Example sentences of "have [verb] [adv prt] 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 | Their union has not only survived the rigours of a decade , but has come out at the other end stronger than ever . |
| 3 | But Darlington Tory councillor Peter Jones has hit out at the Labour group , which he said was alerted of problems seven years ago . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 ? |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 |
| 8 | Lorton wondered if he 'd chickened out at the last moment . |
| 9 | Instead of liking the look of the water , wading in carefully and finding it was wonderful , she 'd tumbled in at the deep end . |
| 10 | Someone had had to drop out at the last minute and there was an unexpected vacancy to be filled . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | but I said well at least you 've got it all done , you do n't have to rush around at the last minute . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | It was a torture which was part of the school 's underground mythology , but something he assumed had died out at the same time as the belief that bullying was inevitable , harmless and good for the victim 's character . |
| 17 | Shiona had smiled back at the fair-haired youth who had so recently become her brother . |
| 18 | She had to look up at the glittering green eyes ; she could n't help herself ; she had to watch as Fincara stooped down before her , white hands on knees , and sang — |
| 19 | They said no more then , for the coach had pulled up at the main door . |
| 20 | While he and Blanche hummed up in the lift to the conference room , Dexter told the superintendent what he had found out at the dry cleaner 's . |
| 21 | We also had to settle in at the new apartment , which I 'm very impressed by ( and only hope it 's a long let , but I 'm scatterbrained about such things and leave all that to Tod ) . |
| 22 | Charles kept remembering what Micky Banks had gone through at the same stage , and often , like his predecessor , was ready to throw in the towel and say it was impossible . |
| 23 | I then had dinner with Trevor Clay , who had taken over at the Royal College of Nursing , and he also agreed that such an offer would be enough to bring them back into negotiation . |
| 24 | János Hunyadi was regent of Hungary during the minority of King Ladislas V , but had to step down at the very moment of the fall of Constantinople when Ladislas came of age . |
| 25 | It 's really not hard at all ; you just have to dive in at the deep end . ’ |