Example sentences of "[vb -s] [adv] [verb] at a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then it goes on to look at a second play , B , and the replies to that . |
| 2 | One has only to glance at a human skeleton to see the numerous segments of the vertebral column . |
| 3 | Development of new ranges has also continued at a considerable pace . |
| 4 | Breeding has also occurred at a cliff-top site at Beachy Head , and the species is now colonising inland sites , with regular nesting at Chichester gravel pits , and birds present in other localities , particularly in the Arun valley , almost every season . |
| 5 | Uma Thurman stars as a hitch-hiker who ends up working at a pansexual beauty ranch , where she joins fellow workers in rebelling against the owners and their male-servicing feminine hygiene products . |
| 6 | Paul gets deeply drunk at a New Year 's Eve party , where those friends who already have children get wheezily maudlin and dilate on the sheer cost of small kids versus the sheer joy of small kids ; while those who do n't have kids elbow him constantly , calling him a bit of a sharp-shooter , a devil , a sperm-bank , a prong , a peopler of nations and an irresponsible git . |
| 7 | After rounding the imposing sheer cliff face of Seelisberg , it is rather surprising when the boat draws inshore to moor at a little pier with no sign of village or community in sight . |
| 8 | Right it is a hundred miles from King 's Lynn to London , the train takes two hours to do the journey the train does not go at a constant speed , it speeds up sometimes and slows down at other times it also stops at stations on the way and on once of course as it , as it 's stopping it 's going more and more slowly and as it 's er moving off again it starts slowly and starts to go quickly but because it takes two hours in all the train goes a hundred miles in two hours we say its average speed for the journey is fifty miles per hour . |
| 9 | It is important that the medium used flows and fills all the air space , so that subsidence does not occur at a later date . |
| 10 | The choice of starting and finishing places was arbitrary — the desert does not begin at a defined line . |
| 11 | Hume gives photograph after photograph of steepsided valleys in limestone and sandstone country in Egypt , which are obviously of watercut form , many of them containing caves , from which springs probably issued at an earlier period . |
| 12 | As social life becomes increasingly organised at a global level , the sphere of employment perhaps offers least prospect for the assertion of autonomy and personal identity . |
| 13 | The conductivity does n't stay at a certain level then ? |
| 14 | rather than say if it does n't arrive at a set time |
| 15 | ‘ He 's probably come at a bad time , ’ said Pool 's longest serving player . |
| 16 | ‘ At least that generation knows how to behave at a first night … ’ |