Example sentences of "[pers pn] [adv prt] at [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Making a stock of suitable pictures and then sending them in at a steady trickle to the news editor throughout the year gives your children 's work a good chance of being chosen . |
| 2 | ‘ 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 . |
| 3 | We realise that chucking them in at the deep end is not satisfactory . |
| 4 | Or drop them in at the Northern Echo offices in Northallerton and Darlington . |
| 5 | With clenched teeth , Ace pulled the pins on the grenades , paused for a couple of heartbeats , and hurled them over at the German position . |
| 6 | I do n't even know whether they let them off at the head office . |
| 7 | Exasperated Pakistani officials have threatened to round up the Arabs and drop them off at the American embassy . |
| 8 | The bus letting me off at a convenient corner in the city , I walked to the Sheraton and from a telephone there spoke to Mrs Baudelaire . |
| 9 | He said : ‘ I asked her to drop me off at the nearby Woodcutters Club . |
| 10 | Remember that , as with tools for any kind of job , there are good tools and not-so-good tools and if you buy poor quality tools , they may let you down at a vital time . |
| 11 | The chappie who let you in at the front door was Norman he 's form Salford East . |
| 12 | ‘ I 'm afraid I 've plunged you in at the deep end . |
| 13 | ‘ For dropping you in at the deep end , before you 'd had a chance to get your bearings … ’ |
| 14 | I 'll drop you off at the Jolly Farmer , then you can walk up the hill to get to the school . |
| 15 | It can then call you back at a specified number . |
| 16 | Are you back at the old business with Klein ? ’ |
| 17 | See you back at the old sales office . |
| 18 | The human race is eating them up at a staggering rate . |
| 19 | Rather they preferred to farm them out at a fixed rent , at leases which , in the fourteenth century , became progressively longer , and to enjoy the freedom to take up offices or to serve in the army . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | Lance Buckmaster , our esteemed Minister for External Security has asked me to attend him down at the ancestral home , Tavey Grange on Dartmoor . ’ |
| 22 | In the early hours of 9th January , 1969 , Vigilant sighted the suspect vessel entering the River Swale near the Isle of Sheppey and followed her in at a safe distance . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | For , after switching on power , it carries him along at a leisurely 10mph . |
| 25 | Yeah well that 's not so bad as long as you can get her down at a reasonable hour and get to sleep . |
| 26 | Blind panic sent her off at a stumbling run . |
| 27 | Fen dropped her off at the front door of Chimneys . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | He had said hardly anything since we had picked him up at a draughty street corner where the Hanko road leaves Helsinki . |