Example sentences of "[adv prt] at a [adj] [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | The bridal couple got down at a tiny village of low mud houses . |
| 2 | Holly stood beside a poorly dug hole and he looked down at a T-shaped junction of pipes and saw that the screw-fastened aperture that gave access to the pipe join and its subsidiary were swathed in doth and knotted around in plastic sheeting . |
| 3 | They had sat opposite each other in a compartment crowded with Able Seamen , he watching the darkening fields flying outside the window and Bunny staring down at a single sheet of notepaper , pale blue in colour , which he held on his jigging knee and from whose fold poked a sprig of crab apple in bloom . |
| 4 | Eva was coming in at a high spot of the Army 's history . |
| 5 | We found that the wound margin moves in at a steady rate of 10–15μm per hour , and the wound is closed within 18 to 24 hours . |
| 6 | In both programmes , spectators happen to be present , peering in at a comic version of the star 's life . |
| 7 | You know , I feel that is left , left angina , because I 've got to rip the brassiere off at a certain time of the day |
| 8 | This had a crippling effect on the worse off at a crucial stage of recovery from the Famine . |
| 9 | A head flew off at a sideways flick of Ewan 's sword . |
| 10 | I looked up at a sheer sheet of glass and steel , one of the 1930s Rockerfeller buildings . |
| 11 | Horowitz stood in the corridor , hands in his trench-coat pocket , staring up at a framed portrait of the founder , Lance Buckmaster . |
| 12 | Finally , even if all the factors mentioned so far are not influencing the cat , it may still turn its nose up at a particular dish of food . |
| 13 | Ashley looked up at a grey ball of a cloud which hung directly overhead . |
| 14 | I myself found at the entrance of one of them a small neatly-worked tomahawk , of an inch and a half in length , together with some slips of blue cotton rags , which the birds had doubtless picked up at a deserted encampment of the natives . ’ |
| 15 | She looked at a big BMW bike parked by the kerb , then up at a darkened row of tall houses . |
| 16 | Profits are made by lending money out at a higher rate of interest than that paid to depositors . |
| 17 | The commendation reads : ‘ A difficult rescue was carried out at a high degree of risk to the crew . |
| 18 | Of course , very often garments require a number of stitches that do not work out at a neat number of pattern repeats , so you do n't HAVE to much patterns at side seams . |
| 19 | When the late Conservative administration did its sums at the end of 1963 it found that its future programme worked out at an annual rate of increase of 4.1 per cent . |
| 20 | Public money will be used to lend up to £420 a year to students in full-time higher education , which they will pay back at an inflation-linked rate of interest . |
| 21 | The Presidential Grant for 1993/94 was proposed by at an inflation-linked figure of £1,368 . |
| 22 | Neat salt , put on at a light rate of spread is just enough to de-ice the road surface . |