Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [adv] at [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If the Home Secretary does not want the Bill to do serious damage to internal discipline in prisons , resulting in matters that should be dealt with by internal disciplinary procedures going to court and taking up the time of the criminal justice system — making it far more difficult for prison governors to run their prisons — he had better look again at that clause and amend it . |
| 2 | Although , officially , steerage passengers were only allowed there at certain times , no-one took any notice if a few people walked the deck . |
| 3 | ‘ But apart from the fact that my mother obviously lived here at some time I know nothing at all . ’ |
| 4 | This was sparked off by a federal Collective State Presidency order on Jan. 9 , apparently aimed principally at republican-controlled forces in Slovenia and Croatia , which required that all " unauthorized " armed units should surrender their arms within 10 days to the JNA . |
| 5 | The first thing to remember is that as you turn the boat away from the wind , you let out the mainsheet , the sail only works properly at one angle to the wind and so it 's essential to let out the mainsheet as you bear away . |
| 6 | Er I 'm still trying to digest the er implications of er these various er flows but just to comment perhaps at this stage on the possibility or otherwise of er defining a er a district location . |
| 7 | Herbert Cranko and his bride , Phyllis , were already living together at 6 Montpelier Walk , Knightsbridge . |
| 8 | You can SCAN , which involves just looking quickly at each page , to pick out anything which you recognise as being relevant to you , and which you can then read in detail ( scanning involves looking for keywords ) . |
| 9 | In this paper I shall thus look systematically at this break with the aura of high modernist art in the 1920s ' avant-garde and in more recent decades . |
| 10 | Even the pair of plumed cockatoos that normally chattered away at each other in their wrought-iron enclosure were asleep on their perches . |
| 11 | They brought me down that day from Edinburgh , bundled me into a transit van with seats but no windows , handcuffed to a big quiet London lad who would n't talk to me at all and did n't even say much to the other two cops in the back of the transit just sat staring ahead and we seemed to drive all night just stopping once at some service station on the Ml , took a while to arrange everything , then they came in with a selection of cans of soft drinks and sandwiches and pasties and pork pies and chocolate and we all sat there munching then they asked me did I need the toilet and I said yes and they opened the door and it was straight over the grass into the gents ' toilets , two cops guarding the door and some men , looked like truckers , standing watching me , waiting for their turn after I 'd had my private visit ; only wanted a pee but I could n't do it even though the big lad was n't actually watching just having him standing there handcuffed to me was enough so they checked the stalls and then took the cuffs off me and I had to leave the door open a crack while I went , then back out and I see the other cop cars Christ a Range Rover and a Senator too I 'm a fucking VIP , then it 's into the van and on with the journey to London where the questioning starts ; they 're concentrating on Sir Rufus 's murder , for now , because they found a card a fucking business card in the woods near the burned cottage ; not mine that would have been too obvious but a card from a guy I know on Jane 's Defence Weekly with some scribbled notes on the back : |
| 12 | ‘ Of course nothing can be formally arranged just at this present , ’ went on Miss Merchiston , and Theda almost laughed out to see the burgeoning hope in the poor man 's face , ‘ for with dear Mama in this sad condition , I could not reconcile it with my conscience to leave her in the care of other hands . |
| 13 | Pick an open , clear piece of water and close your eyes for small intervals which you gradually make longer at each attempt . |
| 14 | ‘ I always rated Pally at Ayresome Park , but there is no doubt he has blossomed on a bigger stage . |
| 15 | Remote or unusual keys are still featured only at extraordinary moments , but , apart from B minor , not necessarily with the same associations as before . |
| 16 | This move was executed overnight , with little time to spare , for Kluck , believing both French and British forces already defeated , was still marching westward at maximum speed and would shortly have been able to envelop the BEF 's left flank . |
| 17 | Not only Waite , but Anderson , McCarthy , Keenan , Mann and most of the others were also hidden there at various times , housed underground on two soundproofed levels . |
| 18 | In the two tablet groups , the mean fibre scores both dropped slightly at six months — to 17.9 ( 2.2 ) in the ursodeoxycholic acid treated , and to 16.5 ( 1.3 ) in the placebo treated groups — probably because , for the purposes of the trial , the patients were encouraged to avoid high fibre foods . |
| 19 | The traffic would force him to slow down , and probably stop altogether at some point . |
| 20 | The author also hinted yesterday at fresh scandals to come which would damage Prince Charles ' reputation so badly that he could never become King . |
| 21 | Games opportunities at Goldenacre both during the week and on Saturdays also increase markedly at this stage . |
| 22 | The two men were now staring fixedly at each other . |
| 23 | The research department is often involved again at this stage when the advertising starts to appear in order to judge its effectiveness . |
| 24 | After lunch ( at about two o'clock ) many of us feel tired and may take a short nap , even though body temperature does not nominally fall much at this time . |
| 25 | Luke 's nearness seemed to reach into her core , sparking off those treacherous currents again , so that to even speak coherently at this moment was monumentally difficult . |
| 26 | He wondered what he would do if he could n't get into the house … well , he supposed he could go back to Joseph 's place , spend the night there and then hurry home at first light , when the servants would be up . |
| 27 | Similar strips of wood are then fixed vertically at 1.8 m ( 6 ft ) intervals . |
| 28 | Turn left on road at far end , past waterworks building on left ( d ) then turn right at ornamental garden into driveway . |
| 29 | But who knows , the illustrious Mr Punch may yet ride again at some time in the future . |
| 30 | It was n't that I was n't listening , I heard him all right ; but I was busy with my own thoughts , or , rather , my own feelings — the two were inextricably mixed together at this moment — and what he said was merely a background to the tumult that was going on inside me . |