Example sentences of "[adv prt] at [art] [adj] [noun] [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She stared down at the disgusting mass as it came away in her hand for a moment and then she marched after him with pursed lips and a determined gleam in her eyes . |
| 2 | Disadvantages : She may not have had much experience looking after young children ; she may let you down at the last minute if something else crops up — like a boyfriend . |
| 3 | She stared down at the crumpled bed as the door clicked quietly behind him , and then buried her face miserably into the pillow . |
| 4 | Plainly there are different degrees of misbehaviour and the partners will not readily resort to the extreme sanction of expulsion , but it is in the interests of the firm that a tendency to depart from proper professional standards be investigated and warnings handed down at an early stage before serious harm is done . |
| 5 | She was immediately thrown in at the deep end when one of her young clients , Lucy Gates , died . |
| 6 | Our housework was hard and long and laborious and erm we 'd got two children to look after and then I 'd got my brother who did n't leave home until he was thirty and er , you had n't got the time , you know , to do too many things , so er my interest was the young wives ' and it was really a as regards the erm the Guild itself , I was thrown in at the deep end when this lady who was with my mother , mother was treasurer , she was secretary , erm she used to come down for me and , I know you should n't canvass but she used to canvass and say erm you know the voting , you know , will you , will you come and vote ? |
| 7 | While there was nothing extraordinary about the goal itself , Chapman turning the ball in at the near post after Clough had driven an indirect free-kick low through a crowd of players , the circumstances in which the kick had been given were a little odd and left Everton looking apoplectic . |
| 8 | Fiona , whose businessman husband Rod Potts lives in Cumbria , plans to turn in at the same time as her baby daughter Natasha . |
| 9 | Dealers were expected to get these cards filled in at the same time as fulfilling their quotas of business , but nobody had time . |
| 10 | The jolt rattled his ribs and he breathed in at the same moment as his head crashed through the surface , like a seal in the surf . |
| 11 | Brilliant light dazzled in at the left-hand window as they swept past Balnaguard , Balmacneil , Kinnaird . |
| 12 | The road was deserted and we were throbbing along at a moderate pace when suddenly the engine sputtered and stopped . |
| 13 | Behind this board ( called a pathfinder ) is the start boat which motors along at the same speed as the board . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | A large enzyme pool turning over at the same rate as a small one would produce more new enzyme , which would result in a greater amount of enzyme being available for secretion . |
| 16 | never tell , a girl we know went over at the same time as he did got it this year . |
| 17 | We have an excellent reputation in Oxfordshire as an Education Authority erm and a reputation which extends around the country , so I do see it as a vote of confidence , and I am very pleased about it , but I do think that the whole exercise was somewhat premature in the light of the erm research and investigation that was going on into the tertiary college , and indeed the consulting process actually ran through at the same time as the campaign was running on whether the Banbury School should opt out , and erm regrettably I think has lost something as a result of having the two run together . |
| 18 | Bit of a coincidence there , it went off at the same time as this ha as the tape stopped |
| 19 | A minor but telling incident : a big army exercise scheduled for last week in which French soldiers were , for the first time , to do mock battle alongside British troops in West Germany was called off at the last moment because of East Germany 's election . |
| 20 | SCIENCE lessons have perked up at a junior school since youngsters discovered the secrets of a special science activities box . |
| 21 | Smoking is on a steady decline among both men and women — but men pack up at a faster rate than women . |
| 22 | I used to do a job which involved getting up at an unearthly hour while , as far as I could tell , the rest of the world slept . |
| 23 | The Jot 1.0 specification is designed to enable applications to share handwritten notes , sketches , signatures and other free-form data across the generality of computers from hand-held devices to mainframes , so that if someone scrawls a note and sends it over a modem , it will turn up at the other end as handwriting , regardless of the sending and receiving machines , provided only that they both implement Jot 1.0 . |
| 24 | They proceeded slowly in the afternoon sun , Victoria content to gaze up at the massed conifers as they passed and listen to the rhythmic grating of the eight small horse-shoes on the roadway . |
| 25 | And pensions have not been going up at the same rate as the cost of living . |
| 26 | Is the , is the projected grant likely to go up at the same rate as in , as in nine ninety four , ninety five ? |
| 27 | With much wider powers than its predecessor , the Secondary Examinations Council ( SEC ) , SEAC is also heir to the recommendations of another of the Secretary of State 's ad hoc working parties , the Task Group on Assessment and Testing ( TGAT ) which was set up at the same time as the first curriculum working groups and , like them , worked under enormous pressure to produce proposals for the assessment of the National Curriculum . |
| 28 | Some of these children show an interesting reaction when the allergenic foods are removed from the diet and other allergens avoided : their mental and behavioural symptoms clear up at the same time as their physical ones . |
| 29 | Doctors who treat food intolerance have observed the mental symptoms to clear up at the same time as the physical ones during an elimination diet , and to reappear when the patient tests particular foods . |
| 30 | He stood up at the same time as she did , and caught her as she made for the door . |