Example sentences of "[vb mod] [verb] [adv] at [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Let's jump in at the deep end — literally . |
| 2 | At this stage we should look briefly at the third and final possibility , and with it some cases we shall not be discussing in this book . |
| 3 | So daunting is this prospect , that many taxpayers should look afresh at the best forms of taxation and the best destinations for the proceeds . |
| 4 | The hon. Gentleman should look back at the Labour party 's record in government before he starts to criticise ours . |
| 5 | His eyes were wired open so that he must stare unblinkingly at a giant Sagramoso head , and his own body had been reduced to roughly the same contours . |
| 6 | Though no match for Gaelstrom and Now Your Talkin , he was running on well into third at the end , and in receipt of 20lbs from Highland Spirit should go well at a big price . |
| 7 | The planning will need to take account of the fact that the groups should come together at a later stage . |
| 8 | Finally it was agreed that both should get down at the same moment . |
| 9 | Another thing , perhaps , we should notice right at the very beginning is that Jesus did n't actually speak in pa , in in er , in chapters , and they 've lost , they 've been put in for our convenience , and chapter fifteen is not the beginning of a new incident Jesus had already been speaking to the people , he had been teaching them in chapter fourteen . |
| 10 | ( A cannonball fired upward from the earth will be slowed down by gravity and will eventually stop and fall back ; a photon , however , must continue upward at a constant speed . |
| 11 | People must turn up at the proverbial factory gates fresh , fit and ready to toil . |
| 12 | ‘ Look , May , ’ he said , ‘ if you 're not careful you 'll end up at the funny farm the way you 're going on . ’ |
| 13 | If you 've got signs on the main line saying traffic point , traffic censors ahead , you 're gon na have people saying oh sod that I 'll get off at the next junction instead |
| 14 | people are gon na say oh well I 'll get off at the next one |
| 15 | So it 'll come up at the next C S N T . |
| 16 | Just turn everything up , ’ and I said to the drummer , ‘ Get out there and start drumming the intro to Hot For Teacher and I 'll come in at the appropriate moment . ’ |
| 17 | We 'll start down at the far end of what we call the lured mark and from there you 'll have to tack all the way up to this closest one , the windward mark . |
| 18 | ‘ It might pop up at an awkward moment , ’ he said , which was hardly any better . ’ |
| 19 | After the shopping Denis would sit in the orderly room , watching his father write in ledgers twice as wide and twenty times as thick as his school exercise-books , or he 'd gaze longingly at the Royal Irish Constabulary uniforms of his father 's colleagues with their shining buttons and belts hanging neatly from pegs on the wall , the caps , the spiked helmets and the little pill-box hats of the cavalry police lined up , as if on parade , on a table along with whistle-chains , handcuff-cases and batons . |
| 20 | ‘ When I first watched Michael Chang play tennis , ’ Jose recalls , ‘ I told several people that I believed Chang could do well at the French Open . |
| 21 | And whilst we had no opportunities last year for canvassing or erm for getting members we we could have I I felt er put on more fund-raising events as we had a quiet year and we could have probably at the same time persuaded one or two people to actually join us . |
| 22 | The outcome could swing dramatically at the last stage . |
| 23 | I do n't exclude myself from myself , but I I I 'd give him a nine and I I 'd come in at a seven I think . |
| 24 | Admission rates were £4 for adults , £concessionary , with further concessionary rates of £10 for a family ( 2+2 ) and a ‘ bring a pensioner ’ scheme whereby anyone bringing a pensioner ( or a child ) could get in at the concessionary rate . |
| 25 | Also , if the material is soft it may buckle easily at the inner side of the bend and vitiate the result . |
| 26 | Well we went into the Rifle Brigade Barracks at Winchester and used to work out at a big house outside of Winchester so we had to march out there and then at the time of Dunkirk , they were looking for places to put all the soldiers that they 'd brought and er , we were cleared out of Barnet , er out of Winchester Barracks and posted up to Nottingham and we worked in the factory , which was taken over by the Army then and erm , and then whilst there , I suppose that was about nineteen what , about nineteen fo coming up to nineteen forty two , they decided to have a recheck or rethink on medicals , so we were all subject to another medical and they put me back to A one and says , right we 're getting rid of all A one personnel out of the Pay Corp , you have a choice Royal Army Ordnance Corp or the Royal Artillery . |
| 27 | As with all hill climbing , a BM may end up at a local minimum . |
| 28 | Companies often recruit staff from speculative letters they have kept on file , and your letter may arrive just at the right moment . |
| 29 | Its supporters in the streets may melt away at the first sign of trouble . |
| 30 | The alarm may go off at the wrong times and this can be very irritating but the fault can be capitalized on and the child encouraged to get up and go to the lavatory anyway . |