Example sentences of "[verb] at [adj] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On Thursday 31 April 700 Lisbon soldiers disembarked at Caniçal and , aided by fog , took the town of Machico and forced the rebels into the hills to the west . |
| 2 | Harlow , however , hit back to square at 17-17 and after the pair had traded singles on the next two ends , a finishing burst of three singles for the Englishman gave him the title . |
| 3 | I I 'm grateful I I I 'm winding up that we on this side we do believe that these additional six seats are very important because we believe that the European parliament elections are going to be very important and fighting them on these new boundaries with the minimum of delay in spite of the delay that had been caused by the government' incompetence , we regard as very important , we regard this debate tonight as very important to approve these orders because we can not so far work out whether the government will be fighting the er the whole campaign on the basis of back to basics while the E P P will be doing it on the basis of some other manifesto , vorsprung durch technik or whatever it might be , and they 'll be trying to merge those into two slogans of o of er vorsprung durch basics or or whatever it might be and this we do not know at all whether the government want to be part of Europe and whether their back benchers are gon na be willing to cooperate with the European peoples party or they take the money from the European peoples party but they do n't want to participate with them in the manifesto . |
| 4 | Thus : ‘ ABOUT NECHAEV [ Peter Verkhovensky ] : NECHAEV PLAYS TWO ROLES , THE SECOND OF WHICH I , THE CHRONICLER , DO N'T KNOW AT ALL AND AM NOT PRESENTING . ’ |
| 5 | Health care professionals have a vital role to play in accident prevention , though the problem needs to be tackled by multidisciplinary effort , organised at national and international levels . |
| 6 | Seb did not doubt at all that the man riding Vulcan was Meredith Putt , even though he had been masked . |
| 7 | Psychological stress : patients were classified dichotomously by their physicians as unstressed or stressed ( stressed at one or more follow up appointments ) ; |
| 8 | He dined at three and fished with Burkett and his daughter until the evening light finally wilted , not to darkness , it was too northerly for that , but to that active dusk in which motes of light seemed pleased to elude the half-hearted grapplings of black night . |
| 9 | Work for older women was as badly paid , but for many it was more of a gain because they had not earned at all while their children were young . |
| 10 | Rufus started laughing at that and said all the doors in his life were strictly never kept closed . |
| 11 | Yes , I 'm laughing at that because I know Kenny Dalglish will laugh when he reads it . |
| 12 | And so she rose at six and bathed , tapped on Lucy 's door at seven , to a clear ringing ‘ Come in ! ’ |
| 13 | We rose at five-thirty and breakfasted outside on fresh mangoes . |
| 14 | The level of premium paid to insure against an event depends obviously upon the likelihood or risk of the event occurring at all and the level of compensation or benefit to be paid when it does . |
| 15 | Dysuria and urethral discharge are the main presenting symptoms , appearing anything from one to six weeks after catching the infection , with the majority occurring at two or three weeks . |
| 16 | If assets are included at other than historical cost amount , disclose : |
| 17 | If assets are included at other than historical cost amount , show : historical cost , or difference between historical cost amount and balance sheet amount . |
| 18 | ‘ The recognizable direction of social development ’ , she concluded , ‘ has made it clear to me that there is no social class in Poland that has at one and the same time both an interest in , and an ability to achieve , the restoration of Poland ’ . |
| 19 | It currently stands at 2 and a half miles . |
| 20 | I just ca n't see it ending at all and I do n't know what 'll happen when John gets out . |
| 21 | I do not consider this ethical in treatment , as I believe that everyone should be fully cognizant of what is happening at each and every stage . |
| 22 | ‘ Tim , it could be happening at last although the pain seems in the wrong place . ’ |
| 23 | The Magyars behaved at first as Asiatic nomads are supposed to , by ravaging across Germany . |
| 24 | The patent contains eight pages of mathematical formulae which purport to prove that a microphone will have much better directional characteristics if the holes are spaced at irregular or non-linear intervals . |
| 25 | So the villages are spaced at 3 or 4 km intervals along the middle courses of the valleys . |
| 26 | The bell rings at 8.45 and we all gather at the door to our tutor base . |
| 27 | It was silly to have come at all if she was going to feel so shaky and helpless . |
| 28 | They would fill the tanker from there and we go round the quarry filling the front machines , but erm they say at five or six thousand gallons has been emptied out of that er dump . |
| 29 | The revival of cask ale has created a growing need for traditional English hop varieties and , thanks to a good summer — wet at first and then hot and sunny — there will be a bumper harvest this year . |
| 30 | The United pilots ' union had attempted unsuccessfully to finance a similar bid a year ago when the airline was trading at less than half the final sale price . |