Example sentences of "[vb -s] [adv] [verb] [adv] at the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Clever Folly , winner of the A F Budge Chase at Cheltenham two years ago , has already scored twice at the track this season but needs fast conditions . |
| 2 | Korn/Ferry , whose world fee income achieved a fivefold increase between 1977 and 1986 , and is confidently expected to pass the $100m. mark by the 1990s , is sometimes criticised in the USA for being dominated by the central management , for its ‘ big factory ’ image where the seniors do the selling and the juniors do the work , and it has also suffered much at the pen of headhunting newshound Jim Kennedy , who produces Executive Recruiter News . |
| 3 | The walls have turned a gruesome red-brown from the urine which has also eaten away at the wooden structure of one of the portals . |
| 4 | The Commission has also looked closely at the potential anticompetitive effects of vertical integration . |
| 5 | The government has long made it clear that sterling would enter the Exchange Rate Mechanism during stage one of economic and monetary union which began in July ; it has now done so at the earliest appropriate time . |
| 6 | They were all sitting there staring at me and Monsieur de Levantiére said , ‘ This is Constance , who has kindly stepped in at the last moment . ’ |
| 7 | Graham has frequently hit out at the authorities for squeezing in too much football . |
| 8 | Critical also of the World Cup organisation , and referring to the umpiring in West Indies as ‘ disgraceful ’ , this agonising cricketer , who came from nowhere at 18 , spotted by Javed Miandad , seems greatly perturbed still at the £1000 fine extracted from him for swearing within the hearing of umpire Plews after he had banned him for bowling bouncers against Warwickshire . |
| 9 | I tell you , there 's one old cripple , ugly old bird — more chins than a Chinese telephone directory — sits there nodding away at the testcard when it 's on , does n't notice . |
| 10 | But a bowler who does not break down at the end of every other over and who can finish each season with an average around the 25 mark would be worth his weight in gold now . |
| 11 | But it is all too evident that there does not exist anywhere at the present time an active political movement which would be capable of initiating such a development , and if such a movement came into existence it would encounter immense difficulties . |
| 12 | Indeed , musicians argue amongst themselves as to preferred gauges in any one set , so the blame does not lie entirely at the manufacturers ' door . |
| 13 | ‘ A football club does not close down at the end of a playing season . |
| 14 | A stroke does not come suddenly at the age of 75 or 80 and finish life . |
| 15 | ‘ You mean if he does n't show up at the right time the opportunity wo n't occur again ? ’ |