Example sentences of "[to-vb] [adv prt] at the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | No need for us all to go in at the deep end . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ The ambition is certainly not to go along at the existing size , growing by 5 per cent a year . |
| 4 | ‘ They 're going to come in at the far end . ’ |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | It is possible to jump in at the deep end , buy a farm , and teach yourself , learning by your mistakes . |
| 7 | 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 ? |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Ellie said nothing , deciding to stare down at the polished wood floor instead . |
| 13 | After a few moments he began walking , pausing once to look up at the grand facade of the Shelbourne . |
| 14 | Beyond the glass there was a sporadically placed ring of guards and dogs who seemed uncertain as to whether to stare back at the distorted press of faces at the glass panes , or whether to watch instead the spiral column of smoke and the flames that played at its heels . |
| 15 | He left the convent with Amsterdam , not turning to look back at the ancient pile . |
| 16 | It may be questioned whether this change achieves very much of a practical nature since ( a ) one still needs to look back at the common law of detinue to determine what constitutes the new form of conversion and ( b ) there still survive two torts of interference with property which have a considerable overlap with conversion , i.e . |
| 17 | ‘ I am afraid I took pains to look out at the other side so as not to see him , ’ she had said . |
| 18 | Before she undressed , Nicandra pulled back the window curtains , cold as glass in her hands , and stood between them to look out at the changed world . |
| 19 | We do have a choice as to whether to make the connection or not , but , as I have said , unless one is aware of it forming at the time , the bond is likely to build up at the instinctive level . |
| 20 | THE AGRICULTURAL Research Council is about to dive in at the deep end of commercial research by launching the Agricultural Genetics Company . |
| 21 | It 's really not hard at all ; you just have to dive in at the deep end . ’ |
| 22 | We also had to settle in at the new apartment , which I 'm very impressed by ( and only hope it 's a long let , but I 'm scatterbrained about such things and leave all that to Tod ) . |
| 23 | ( A teenager who forgets to call in at the appointed time may cause real distress ) . |
| 24 | My third bus dropped me two streets away from home , which gave me a chance to call in at the local florist 's and buy a twenty-quid bouquet on PKB 's Amex card . |
| 25 | The world 's most famous footballer declined to turn up at the Argentine team camp until late on Tuesday night , 48 hours later than most of his team-mates . |
| 26 | The world 's most famous footballer declined to turn up at the Argentine team camp until late on Tuesday night , 48 hours later than most of his team-mates . |
| 27 | I had been the last to get on at the previous station , so I was standing with my back wedged against the window . |
| 28 | He had flown in via Honolulu , but reportedly had not deigned to glance over at the still-visible wreckage of Pearl Harbor , just off the runway . |
| 29 | Fine cuts are more effective than heavy ones which tend to break out at the far corner . |
| 30 | The Los Angeles directorship , open since Earl A. Powell III agreed to take over at the National Gallery , now belongs to Michael Edward Shapiro , formerly chief curator in St Louis . |