Example sentences of "be [verb] at [adv] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | At the time of the explosion , he had been trapped at least by the legs in a corner where his shoes were found and some debris had fallen on him . |
| 2 | ‘ You 're to go at once to the vicar 's study , ’ she announced . |
| 3 | Although during the winter there had been no running water this had been restored at least in the centre of the town . |
| 4 | The picture in her mind changed , and the glaring , venomous eyes looked out of the wasted features … to be succeeded at once by the smug face of another old woman . |
| 5 | The Environment Committee had it 's last last meeting by a majority vote , made a decision that the proposed reductions in service for the Fire Service sh er er should not be gone ahead with and that and that issues around the should be looked at again at the . |
| 6 | But one practical contribution could be made at once by the IBA and the Governors of the BBC . |
| 7 | A goalkeeper does not ‘ perform ’ his function in its theatrical sense , only in the sociological usage of ‘ perform ’ which we shall be looking at further in the next chapter . |
| 8 | Both the problem and the interest of the sociology of culture can be seen at once in the difficulty of its apparently defining term : ‘ culture ’ . |
| 9 | To flush some out it is occasionally necessary to put a copy of the authority in a sealed envelope and insist it be conveyed at once to the chief executive . |
| 10 | What is more , information on the product included in the packaging ‘ must be precise and comprehensible , ( and ) must be provided at least in the official language(s) of the Member States of destination . ’ |
| 11 | Given that precedent , the institution by Thomas Attwood , a banker , of the Birmingham Political Union of the Lower and Middle Classes , to be followed at once by the creation all over the country of other political unions , must have seemed ominous . |
| 12 | Four different parts of a plot can be viewed at once on the screen , the X and/or Y scaled between linear and logarithmic and size of the plotted data points changed . |
| 13 | Firstly , the offensive must be spread at once to the Left Bank ; not , now , because this might represent the best way to Verdun , but ‘ rather on the tactical necessity of relieving our main attack ’ . |
| 14 | The lectures will all be held at 7pm in the Great Room of the Royal Society of Arts , 8 John Adam Street , London . |
| 15 | The Memorandum on the Mental Health Act 1983 ( 1987 ) issued by the then Department of Health and Social Security states , at paragraph 289 , that whilst calling upon the assistance of the police should be kept to a minimum , ‘ the police should always be informed at once of the escape or absence without leave of a patient who is considered dangerous or who is subject to restriction on discharge under Part III of the Act . ’ |
| 16 | The costs and benefits of the scheme are being looked at closely by the regional flood defence committee and the Ministry of Agriculture , Fisheries and Food . |
| 17 | She was being carried at considerably over the legal speed-limit towards an unknown destination — and quite possibly what a Victorian heroine would have regarded as a ‘ fate worse than death ’ , since she could hardly imagine that Luke had gone to the trouble of virtually kidnapping her in order to spend a quiet weekend playing Scrabble . |
| 18 | It might have been the stories about the blood pressure of inebriate volunteers being measured at 3am in the morning . |
| 19 | This is followed at 1.15pm with the Mobil 1 Superbike race , the Regal 600 race at 2.30pm , and the concurrently run Iwak ( UK ) 400 Supersport O'Kane Haulage 125 race at 3.30pm . |
| 20 | I was enrolled at once in the village school which had two teachers who were sisters , one taking all the younger classes and the other the older children . |
| 21 | Bond was examined at 8.00pm on the Tuesday evening in the Crown & Anchor tavern in the Strand by Cline ( in the chair ) , Baillie , Abernethy , Home , Houlston and Cooper , with Coleman in attendance and W. Mounsher as secretary . |
| 22 | It was answered at once in the basement . |
| 23 | It was opened at once by the Town Clerk . |
| 24 | Vassall was recognised at once by the Russians in Moscow as a homosexual and blackmailed . |
| 25 | The pit-bull terrier was found at 5am in the Hilltop Garage on the Dean and Chapter Industrial Estate . |
| 26 | Salata was arrested at 12.05am outside the development of luxury homes , centred on a polo club , after reports from security guards that he had been repeatedly coming to the south gate . |
| 27 | The Washington police fired tear gas at them and the gas was blown at once across the White House garden . |