
| 24 | Linearity appeared to fall off at the -90dB level , not of much concern , and there was a small amount of high frequency hash in the output at -78dB . |
| 25 | Sarah Bamfield seized on a loose ball and swung the ball across the D for Lucy Youngs to poke home at the far post . |
| 26 | Perhaps it is in this context that Evangelicals and Catholics have to look afresh at the troublesome problem of speaking of the sacrament as a ‘ sacrifice ’ . |
| 27 | Moving back to the bridge , she halted for a moment to stare down at the sluggish water , and the wavering reflection thrown back at her made her feel like weeping forever . |
| 28 | Ellie said nothing , deciding to stare down at the polished wood floor instead . |
| 29 | The total investment need is there from the beginning but it is split into two phases and in our thinking it is only too easy to look only at the first phase because this almost returns the organisation to profitability , and to ignore the second phase which may be essential . |
| 30 | In this way , the mind is taught and instructed to look inwardly at the spiritual nature [ of things ] , towards the secret power that is hidden in everything and works in everything in an incomprehensible way . |