Example sentences of "[pers pn] [adv prt] at the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ We shall know whether they sink or swim by putting them in at the deep end , and I have every confidence that they will all do well . |
| 2 | We realise that chucking them in at the deep end is not satisfactory . |
| 3 | Or drop them in at the Northern Echo offices in Northallerton and Darlington . |
| 4 | With clenched teeth , Ace pulled the pins on the grenades , paused for a couple of heartbeats , and hurled them over at the German position . |
| 5 | I do n't even know whether they let them off at the head office . |
| 6 | Exasperated Pakistani officials have threatened to round up the Arabs and drop them off at the American embassy . |
| 7 | He said : ‘ I asked her to drop me off at the nearby Woodcutters Club . |
| 8 | The chappie who let you in at the front door was Norman he 's form Salford East . |
| 9 | ‘ I 'm afraid I 've plunged you in at the deep end . |
| 10 | ‘ For dropping you in at the deep end , before you 'd had a chance to get your bearings … ’ |
| 11 | I 'll drop you off at the Jolly Farmer , then you can walk up the hill to get to the school . |
| 12 | Are you back at the old business with Klein ? ’ |
| 13 | See you back at the old sales office . |
| 14 | It is clear that the derivation of the high number of word paths from mid-classes and the problem of filtering them out at the lexical access stage means that syntactic/semantic information must be brought to bear as soon as words are accessed . |
| 15 | Lance Buckmaster , our esteemed Minister for External Security has asked me to attend him down at the ancestral home , Tavey Grange on Dartmoor . ’ |
| 16 | I decided the only thing to do was throw her in at the deep end and go right down the village high street , where the roads were busiest and noisiest with holiday-makers , and simply stand there trying to calm her down . |
| 17 | Fen dropped her off at the front door of Chimneys . |
| 18 | Anyway , I had built her up at the front end so that she was standing with her fore feet on a half door and had given her a strong oily purgative . |
| 19 | I think he 's at the bottom of a bog with a hole in his head and they 're waiting to scoop her up at the right moment . |
| 20 | In spite of his explanations they 'd insisted on signing him out at the little cabin , and he 'd snatched the case out of his car and run back , wondering why it always rained . |
| 21 | It was seven and the night nurse had already begun her round at the other side of the house when he slipped downstairs . |
| 22 | Codron tried to get it on at the Royal Court — on the face of things , an ideal setting-but it was turned down there , too . |
| 23 | Yes yes if members had any complaints about their work I would report it up at the head office and up up at the the branch office in Park . |
| 24 | Overall the computational complexity of the system rules it out at the present time for application to the recognition task . |
| 25 | With Matthew able to drive , he dropped us at the start and picked us up at the other end , and we arrived within 2 minutes of each other , which was remarkable because we were all 3/4 hour late ! |
| 26 | Chris Wolley emerged as a great choir leader and guitar player at this period and his strident voice leading the crew seemed to calm the roughest sea or cheer us up at the right moment . |