Example sentences of "[adv prt] [prep] [noun] at the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After a few seconds of awkward introductions , Zohra excused herself with a promise to be down for cocoa at the usual time , then led Harry upstairs . |
| 2 | 24 , said : ‘ They agreed to stand in as headliners at the last minute . |
| 3 | In the very beginning she had sat down with Ruth at the small table . |
| 4 | They came in with guns at the ready , expecting trouble . |
| 5 | Wolstenholme even chipped in from 25ft at the 17th for a three . |
| 6 | She went over to the shelf where she had left her drink , and stared down in dismay at the overturned glass , the shards of crystal glinting wickedly up at her in the dim light . |
| 7 | Er when it comes down to application at the local sense then at the local level , I think my colleagues might be able to er give more enlightenment on that . |
| 8 | You may refuse to believe it 's happened to you : some people who 've been made redundant pretend everything 's the way it was and set off for work at the same time , then spend hours hanging around the streets , teashops or libraries until they can go home at the usual time . |
| 9 | Whatever did not sell was , it is said , traded off from stalls at the next Party Conference . |
| 10 | Little Horace Charles was carried off by pneumonia at the tender age of eight months , but Ernest William , Henry James and Herbert George were healthy young children crawling or toddling around those rooms in Wilmington Square . |
| 11 | Most were not considered worth interviewing , but a shortlist was drawn up for interview at the Northern Foods flat in Clarges Street . |
| 12 | I looked up in amazement at the abrupt shift . |
| 13 | The opening ceremony , set for last May , was cancelled , and local activists had to remain on the original walls while gazing up in wonder at the spectacular treat they were being denied . |
| 14 | Melissa looked up in surprise at the earnest ring in Sybil 's voice . |
| 15 | And then the moment when the cupboard door opened and he looked up in terror at the German soldier staring down at him . |
| 16 | The recruitment team can not get the letters out and keep the records up to date at the same time ; and if they employ temporaries , other problems arise : where can they sit ? |
| 17 | Gilts registered gains of up to £½ at the longer end , in what were described as ‘ squeezy ’ conditions . |
| 18 | Correction : Hewlett-Packard Co says that its new HP 9000 RISC server line should boost performance by up to 70% at the top end of its line , not 7% as reported ( UX No 380 ) . |
| 19 | A question that 's already been asked of me , on appendix C , up at employee at the largest single figure there is a hundred and thirty seven thousand eight hundred . |
| 20 | There 's no use in running out of money at the crucial moment . ’ |
| 21 | Nos. 384 , 387 and 398 were taken out of service at the fifth stage of the conversion on 16 October 1951 and the rest survived until the sixth stage on 5 January 1952 , when they were scrapped at Penhall Road . |
| 22 | It only stops when it ( and you ! ) are crushed out of existence at the central point of the hole ( or a little earlier when the stretching and crushing forces wreck it ) . |
| 23 | At the same time , however , increasing concern was being expressed both in and out of government at the social costs of reform . |
| 24 | But out of sight at the other end of the course , Mr Hill had also come to grief . |
| 25 | CW reported on allocation of new machines and re-allocation of replacements , arising out of agreements at the last meeting . |
| 26 | Since the imperial poet Da Ponte had fallen out of favour at the Viennese court , and had left in disgrace , his temporary successor Caterino Mazzolà was asked to freshen up the old warhorse for a new setting , while Guardasoni rushed to Italy to find suitable singers . |
| 27 | Female subjects too are likely , as Gilligan says , to be left out of psychology at the theory-building stage . |
| 28 | The fear is that people will start to flood out of Iraq at the same time , in which case we could be talking about up to 2 million people leaving Iraq through Jordan . |
| 29 | erm the fear is that people will start to flood out of Iraq at the same time , in which case we could be talking about up to 2,000,000 people leaving Iraq through Jordan . |
| 30 | The young man 's car , a Jensen Interceptor was out of action at the relevant time . |