Example sentences of "[to-vb] [adv prt] at [adj] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'm delighted that you 've been able to come along at such short notice . |
| 2 | I see , I mean it 's good to see really that er test match has been dom well almost dominated at the moment , by , by a slow bowler , it 's an ideal situation for in England , batsmen done their job , England are in command , got lots of runs to play with , but it 's definitely the left arm spinner who 's causing the , the greatest problem out there , he 's , he 's landing it in the right place , he likes variation in that over , confident enough looks very tempted , always very difficult to come in at first twenty minutes as a batsman , when you 've come in on a turning wicket , a very , very , difficult . |
| 3 | Having been thwarted in his aims , was he going to swoop down at some unsuspected moment and engage her in another haranguing match ? |
| 4 | The IRA claimed responsibility for the station attacks , blaming the Victoria casualties on " the cynical decision … not to evacuate railway stations " after a caller had warned 45 minutes earlier that bombs were to go off at all mainline stations . |
| 5 | ‘ I wonder , ’ Miriam Bernstein is saying to Jack , craning her head to look up at those same lights , ‘ if Howard and Felicity will be there … ’ |
| 6 | candidate and plan to go back at some uncertain time in the future . |
| 7 | Parties of twenty or thirty of them were liable to turn up at any Political gathering of which they disapproved , and their chant of " Left-is-right " , added to their readiness to fight anyone who tried to restore order , broke up meeting after meeting . |
| 8 | Unlike plants and animals we do not have to go to bed with the sun or to get up at each high tide ; our man-made environment is based on a 24-hour solar day of course , but it need not be timed to coincide with sunrise or sunset . |
| 9 | Tenants on estates are to be allowed to vote ( once ) on whether they wish to transfer to housing associations or private landlords , but they will have no right to transfer back at any future stage . |