Example sentences of "[adv prt] at a [adj] [noun] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yeah well that 's not so bad as long as you can get her down at a reasonable hour and get to sleep . |
| 2 | We had to put the babies down at a certain time and leave them — it was horrible . |
| 3 | So he turned into Gambrinus 's and sat himself down at a small ironwork and marble table , and asked for some water . |
| 4 | 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 ? ’ |
| 5 | OS/2 will get 8.5% of the total workstation market by 1996 , it says , with Unix coming in at a hefty 47% and Windows NT possibly capturing 30–40% of the office desktop/workstation market . |
| 6 | The road was deserted and we were throbbing along at a moderate pace when suddenly the engine sputtered and stopped . |
| 7 | ‘ Delphis ’ floats around dreamy vocals , clever chords , is pushed along at a dignified pace and is a perfect antidote to the tense teutonic Techno and ball-breaking Gospel anthems currently dominating the scene . |
| 8 | He went off at a steady trot and I thought as I had done so often that there could n't be many noblemen in England like him . |
| 9 | SCIENCE lessons have perked up at a junior school since youngsters discovered the secrets of a special science activities box . |
| 10 | The boats picked us up at a pre-arranged rendezvous and we sped off again to do a foot patrol on the lough shore road . |
| 11 | They arrived late at night at the colliery house where Patterson 's parents lived , put up at a nearby hotel and the next day toured the working-men 's clubs before attending the wedding where Norman 's good looks made him the talk of all the women present . |
| 12 | The generator revved up and down , providing power to the automatic launcher ; it had some sort of randomly set variation built into where it was aiming because the clays came out at a different angle and heading each time . |
| 13 | You might arrange for pay to be given out at a different time and check whether the trains are less crowded somewhat earlier in the afternoon . |
| 14 | That was the trouble with harbour-watching , there were so many inexplicable activities carried on at a stately pace and with the deliberation of a choreographed performance . |