Example sentences of "have [verb] [adv] at the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If they are to be more than mere training , then a process of informed reflection has to go on at the same time . |
| 2 | THE recovery in the housing market has come just at the right time for CALA , the Scottish house-builder , which saw interim losses nearly double to £2.85 million . |
| 3 | He can tell them in training , but they 've got to perform out there on the pitch , and probably this game has come just at the right time , after suffering a defeat like that , this is the time to get out there and show the supporters what they can really do . |
| 4 | Their union has not only survived the rigours of a decade , but has come out at the other end stronger than ever . |
| 5 | But Darlington Tory councillor Peter Jones has hit out at the Labour group , which he said was alerted of problems seven years ago . |
| 6 | The Aussie singer , who has been accused of copying Madonna herself , has herself been accused of copying Madonna , has hit out at the American superstar . |
| 7 | WHAT do you do when the date and time of your official opening has been set , the invitations sent out and your guest of honour has to drop out at the last minute due to matters of national importance ? |
| 8 | He 'd looked up at the great thing dropping out of the sky right towards his head , and had flung himself down , expecting at any second to become just a little greasy mark in a great big hole . |
| 9 | For their tickets , and I said at the area council if they had turned up like they turned up to pay them thirty pound and eight pound , if they 'd turned up at the same time with a petition form what a difference it would |
| 10 | Lorton wondered if he 'd chickened out at the last moment . |
| 11 | Instead of liking the look of the water , wading in carefully and finding it was wonderful , she 'd tumbled in at the deep end . |
| 12 | Someone had had to drop out at the last minute and there was an unexpected vacancy to be filled . |
| 13 | I showed that instead the symmetry would have broken everywhere at the same time , rather than just inside bubbles . |
| 14 | In the classical theory of general relativity one can not predict how the universe would have begun because all the known laws of science would have broken down at the big bang singularity . |
| 15 | Eddie was staring at her with eyes as hard as granite but all she said was , ‘ You 'll have to go in at the front door . |
| 16 | But even so Elizabeth should have known what she was walking into , should have looked closely at the encircling fields , the rock-built house and Hywel all muddy and iced and quiet from winter toil . |
| 17 | Finally he suggested that the committee would have to look both at the alternative provision for the 16–19 age-group that was provided by BTEC , CGLI , CVPE , and RSA ( all that which is to come under the general control of the new National Council for Vocational Qualifications ) and at the extent to which pupils who have followed GCSE courses may have become accustomed to a different kind of assessment procedure from that incorporated in A levels . |
| 18 | I 've an awful feeling we should have gone right at the last junction . |
| 19 | Leaf assimilation should have increased substantially at the higher c i that accompanied increasing [ CO 2 ] , unless photosynthetic capacity ( the relationship of A to c i ) declined . |
| 20 | I should have tried harder at the long jump at school |
| 21 | but I said well at least you 've got it all done , you do n't have to rush around at the last minute . |
| 22 | Several booksellers commented that their sales of Sue Townsend 's The Queen and I ( Methuen ) had roared ahead at the full price , despite the fact that the book was available at a discount at Dillons down the road or around the corner . |
| 23 | Bleeding had stopped spontaneously at the endoscopic examination . |
| 24 | Fenella and Floy and Snodgrass had sat quietly at the other side of the table , not eating very much , listening carefully to everything that was said . |
| 25 | ‘ Hello stranger , ’ Cormack had said aggressively , and Amanda had looked nervously at the two men . |
| 26 | She was glad she had the stone , when he came into the byre ; she was waiting for him as he had asked her to , she had made her way across the orchard in the fresh blue morning and let herself in through the wooden door by lifting it off its hinges , since the bolt had rusted fast long ago , and she had looked up at the full moon of the sky in the chimney hole at the centre of the round shelter 's roof , and with her stone which was sharp as a shearing knife with a bright , honed blade the marks of the whetstone were still visible in pale striations like scouring tracks — she scraped her name into one of the stones on the interior , as many others had done before her , in tall shapely capitals , the only letters she knew . |
| 27 | If it had come out at the same time , it would have been submerged , and if it had come out afterwards it would have been seen as merely reactive . |
| 28 | Carefully , slowly , Grace and her father tried to get the boat near the rock , but three times they had to pull away at the last minute . |
| 29 | She had turned inland at the right spot she was sure . |
| 30 | Or , at least , she had done so at the Young Conservatives ' Summer Dance in July . |