Example sentences of "[to-vb] [adv prt] at [adj] [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 case must be made again for judges to stand down at 70 years of age . |
| 3 | He was chased out over the Adriatic by fighters and was obliged to come down at Tatoi airport near Athens . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Like Miss Honey , she felt sure both ears were going to come off at any moment with all the weight that was on them . |
| 6 | He managed to blurt out at one stage in the proceedings : ‘ I did n't have any dollars , no gold , I do n't smoke and I earn 3,500 lei a month . ’ |
| 7 | She set her alarm clock to go off at hourly intervals throughout the night , but even before its first summons she was disturbed . |
| 8 | One example is the practice of engaging casual chambermaids , porters , waiters , bar and kitchen staff to cover the traditionally busy week or two around Christmas , or to help out at other times of the year when hotel occupancy rates exceed expected levels . |
| 9 | I know Mother used to help out at Low Fields in an attempt to ease Daddy 's burden a bit . |
| 10 | 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 . ’ |
| 11 | He was seen to bend down at two drains near his home . |
| 12 | Each approach has its limitations and these I shall seek to draw out at appropriate points in the text . |
| 13 | It is not easy to hit back at that sort of conversation . |
| 14 | ‘ League points are still important to us and nobody wants to miss out at this stage of the season . ’ |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 ! |
| 19 | They may have tried to get in at another address without success . |
| 20 | She remained well clinically to follow up at one year after onset of her colitic symptoms . |