Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] [adv prt] at [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At times like that , you call on your mates , and Kenny Everett kindly got us out of a spot of trouble there and agreed to come on at short notice . |
| 2 | It was cold in the stadium and a leaden sky threatened to weep down at any moment on the small crowd assembled below . |
| 3 | The pupils all began looking round at each other and Mildred knew there was little time before someone recognized her . |
| 4 | It was a further achievement that delegates from these two , until recently hostile , camps could clash sharply in debate during the conference without acrimony , although black consciousness delegates from Natal threatened to walk out at one stage . |
| 5 | A touch of deja vu started to creep in at this point . |
| 6 | He managed to blurt out at one stage in the proceedings : ‘ I did n't have any dollars , no gold , I do n't smoke and I earn 3,500 lei a month . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ I stood beside the drill and kept looking up at this line we had just made ; and it was like a gun-barrel . |
| 8 | Another thing that did come up at that training day the other day was that we all need a , a , a , anybody that 's going to do any sort of appraising will need to know what the erm training programme is |
| 9 | True , there had been a few unhappy minutes when they 'd been having coffee in Karlovy Vary when she and Ven had reared up at each other . |
| 10 | By Feb. 9 sympathy strikes had broken out at higher education establishments in several cities . |
| 11 | Cos it 's an outdoor job , it 's a three shift system for those on the bottom , er early , morning and late , cos the eight hour day had come in at this time . |
| 12 | I tell you , if a helicopter had come down at that customs post , there would have been no stopping me . |
| 13 | But he had to find out at some stage , did n't he ? ’ |
| 14 | And if you do die before your 65th birthday , your dependents would receive the cash benefit that had built up at that time , or Guaranteed Minimum Death Benefit — whichever is the greater . |
| 15 | That being the case , the breeze she felt was probably being caused by air which had got in at low tide being forced out at high tide . |
| 16 | ‘ If I had shown up at any exchange with that case , ’ said Quinn , ‘ they 'd have spotted it and killed the boy . ’ |
| 17 | Their first attempt , however , was foiled when they lost the centre leaf and had to walk out at this point . |
| 18 | The new land comprised 240 million cubic metres of lava which had spewed out at 1,100 °C ( 2,012°F ) and was cooled by dowsing with six million tons of sea water in an effort to halt its relentless drive . |
| 19 | I spoke later to Jackie , lifeboat secretary , and asked him how many of a crew he had to call on at any time . |
| 20 | If speaker D had gone on at some length about ‘ cobbles ’ or rough roads in general , or if the analysis only had part of this fragment , up to C 's it was rather rough , then we might have had no evidence of a divergence in speakers ' topics within the conversation . |
| 21 | The young man with the terrible toothache — Harrison — had sought her out and , clumsily but resolutely , he had told her that he intended to leave the quarries , go back to his father 's farm , assess what his prospects were there and then come back and … his resolution had run out at that point but the aim was clear . |
| 22 | And since , as Mr Lawrence says , there could hardly be anything personal in the attack , we 're left with the probability that anyone who had happened along at that moment would have been dealt with in the same way . |
| 23 | and er with my son particularly earlier on in his career things were going round and round in circles and in the end I had to step in at one point , grab all the papers as they came past as they were and saying , come on . |
| 24 | But she had to step down at one stage because she herself won the top prize of the day — and could n't present it to herself ! |
| 25 | But the moment Vincente 's back was turned the ball tended to squirt off at eccentric angles — or , worse , refuse to move at all . |