Example sentences of "[coord] [adv] [verb] [pers pn] at [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This can result in buyers waiting for months for the goods to arrive or not getting them at all and being fobbed off with a different machine . |
| 2 | Or not getting it at all . ’ |
| 3 | I had to put the project aside for a while , he wrote , as the rent had to be paid , not to speak of alimony , school fees and the rest , and , coming back to it after a considerable period , much longer , unfortunately , than I had anticipated , and I will not even try to apologize since you gave me a completely free hand — anyway , he wrote , trying to ignore the damp spots left on the page of his pad by his sweaty hands , anyway , coming back to it after all that time I realized that it would be quite impossible in practice to separate the valuable and the worthless , the public and the private , and that , in a sense , one would have to think in terms of either publishing the whole thing exactly as it stood , or not doing it at all . |
| 4 | So we will need to manage the whole of that block to the right of the dotted line , and therefore I think , members will appreciate that we are not going to do that effect , or indeed do it at all , if we simply continue spending at the four hundred and fifty thousand pounds which is the costs that we 're incurring in the current year . |
| 5 | These agents are toxic when given systemically , and so producing them at high concentration within the tumour is an attractive goal . |
| 6 | She did routine office stuff for the rest of the day , and only re-read it at five . |
| 7 | Obviously there is a very delicate balance between erm demanding too much of people 's time in consulting and talking with you , and not involving them at all , and you have to be very sensitive to how much time people are prepared to give and how much they want to be involved in something . |
| 8 | At Sussex we actually make a third of the time they spend on the university component of their courses compulsory work in science — that is to say every student does it — so we can actually do something about it practically by looking at our processes of initial training and coming to realise what an important section of the world this is and training teachers accordingly , and not to leave it at that but to continue with erm progressive and planned in-service training of teachers . |
| 9 | At Sussex we actually make a third of the time they spend on the university component of their courses compulsory work in science — that is to say every student does it — so we can actually do something about it practically by looking at our processes of initial training and coming to realise what an important section of the world this is and training teachers accordingly , and not to leave it at that but to continue with erm progressive and planned in-service training of teachers . |
| 10 | If all Preston 's childhood friends had lined up against a wall , as when they were waiting to be picked for football , Preston would most likely have left William to pretty near the end and then put him at left back , or somewhere he would do the least damage to his own side . |
| 11 | Fujitsu and Hitachi have made no effort to leapfrog IBM by introducing entirely new machines , for this would defeat the plug-compatible strategy : to let IBM create the demand and then meet it at lower prices . |
| 12 | To overcome this waste , I sow several hundred extra brassicas in the greenhouse in March ( cabbage , red cabbage , brussels sprouts , cauliflower , and broccoli ) , bed them out at four-inch spacing in the vegetable garden in early May and then transplant them at two-foot intervals into the headlands after horse-hoeing in June . |
| 13 | She just puts March ninety eight and then leave it at that . |
| 14 | An ideal filter would perfectly transmit signals at all desired frequencies and completely reject them at all other frequencies . |