Example sentences of "[to-vb] [adv prt] at a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Like thoroughbred horses chafing at their bits before an important race , they are liable at any moment to sprint off at a hundred miles an hour in the wrong direction . |
| 2 | It is very distressing to find out at a later date that you have made a mistake which can cost you dearly . |
| 3 | The counsellor made it clear that if they wanted to come back at a later stage , they would be welcome . |
| 4 | Well we went into the Rifle Brigade Barracks at Winchester and used to work out at a big house outside of Winchester so we had to march out there and then at the time of Dunkirk , they were looking for places to put all the soldiers that they 'd brought and er , we were cleared out of Barnet , er out of Winchester Barracks and posted up to Nottingham and we worked in the factory , which was taken over by the Army then and erm , and then whilst there , I suppose that was about nineteen what , about nineteen fo coming up to nineteen forty two , they decided to have a recheck or rethink on medicals , so we were all subject to another medical and they put me back to A one and says , right we 're getting rid of all A one personnel out of the Pay Corp , you have a choice Royal Army Ordnance Corp or the Royal Artillery . |
| 5 | Now the deal looks likely to go through at a whopping $7.5 billion , about $110 a share . |
| 6 | As a patient bandaged from head to foot , Crawford had to deliver only one line , but he forgot it , lifted the bed sheet to look down at a prompt card and uttered the immortal words , ‘ Have you seen this , nurse ? ’ |
| 7 | And now , I I almost felt empty when she died , and I did n't have anybody to care for that really needed me all the time so I I , wanted to help out at a local dementia centre to try and make up for it and to pass on |
| 8 | The Labour government , however , argued that it would seem like an act of ‘ sabotage ’ if Britain entered the talks only to walk out at a later date . |
| 9 | ‘ The letters are the firms , the numbers are the prices in pence of a typical Alpha stock and the volumes they are prepared to deal in at a particular time . |
| 10 | If you want information to go out at a specific time , time it very carefully , and just bung it out , as it were , and , and reckon it 's there at that stage . |
| 11 | And tonight , her desperate impatience to go out at a particular hour … |
| 12 | Smaller animals tend to have higher metabolic rates , just as the engines of small cars tend to turn over at a higher rate than those of larger cars . |
| 13 | In the case of regression to earlier times in your present life , there will be enough evidence for you to check on at a later date , even if you are not actually aware of specific people or events . |
| 14 | Wait for a suitable moment and say : " That is a very interesting point you have raised , Mr R. , which we might wish to take up at a later meeting , but I really do n't think it helps our problem at the moment . " |
| 15 | But there always remains still one point of complaint by some members of the public , that is that the grass that 's cut does tend to blow about , but if the cutting is frequent , there 's less grass t to blow about at a given time . |
| 16 | Nor could I believe that it was the intention to bring in at a single stroke a charge to tax that would be calculated to interrupt the education and expectations of so many parents and children , for it is surely common knowledge that the provision of free or subsidised education for the children of those teaching in independent schools was part of their usual terms of employment and that the salaries paid would be wholly insufficient to meet a charge to tax based on the full fees of the school . |
| 17 | but we obviously have to cut off at a certain time to er get the accounts and audited in time . |