Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] at [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 Down below , thieves , assassins , trolls and merchants all realised at about the same moment that they were in a room made treacherous of foothold by gold coins and containing something , among the suddenly menacing shapes in the semi-darkness , that was absolutely horrible .
2 But I think I would have become more comfortable with myself anyway — it 's just the times catching up with me , my success , and feeling better about myself all came at about the same time . ’
3 Charles Muses , a Columbia University Doctor of Philosophy , is convinced that there are forms of living substance far more subtle than our relatively crude polarised ( i.e. electron/proton ) matter form already hinted at in the mysterious physical effectiveness of the so-called ‘ vacuum state ’ as revealed by Quantum Physics .
4 The results are fabulous , as already hinted at by the current 45 ‘ Drive That Fast ’ , a grippingly gentle , coolly frantic , scarily mellow passage that fittingly knocks 'em over at CBGB 's .
5 They always passed at about the same time , right after midnight , and it was something he liked to watch , the way other people watch sunsets or the ocean .
6 I would have thought that for Morecambe they 're probably looking at like a thousand eleven hundred people if , you know
7 These topics are often looked at in an historical context : changes in the patterning of family life with industrialization and urbanization are examined .
8 Aberdeenshire grain farmers who last autumn stiffened themselves to trade wheat against the back stop of just £95 a tonne for product sold to the EC Commission for intervention , are now looking at at an ex-farm price of £140 a tonne .
9 In India , dowry deaths — the murder of a wife for a disappointing dowry — are not uncommon and almost invariably connived at by the legal system .
10 Jabbed by elbows , trodden on , even spat at by an old man , Constance slowly pushed through the crowd , cleaved for her by her unknown protector .
11 The starting point for each of them is to ascertain from the appropriate table of retail price indices covering the period between service of writ and trial what would have been the equivalent of those damages in the money of the day at the date of service of writ , reckoned in pounds sterling at the higher value that they then stood at at the very beginning of the period for which simple interest is to be given .
12 If somebody who has been actually shot at by a nuclear weapon is so goddamned complacent about it all , and so pig ignorant of the implications of the happening , what hope have we got that public opinion ( the silent majority ) will be sufficiently stirred to stop our power intoxicated leaders from brandishing their nuclear swords ?
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