Example sentences of "have [verb] [adv prt] at [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | Criticism of the empress has developed along at least three different lines . |
2 | In the US , where the government is the only major backer , research has limped along at about half a million dollars a year . |
3 | WHEN Norman Lamont opens his battered old red box on Tuesday , his action will signal the end of a tradition which has stretched back at least two centuries . |
4 | Debbie sports a Medicine shirt , to remind us that the difficult West Coast noiseniks were once to play Rollercoaster , but would 've had to go on at about three in the afternoon to meet some venues ' childish curfews . |
5 | He was a bit of a character — he 'd have to get up at about four o'clock in the morning to cycle to work , and during the war , he was hurtling along during a blackout when suddenly the road disappeared and he went careering into a bomb crater , about 50 feet wide and 40 feet deep . |
6 | If the origin of life were a probable event by ordinary human standards , then a substantial number of planets within radio range should have developed a radio technology long enough ago ( bearing in mind that radio waves travel at 186,000 miles per second ) for us to have picked up at least one transmission during the decades that we have been equipped to do so . |
7 | A Nigerian group , the Committee for the Defence of Human Rights ( CDHR ) , claimed in a report published on April 18 that the security forces had routinely tortured suspects and had carried out at least 27 summary executions in 1991 . |
8 | The BBC had edited out at least one police atrocity . |
9 | It is believed that before his death Claud ‘ Hamish ’ Hamilton had shot down at least five aircraft over Malta . |
10 | And you 've got in at least two of the last three presidents in President Clinton and President Reagan , two presidents who , who intuitively understand that , who absorbed that message , they are great persuaders . |
11 | Argentinian anti-aircraft fire had brought down at least one Harrier pilot before the gun barrels were depressed and turned against the Paras . |
12 | They all knew what had happened the previous night and , from Wallas Ward 's announcement before the curtain rose , they knew that Charles had stepped in at very short notice . |
13 | She often had to get up at about 4.0 a.m. to row workmen across and the ferry remained open until 10.0 p.m . |
14 | Abdi Aden Ibrahim , a Somali driver , said rioters near the US embassy told him that troops there had gunned down at least six people . |
15 | Abdi Aden Ibrahim , a Somali driver , said rioters near the US embassy told him that troops there had gunned down at least six people . |
16 | And reading those terrible things , that you 're for dead , and you have to get up at so many different times . |