Example sentences of "[adv prt] at [adj] [conj] " in BNC.

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1 But at least then we 're gon na be ready are n't we if we put his name down at four or five schools in the area .
2 He brings it down at four and five o'clock ,
3 He had not quietened down at all as he had grown older — far from it — and could not now be still for a single moment .
4 would n't knock he would n't come down at all and then the everywhere else were knock some off if the market 's not very good at the moment .
5 Well he , if he co if he 'd have come down my wa he come down at eight or nine o'clock the shops would have been shut .
6 She 'd just er put him down at ten and , and that , that was that .
7 The cones are now all flowing with pitch , and my hands are soon so covered with it that I can not easily cast down my booty when I would , it sticks to my fingers so ; and when I get down at last and have picked them up , I can not touch my basket with such hands but carry it on my arm , nor can I pick up my coat which I have taken off unless with my teeth — or else I kick it up and catch it on my arm .
8 With me in the studio is journalist , Dorothy Grace Elder who sixteen months ago weighed in at fourteen and a half and was perfectly happy with it .
9 Elaine tripped in at four-thirty and George was well and truly asleep .
10 I mean she can come in at two if she likes but erm bu if she 's gon na be out , I mean she can come in at quarter past five .
11 Every window was black with paint and there was no air coming in at all and you walk in between very very hot ovens and the sweat was lashing down your back .
12 Is that for for trapping it in or tuning it in at all or a different thing ?
13 Checking a positive climb and flicking up the quick-retracting gear I concentrated on the slow process of building speed , getting the flaps in at 130 and maintaining a gentle increase in height with steady acceleration to 170 knots , when the nose can be raised for 3,000 fpm to show on the VSI as she really starts to go .
14 I worked for a , for a like a , it 's a money brokers in , in London but exactly the same stockbroking , and it was exactly like the film , you know , they had this , they had this room , like they had one of those long rooms as well you know with all the desks and computers and stuff but they had this one enclosed off room where all the dealers sat round this massive like circular console type table , and like they were all under thirty but like overweight , all c driving Porsches and taking coke and shit like this and right they just , they got into the office at something like six in the morning like I 'd get in at nine and I 'd be , be wandering around they 'd just have their trousers open , shoes off ,
15 The company claims that the TCP/IP kernel weighs in at less than 28Kb .
16 At £699 , the Olivetti PG404 clocks in at less than half the price of the LaserJet 4 , and it ai n't half bad .
17 Work in progress may be agreed to be brought in at less than its face value to reflect expenses incurred during the period between bill delivery and payment .
18 ‘ A Hollywood movie about two cops who do n't get along at first but are thrown together on a case involving drugs , foreigners , lots of fights and guns and which ends up with them respecting each other and winning .
19 Turning things over at random and hoping to stumble on the sought object usually works when the space to be searched is small .
20 Some of her family and friends who knew that her marriage was unsuccessful may assume that her feelings about her husband 's death could only be those of relief that their life together is over at last and that she is now free to seek a better future for herself ; not realising that if a woman has lived with a man for many years , unless he has treated her with extreme cruelty , and shown her no love at all throughout the whole of their marriage , some kind of bond is bound to have existed between them , and that even if he left her with only a handful of good memories of times they spent together , it is likely that she may want to hold on to them , cherish them , and even build upon them .
21 It , we never sort of slackened off at all and in those days there was so much brass to be cleaned and scrubbing to be done and cleaning .
22 Say , well I 'm awfully sorry I 'm off at five but I got to be back at eight .
23 We kicked off at eleven and went on till three and there were I think six people stuffing er in the course of the day Bob Andy Mark and myself and Chris .
24 I mean , by the time you 'd set off walking you could set off at eleven and walk there till twelve go in there till two then you
25 That was the dose , a and I want to stress also that I did n't start off at eighty milligrams , I started off at two and half which I think is important and
26 As the light went , leaving its afterglow on his blind eyes , he was vaguely distracted by a ringing sound , far off at first but closer with every repetition .
27 Then you turned thirty , started to nod off at ten-thirty and had attacks of the Blue Spots when you ran up a flight of stairs .
28 ‘ He just makes a mockery of those who write players off at 32 or say the Premier League is for young athletes .
29 In evolutionary game theory , we imagine a population of animals pairing off at random and playing this game .
30 The first race is off at 1.49 and the highlight of the afternoon 's 12-race programme looks to be a 631 metres handicap , when Eddie McDermott 's excellent stayer , Too Fast , will be off scratch , giving top-marker Lee Anns Tramp 12 metres start .
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