Example sentences of "[verb] [adv prt] at [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Webb has constantly said he is happy to carry on at Old Trafford and fight for his place . |
| 2 | In the Gaza Strip , hundreds of women held a sit in at Red Cross headquarters in Gaza City and in Khan Yunis . |
| 3 | We find customers prefer to sit down at individual desks and discuss their requirements . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ The action goes along at break-neck velocity to reach its conclusion and so there is no problem with the audience fidgeting . ’ |
| 5 | Thus tree rings are differentiated by the types , density and size of cell laid down at different times of the year ; varves by the gradation in particle size resulting from sedimentation of debris released into rivers and carried to lakes by the annual melt of glaciers ; and ice core layers by differences in dust content and acidity . |
| 6 | Right it is a hundred miles from King 's Lynn to London , the train takes two hours to do the journey the train does not go at a constant speed , it speeds up sometimes and slows down at other times it also stops at stations on the way and on once of course as it , as it 's stopping it 's going more and more slowly and as it 's er moving off again it starts slowly and starts to go quickly but because it takes two hours in all the train goes a hundred miles in two hours we say its average speed for the journey is fifty miles per hour . |
| 7 | They gradually caught on at other establishments , although not on such a substantial scale . |
| 8 | Also available from Bisque is the battery-powered , remote-control Bagno-Stat , which allows you to pre-set the towel radiator heater to come on at specific times and maintain required temperatures . |
| 9 | At times like that , you call on your mates , and Kenny Everett kindly got us out of a spot of trouble there and agreed to come on at short notice . |
| 10 | SPURS boss Terry Venables looks down at controversial new skipper Neil Ruddock , sent off during Saturday 's 2-2 draw against Palace . |
| 11 | And apply it to say driving along at steady speeds , then you can work a lot of it out for yourself . |
| 12 | " And let it be said , " Harry went on , " now we 're talking straight , that Miss Jennifer here can forget all the Romish ideas she was fed on down at Roscarrock Hall and start eating Protestant pie , which she 'll find suits a Cornish stomach a sight better than all that hocus-pocus-nomminy-domminy rubbish they peddle down at Holy Joe 's . |
| 13 | He was chased out over the Adriatic by fighters and was obliged to come down at Tatoi airport near Athens . |
| 14 | In that early ‘ moment ’ , rock 'n' roll was an important intervention though carried through at varying levels of conscious awareness . |
| 15 | In addition , Alexander Hardinge , who had replaced Wigram as private secretary to the King and who constantly saw his loyalty as lying with the institution and not with the person , was available to come over at short notice and did so . |
| 16 | But the moment Vincente 's back was turned the ball tended to squirt off at eccentric angles — or , worse , refuse to move at all . |
| 17 | The Government can not be unaware that women are frightened to travel alone at night in isolated places , to wait in bus depots where no staff are present , or to be dropped off at bus-rail links at isolated railway stations where there is no one to guard them against possible danger . |
| 18 | It came a cropper in 1990 and had to be cut up and sold off , with the remains ending up at Amstral Workstation Solutions Ltd , a value added reseller operation . |
| 19 | One point at issue for Yugoslav leaders was the extent to which current developments were damaging the relationship built up at federal level with the European Communities ( EC ) . |
| 20 | One age 's misfortune is another 's good luck and a result of this flight from urban squalor and an exceptionally turbulent working class was that , in the early 20th century , when the new Bristol University was looking to expand , there was a whole chain of classical villas with their attendant small parks all waiting to be picked up at knock-down prices . |
| 21 | It appeared to be an occupational hazard , walking down dark and dingy — or even brightly lit — corridors , waiting for strange creatures to pounce out at unexpected moments . |
| 22 | Do not invest money which you may need back at short notice . |
| 23 | Material which starts out at regional may also go on to be used on the national networks . |
| 24 | Throughout the east Midlands ash trees were planted along the hedges , less often the elm , usually spaced out at wide intervals . |
| 25 | Each session is spaced out at monthly intervals . |
| 26 | We 've got a pile to give away to the first 20 correct answers ( picked out at random ) to the question : which of these movies was also directed by Van Sant ? a Drugstore Cowboy . |
| 27 | He will again line out at left half forward , the position many observers regard as his best . |
| 28 | , Renewal lung function tests are to be carried out at regular intervals . |
| 29 | In terms of scientific choice , for example , it is possible to establish the value placed upon a country 's contribution to high-energy physics , and to decide whether or not such research should be supported , but it would be difficult to measure the individual contributions made by isolated single researchers from small departments in the UK , when the major part of their work is carried out at international centres in Geneva , or California . |
| 30 | It is unfortunate , therefore , that the range of economic services carried out at individual small towns is never easy to define . |