Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [adv prt] at [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | We are concerned in fact that er the western nations did n't rather deplore earlier er Hussein 's actions against his own people using chemical weapons , and we think it 's a shame for us that we 've only come in at this point , and we must come in carefully I think . |
2 | A Sergeant with a crudely reconstructed pink blob of a nose — obviously bitten off at some stage in his professional or previous career — sat at a damascened bronze data-desk stained green with cupreous patina . |
3 | I think we 'd better switch off at this stage . |
4 | A photographic memory enabled him to avoid the obvious suspicions which Special Branch officers noting the proceedings obviously fell under at such meetings . |
5 | and we we 've always thought that , you know , to have a beat officer that was going around that could perhaps turn up at any time , would at least be some deterrent in so much that |
6 | The towns which thus sprung up at some railway centres are examples of the way in which individuality was lost , and lately the housing estate has spread a new uniformity even more widely over the country . |
7 | Most conductors just sit down at that point and , beyond making sure that the orchestra kept up with the stage , leave the music to its own devices . |
8 | But in this particular lesson the decision structure is something of a mirage , for as we have already pointed out at this stage the situation is not real enough for these children to be making anything but a superficial gesture — going through the motions of making a decision . |
9 | Election Call , the daily phone-in , has attracted audiences of more than a million , compared with between 300,000 and 700,000 who normally tune in at that time . |
10 | From the parking area above , you can easily walk down at either end of the crag , but it 's much more fun to follow the path leftwards and make a free 25 metres abseil through the blow-hole in the roof of the enormous cave of Baume Percée . |
11 | He said just go in at any time and we 'll pick it up . |
12 | His grandparents usually chip in at this point . |
13 | The hole stays the same size as the dog grows , but few of them disappear altogether and are usually operated on at some stage . |
14 | She was calm , her breathing even , she had possibly dozed off at some time , a thought she found quite odd . |
15 | For basic shapes though , and it is better always to start off at that level , the paper pattern is the right approach . |
16 | That was a good sign , but Jack could still come out at any time . |
17 | I could quite reasonably give up at this point , I think . |
18 | So we want to draw a picture , that 's all a graph is , a picture so it 's eas so we can get a good idea of what 's happening and we can also read off at any time . |
19 | As good Marxists the Bolshevik leaders tended to believe that following on the eventual restoration and ‘ correct ’ development of favourable economic conditions , ‘ correct ’ social and political attitudes would also come about at all levels . |
20 | He often dropped in at this time of day , and frequently stayed for a drink on the veranda and an inspection of Faye 's work in the air-conditioned studio at the back of the house that would be used more and more as the hot summer approached . |
21 | As it deepened to the random of the East Shaft top landing station a connecting tunnel was driven between the two and sinking debris was now brought out at this point and tipped on the fellside . |
22 | The seneschal 's eyes were long , seemingly stretched out at either side as though the eyeballs within were the size of clenched fists . |
23 | Cara nodded and smiled at the pork butcher as she passed him by , being fond of the pies he would sometimes sell off at half price before closing his shop on a Saturday night . |
24 | ‘ She never came back at all while Dad was alive . |