Example sentences of "[to-vb] [adv] at [art] [noun] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For light to work by at the period concerned , a miner had only a small coffee-pot shaped metal oil lamp with a wick protruding from the spout . |
| 2 | A working group under the chairmanship of Robin Beechey ( Chief Executive , East Sussex CC ) has been established to look closely at the effect 1992 will have on local government and organise an effective response . |
| 3 | Neither the neo-Nazi thugs nor the Republicans who threaten to do well at the polls next year point to anything like a return to the days of Hitler . |
| 4 | ‘ Now , I sat up in bed last night reading papers because I did n't want to turn up at a meeting unprepared . |
| 5 | But she usually heard him creep in , however late it was , and came scratching on the door just as he had got his trousers off , or just as he was scraping her uneaten steak-and-kidney pie into a polythene bag to throw away at the office next day . |