Example sentences of "[noun] [to-vb] [indef pn] at " in BNC.
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| 1 | Letting the water buoy up my weight I stretched my feet down to touch bottom and found the water came up to my ears ; took a deep breath , put the rest of my head under and reached around for Harry , unable to see him , unable with open eyes to see anything at all . |
| 2 | Be warned though , it does n't work on all PC speakers — there are one or two in the office that emit a sound of some sort , but so quietly that you need a hearing aid to catch anything at all . |
| 3 | It was a good system for everyone except the artist , who was frequently offered a low rate for the job , then had his payment deferred , and sometimes had to battle for months to receive anything at all . |
| 4 | The ‘ pure ’ entrepreneur observes the opportunity to sell something at a price higher than that at which he can buy it . |
| 5 | Could it be that Sun Microsystems Inc president Scott McNealy 's voice is being heard this side of the Atlantic , after he reportedly told Novell Inc 's Ray Noorda to fire everyone at Unix System Labs except a handful of marketing guys and the engineers ? |
| 6 | He is working on the making of a crystal-wireless set ; he is one of the first men in Scotland to produce one at home . |
| 7 | And of course the , with the boxes being all round the side , the dressing boxes , this was outmoded , we needed a building at the side , which there was sufficient room to build something at the side because we had a park at the side of it then . |
| 8 | For many people the biggest problem with using a computer is simply that you have to type something on the keyboard to achieve anything at all . |
| 9 | Their first priority to trace everyone at the party — at least forty people some of them gatecrashers . |
| 10 | I retained a friendship for George Brown , although he regarded me with rather dubious approval because of my omission to drink anything at any dinner party . |
| 11 | It was not unusual for young ladies to do nothing at all ; unless they occupied themselves with Berlin woolwork or the making of shell boxes , there was practically nothing genteel to do . |
| 12 | Their aspiration to hold everyone at the ethical level of the enlightened bourgeoisie encountered the strong disapproval of Friedrich Nietzsche , who wrote under the heading : G. Eliot — |
| 13 | It is worth encouraging children to eat something at breakfast because they have high calorie and nutrient needs . |
| 14 | Questioning Ferdinando when next she saw him she grew exasperated with his inability to notice anything at all . |
| 15 | Do not stand on chairs to reach something at ceiling level . |
| 16 | Nenna might have added to her list of things that men do better than women their ability to do nothing at all in an unhurried manner . |
| 17 | He has no ability to move anything at all . |
| 18 | However , that is not an accusation that I could level at the Leader of the Opposition , as he has not found time to say anything at all about the environment — true or false . |
| 19 | It had been too speedily initiated for he had not had time to construct anything at all plausible . |