Example sentences of "[adj] [to-vb] [adv] at the [noun sg] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | For light to work by at the period concerned , a miner had only a small coffee-pot shaped metal oil lamp with a wick protruding from the spout . |
| 2 | Costs do rise , as you are careful to point out at the start of the feature , but there can be no excuse for the blatant abuse of the costings given . |
| 3 | It would be ironic to pick away at the mortar for a few decades only to break through into the next-door cell . |
| 4 | He was on good terms with Marcus , content to know both that they would talk again , and that it was impossible to do so at the moment . |
| 5 | We were relieved to stop off at the Hotel de la Cachette in Arc 1600 for a delicious buffet lunch . |
| 6 | But remember that any increase in death cover is likely to come out at the expense of a lower retirement benefit . |
| 7 | Unix System Labs and Open Software Foundation presidents Roel Pieper and David Tory are supposed to turn up at the roll-out in New York with signed technology exchange agreements in their hands . |
| 8 | Then he would have been able to sit down at the table , loosen his shirt collar , his shoelaces , and read the evening paper until Patsy was ready . |
| 9 | Are you able to come out at the weekend with us ? ’ |
| 10 | And so we 're able to , to , once we 've found which birds er have arrived , picked a nest and er have laid eggs , we put a careful watch on them and then we 're able to tot up at the end of the breeding season , how many young have actually fledged . |
| 11 | She could have hired a team of professionals to do the work , of course , but she 'd wanted to be able to look round at the end of it all and know she 'd done it . |
| 12 | Hazel , like nearly all wild animals , was unaccustomed to look up at the sky . |
| 13 | It would be advisable to build in at the planning stage something which would create a need for co-operation on the new planet . |
| 14 | In this it surpassed all that Lanfranc had been able to achieve even at the height of his influence in 1072 . |
| 15 | Provided he could use the motion , he might be able to rock away at the melancholy and eventually shift it off its fierce sticking point . |
| 16 | I suppose that the average Briton , although not naturally vindictive and revengeful , would be inclined to smile broadly at the idea of 3000 Inland |
| 17 | In order to answer this last question it is necessary to look briefly at the type of anthropological work available to Marx and Engels at the time they were writing . |
| 18 | It is necessary to look continuously at the portfolio of one 's businesses . |
| 19 | It therefore seems to be necessary to look carefully at the contract terms before deciding whether or not there is redundancy . |
| 20 | It will be necessary to look closely at the relief sought , and the grounds advanced in support , but it is convenient first to establish the background of statutory and common law to the matters now in issue . |
| 21 | There will be plenty of time for the softhearted to recover back at the hotel . |
| 22 | He left the previous evening to drive to Ipswich , where his own term is due to begin today at the University of Suffolk . |
| 23 | ‘ I 'm scared to go there at the moment . |
| 24 | At the very last minute Nessie handed the pig bucket to Tim , who was sitting at the back with Kevin and the children ready to jump off at the road end . |
| 25 | Have I QUIET MUSIC ready to REST in at the end of the hymn ? |
| 26 | But she had made huge progress , Lisa congratulated herself as she got ready to pack up at the end of another exhausting day . |
| 27 | And even if Gazza fails to make his mark in Italy , there will be no shortage of interest in him , with his hometown club Newcastle last night reported to be ready to step in at the end of the season . |