Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] at [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She became paralysed at sixteen , the day after undergoing a routine operation on her jaw at Poole General Hospital . |
| 2 | On the one hand , some clients may prefer a structured day with routine care , which everyone receives given at set times , very probably by a succession of nurses . |
| 3 | Collapse breccias , however , are not related to any particular facies and potential reservoirs resulting from this process are most likely to be found around structural highs that became exposed at various times since , the Zechstein . |
| 4 | This change in the law was forced on the government by the European Court of Justice which decided in favour of a woman who did not want to retire at 60 . |
| 5 | He wanted her to go , and she felt afraid as she realised that she did not want to go at all . |
| 6 | Additionally , in the case of a complete failure to perform to contract at all , the buyer will usually have the right to go elsewhere to a third party for the same goods and to charge the seller for any increase in the price paid to the third party over that payable to the seller . |
| 7 | Tony Brough ( the Principal ) and I sat at High Table , but it was very democratic because the students also took it in turns to sit at High Table — and to be invited to the Principal 's office for pre-dinner drinks ! |
| 8 | ‘ But my life never really started at any stage — which I know you wo n't believe , but it 's true — so it never really got stopped at any point . |
| 9 | Steve , asked to sit at another table , astonished their host , Lord McAlpine , with the reply : ‘ Mah woman and I sit together . ’ |
| 10 | The British tend to sneer at American house-building methods . |
| 11 | Unlike Descartes , who felt the need to prove their existence , and Malebranche , who was certain he could not , Locke simply had no doubt that material things existed and caused our ideas : ‘ The actual receiving of ideas from without … makes us know , that something doth exist at that time without us , which causes that idea in us . ’ |
| 12 | Well , I say , he tend to go at eleven and three , so think about it . |
| 13 | We suggest you find out where your newly-acquired friends and acquaintances tend to gather at different times of the day . |
| 14 | No matter where you finally wind up in the advertising business , you will want to work at some stage in an agency to gain real insight into advertising and acquire first-rate skills ( and , hopefully , reputation ) that puts wheels under your career . |
| 15 | The Mini Master failed to appear at last year 's Oshkosh because one of the 582 engines failed at 6500 ft 30 minutes after take-off from San Marcos , Texas . |
| 16 | The argument in favour of plumping looks at first sight convincing enough : in the later stages of the count your own party will stand a chance of benefiting from the transferred lower preferences expressed by supporters of other parties , whilst those parties will not benefit from the transferred lower preferences of your own supporters since they wo n't have expressed any . |
| 17 | They agreed to meet at ten-thirty the following day at the Archdeaconry . |
| 18 | She had n't , and they agreed to meet at seven . |
| 19 | It means that the stressed syllables in an utterance tend to come at regular intervals with a varying number of less stressed syllables in between . |
| 20 | One old petrol stove clogged up and failed to work at all . |
| 21 | However , if you intend to work at this ‘ subtle ’ level all the time , it may be helpful to learn one or two ‘ psychic protection ’ techniques ( see Chapter 7 ) . |
| 22 | We planned to come at four o'clock . |
| 23 | They passed , apparently oblivious , intent only on their own business ; but hardly a soul in the village failed to pass at some time during that day , and not one missed a detail of what was there to be seen . |
| 24 | Mine do n't want to come at all , my dad said good god that sounds like a waste of time . |
| 25 | The bike was in his space when she got to work at eight . |
| 26 | For daring to come at all , she was cut from the Kirov team . |
| 27 | Suddenly , there facing you , is the person you least want to see at that moment . |
| 28 | Particularly when we 're trying to get juveniles into the club I mean they want to go at ten possibly you owe them not starting till |
| 29 | In contrast to these animals , many invertebrates do not need to accommodate at all . |
| 30 | Dutch police have the power to confiscate a vehicle found speeding at 70 kilometres per hour more than the legal level . |