Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] at any " in BNC.
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| 1 | For most Southern advertisers and agencies , however , 1993 will be a year of hanging on at any cost . |
| 2 | It was cold in the stadium and a leaden sky threatened to weep down at any moment on the small crowd assembled below . |
| 3 | ‘ We must hope before you go to Oxford mother will have relented enough at any rate to make writing to you possible . ’ |
| 4 | Patrick squirmed uncomfortably in the jumper and the trousers , which were at least two sizes too large for him — he felt as if they were going to fall down at any moment . |
| 5 | If the investment managers had to come in they could have come in at any time . |
| 6 | A fill can be dropped in at any time while the pattern is playing . |
| 7 | A fill can be dropped in at any time while the pattern is playing . |
| 8 | Now a man may marry his stepmother or stepdaughter , or a woman her stepfather or stepson , provided that the younger person is aged at least 21 and has not at any time before reaching the age of 18 lived as a child of the family of the older person . |
| 9 | The gap between the two , although only a few metres wide , is deep enough for my boat to pass through at any state of tide . |
| 10 | Another girl , who looked wretchedly unhappy and as if she might be going to fade away at any moment , practically had a miscarriage on stage one night as a result of some pills she 'd been made to take by her awful lout of a lover . |
| 11 | Breathlessly , Jenny poured out the news that the rear offside wheel of Miss Clinton 's car was loose , likely to come off at any moment , sooner or later certain to come off . |
| 12 | Like Miss Honey , she felt sure both ears were going to come off at any moment with all the weight that was on them . |
| 13 | Some pests are large enough to be gathered and destroyed by hand : caterpillars can be picked off at any time , while slugs and snails around vulnerable plants are easily collected by torchlight on moist evenings . |
| 14 | I do n't know if that 's come up at any point . |
| 15 | She realised she was gripping the gun with two hands and had trained it on his chest , as if she expected him to leap up at any moment and lunge at her . |
| 16 | It was open to her to come back at any time . |
| 17 | With the insertion of implants it could be carried out at any age , but the sensible option would be prophylactic mastectomy either at the completion of her family or at the menopause . ’ |
| 18 | It can be carried out at any time when you feel the need , for example , when you are near anybody with a cold or ‘ flu ; when you are experiencing any form of fear ; when others are indulging in negative emotions ; in noisy surroundings ; first thing in the morning and last thing at night ; after meditating or giving intuitive aromatherapy massage . |
| 19 | They operate in basically the same way , but VITC coding has to be recorded onto the tape ( of course without being visible in the picture ) , at the time of shooting or while being copied onto a second tape ; RCTC coding on the other hand can be carried out at any stage of the editing process , and so is the more flexible of the two systems . |
| 20 | It defines the project timescales and priority to enable individual workloads within the group to be planned through DOPACS , and it also important n needed-by dates , the milestones , within the project , which again through DOPACS enables checks on the physical and financial progress to be carried out at any time . |
| 21 | The case was about the liberty of the press to comment freely at any price . |
| 22 | The taxi was clattering away and I thought it would fall apart at any moment . |
| 23 | You know perfectly well that your husband 's mother lives at a considerable distance , in point of fact in a suburb of Sheffield , and that she has never at any time offered to look after your children . " |
| 24 | The County Council has never at any time considered a paper or come to a conclusion erm on the preferred general location for the new settlement . |
| 25 | In some houses the fire grate was loose in the wall and looked liable to fall away at any moment … perhaps when full of live coals and with a pan of boiling water . |
| 26 | Whenever I hear a man being witty or sensible or kindly or civilized I think : the qualities which now seem so much a part of this man could be stripped away at any time , and there would be left just a man who suffered and who fought with his suffering like an animal . |
| 27 | I 'm equally confident that the higher direction of MI5 and those operating today do not have anything to do with this , nor have they done so at any time . |
| 28 | If Sabine had wanted to break away and work on her own she could have done so at any time . |
| 29 | If he had ever wanted to see her socially he could have done so at any time , but there had been only chance meetings since his marriage . |
| 30 | A It can do so at any time . |