Example sentences of "[to-vb] [adv prt] at [det] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 It was cold in the stadium and a leaden sky threatened to weep down at any moment on the small crowd assembled below .
2 The gap between the two , although only a few metres wide , is deep enough for my boat to pass through at any state of tide .
3 Like Miss Honey , she felt sure both ears were going to come off at any moment with all the weight that was on them .
4 But you were too young to realise just how much work you have to put in at that stage of building up a business , how much effort it takes to hold the whole thing together and stop it from collapsing around you . ’
5 It is not easy to hit back at that sort of conversation .
6 ‘ League points are still important to us and nobody wants to miss out at this stage of the season . ’
7 Make it absolutely clear , as I did , that you are prepared to fight back at any time of the day or night no matter how painful it may be ; and that you will keep on fighting until the day you finally beat them .
8 He expected Mr Major to turn up at another party on Thursday night — even sneering : ‘ This is the vomit party , tomorrow 's is the cream ’ — but the Premier was flying across the Atlantic for a high-profile visit to Canadian leader Brian Mulroney .
9 When WORKING disappears from the screen , the palette will have been saved to the disk , ready for you to call up at any time in the future .
10 For each day there is a diet sheet , more interesting key facts , and a weight and symptom chart for your to complete as you did for Stage I. It is vital that you keep this chart up to date : you will undoubtedly need to refer back at some point during the next few weeks , so the records are nothing short of vital !
11 They may have tried to get in at another address without success .
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