Example sentences of "[pers pn] [adv prt] at a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Making a stock of suitable pictures and then sending them in at a steady trickle to the news editor throughout the year gives your children 's work a good chance of being chosen . |
| 2 | Anyone finding them should hand them in at a police station or to any officer he said . |
| 3 | He takes me in at a glance and starts peering around the room , checking out the sofa , examining the ceiling . |
| 4 | And he says , sells his off at a quarter of a million , per cube . |
| 5 | ‘ So as they can whip them off at a moment 's notice ! ’ he hissed . |
| 6 | The bus letting me off at a convenient corner in the city , I walked to the Sheraton and from a telephone there spoke to Mrs Baudelaire . |
| 7 | Yeah but they , will they , they wo n't sell you on at a discount will they ? |
| 8 | ‘ I should be taking you on at a week 's notice . |
| 9 | Remember that , as with tools for any kind of job , there are good tools and not-so-good tools and if you buy poor quality tools , they may let you down at a vital time . |
| 10 | If they ca n't you can either stay at the flat or else I 'll give you some money and drop you off at a hotel . ’ |
| 11 | It can then call you back at a specified number . |
| 12 | The late and sadly missed Roy Kinnear and Kenneth Williams would always help you out at a moment 's notice , and not only that , they 'd come up with a great performance . |
| 13 | The human race is eating them up at a staggering rate . |
| 14 | The shares will have been borrowed and sold in the hope and expectation of buying them back at a lower price . |
| 15 | Rather they preferred to farm them out at a fixed rent , at leases which , in the fourteenth century , became progressively longer , and to enjoy the freedom to take up offices or to serve in the army . |
| 16 | If I was to give my life to this orchestra then I could not allow that someone throw me out at a moment 's notice . |
| 17 | Branson took him in at a glance . |
| 18 | The lean hand gripping his arm thrust him in at a door in the long encrustation of buildings that clung to the curtain wall on the sunny side , where the best light fell and the day lingered longest . |
| 19 | In the early hours of 9th January , 1969 , Vigilant sighted the suspect vessel entering the River Swale near the Isle of Sheppey and followed her in at a safe distance . |
| 20 | For , after switching on power , it carries him along at a leisurely 10mph . |
| 21 | Yeah well that 's not so bad as long as you can get her down at a reasonable hour and get to sleep . |
| 22 | Blind panic sent her off at a stumbling run . |
| 23 | He had said hardly anything since we had picked him up at a draughty street corner where the Hanko road leaves Helsinki . |
| 24 | In The Desert Rats as the young English captain who put paid to that upstart Rommel by turning him back at a crucial moment in the whole North African Campaign ( set in Palm Springs ) , he was fine . |
| 25 | He handed it over at a rendezvous — but Elizabeth was kept in her captor 's car boot for another two hours before being dumped . |
| 26 | The pair had star quality written all over their faces as they hammed it up at a Buddy Holly tribute . |
| 27 | Like a small child being told by stern parent she picked up the drink and tossed it back at a gulp . |
| 28 | Anyway , he left what should have been my share to Matthew on condition that I was able to lease it back at a nominal rental . |
| 29 | Is my hon. Friend aware that the main barrier to CHP is that producers have to sell their electricity to the pool and then buy it back at a much higher — an uplift price ? |
| 30 | Chiswell Street is quiet and sedate nowadays but two hundred years ago it was the powerhouse for the Whitbread brewery which churned out Porter , the dark beer named after the London market porters who knocked it back at a fearsome rate early in the morning . |