Example sentences of "[adj] [to-vb] [adv prt] at [det] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 Make it absolutely clear , as I did , that you are prepared to fight back at any time of the day or night no matter how painful it may be ; and that you will keep on fighting until the day you finally beat them .
2 It is not easy to hit back at that sort of conversation .
3 What a way to spend the morning , hammering away at the base of a bomb that is likely to go off at any moment .
4 Breathlessly , Jenny poured out the news that the rear offside wheel of Miss Clinton 's car was loose , likely to come off at any moment , sooner or later certain to come off .
5 The others were trying to drive the protesters away , and a fight seemed likely to break out at any minute , until a pair of uniformed police constables appeared , and stood watching them from the other side of the street .
6 There were six miles of gauntlet to run before reaching the open sea , and some damaged craft limped through this passage while others were still able to set off at some speed , making smoke cover with their special equipment .
7 It is also important to point out at this stage that Firbas ' notions of context-dependence/independence are much more restricted than Halliday 's notions of given/new :
8 I wanted to have that control in the studio , being able to step in at any moment . ’
9 It is convenient to point out at this stage that , for colliding gravitational and electromagnetic waves , two of the scalar polynomial invariants ( Penrose and Rindler , 1986 ) are given by ( 8.2 ) It follows from this that , in order to prove the existence of a scalar polynomial curvature singularity , it is sufficient merely to show that the component 2 is unbounded .
10 I said you were mad to come over at this time .
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