Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] [adv prt] at a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It will be intriguing to see how Brecht 's play stands up at a time when Communism is loosening its ideological hold . |
| 2 | Where a problem seems obviously more complex they suggest that the client makes an appointment with an adviser to come back at a time when the bureau is officially closed to the public . |
| 3 | A moment 's thought told him that this system worked only because two-thirds of the expected total of a Yeo Davis partnership came out at an amount well in excess of his salary , or that of any public servant of his age . |
| 4 | Loretta 's mind went off at a tangent . |
| 5 | A window at one end gave onto a coal hole ; a little daylight filtered through at an angle from an iron grating in the pavement above . |
| 6 | The branch road from Dent joins in at a bridge and the hamlet of Cowgill , once a parish in its own right , is immediately beyond : here is a church built in 1873 , a converted school , the pleasant residence and gardens of Cowgill Grange and an isolated terrace of cottages . |
| 7 | He became lost in one of his dour moods so I let him be and went to the window to stare out at a dairy maid carrying pitchers of milk between the barns and the kitchen . |
| 8 | If you watch the start or the first few miles , you 'll see a mass of humanity moving along at a snail 's pace . |
| 9 | An application for a warrant of further detention can be made up to 42 hours from the commencement of the detention clock , in a situation where the 36 hour period runs out at a time when it is not possible for a magistrate 's court to sit . |
| 10 | Meanwhile , police last night hit back at a lawyer 's claim that they had mishandled the arrest of a 12-year-old boy who was released and eliminated from the inquiry last Wednesday . |
| 11 | He 's far more likely to catch a chill standing about at a show or in the hunting field than after a bath , as long as you take the right precautions . |
| 12 | The skunk has a pair of these glands and not only can it vary the strength of each jet according to the side from which you approach but it is even able to twist the nozzle of the gland so that the spray shoots out at an angle . |
| 13 | A SPECIAL constable was shot dead at point-blank range and his colleague gunned down at a routine police check , an Old Bailey court heard yesterday . |
| 14 | This year his television career set off at a run with Aah Sean , a one hour documentary which offered a cock-eyed perspective on his Dublin youth . |
| 15 | I 've never been soooo pissed off at a game than I was at the rangers game at Elland Road . |
| 16 | The road fizzled out at a gate plastered with fire hazard warnings , leading onto the moor itself . |
| 17 | He indicated an upright armchair drawn up at an angle to his desk , to which he now returned . |
| 18 | And when you consider that those prices include a £5 donation to The Spastics Society , the music works out at a fiver per CD or cassette ! |
| 19 | As a rule he was unobserved , as he took care to go out at a time when everyone in the house was occupied elsewhere . |
| 20 | It 's known as the Vadinamian Valve , and it 's big enough for only one ship to pass through at a time . |
| 21 | Across the road a bus drew up at a stop . |
| 22 | The barge tied up at a quay . |
| 23 | His book comes out at a time when anyone who shares his concerns may be feeling particularly down-hearted . |
| 24 | ‘ Then you are without female dependants , ’ said Sophia , almost like a chairman summing up at a meeting . |
| 25 | A survey carried out at a school in Bradford , Yorks , revealed that 3.6 per cent of Asian girls aged 14 to 16 were bulimic compared to just 0.6 per cent of white girls . |
| 26 | The blade came down at an angle on my first finger , but chopped straight through the rest . |
| 27 | Mr Yeltsin , in a declaration read out at a news conference by the foreign minister , Andrei Kozyrev , described the association of former Soviet republics as amorphous and ‘ unable to fulfil the hopes invested in it ’ . |
| 28 | And in fact in the early stages I got one man working for me and er I went back into teaching again for a short time to help out at a school where the the the teacher was ill , and I was teaching in the morning and then doing two-man jobs in the afternoon , and he was doing one man jobs in the morning . |
| 29 | THE playwright Harold Pinter was among guests who fled in night clothes when fire broke out at a Brighton hotel yesterday . |
| 30 | A fire brigade spokesman said the fire broke out at a house in The Bank at 9.30am . |