Example sentences of "[adv prt] at a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yeah well that 's not so bad as long as you can get her down at a reasonable hour and get to sleep . |
| 2 | We had to put the babies down at a certain time and leave them — it was horrible . |
| 3 | The problem was soon overcome by always having the camera a couple of inches or so above the fish , thus pointing the camera down at a small angle to the aquarium glass , while the adjustable flash head was directed straight ahead . |
| 4 | On the relief the girl Athena , without aegis or shield ( she is shown now even without helmet , or with it in her hand ) leans on her spear , hand on hip , looking down at a small stele . |
| 5 | So he turned into Gambrinus 's and sat himself down at a small ironwork and marble table , and asked for some water . |
| 6 | The bridal couple got down at a tiny village of low mud houses . |
| 7 | As a patient bandaged from head to foot , Crawford had to deliver only one line , but he forgot it , lifted the bed sheet to look down at a prompt card and uttered the immortal words , ‘ Have you seen this , nurse ? ’ |
| 8 | As the hammer came down at a then-record $53.9 million , Mr Payson whooped ‘ I think he 'd be happy with that ’ , referring to Van Gogh , who killed himself a year after completing Irises , aged 37 . |
| 9 | They sat down at a low table in the corner , under a poster for the Campus Crèche and facing posters for the Pregnancy Advisory Service — ‘ A woman has a right to decide about her own body . |
| 10 | The arrow tip came free and I lay on my side in frightful suffering weakness , looking down at a sharp black point sticking out from scarlet wool . |
| 11 | In the shopping centre , I was gratified to see my name up on the Day 's Attractions board , and I sat down at a prepared place by the side of the stage . |
| 12 | Dazed , I looked down at a little girl with wide , solemn eyes . |
| 13 | Once in her suite of rooms she sat down at a little Louis Quinze escritoire , its pale grey panels painted with carnations and pinks , and wrote a short letter to her faithless lover , asking him to call on her urgently at the embassy at eleven the next morning . |
| 14 | Holly stood beside a poorly dug hole and he looked down at a T-shaped junction of pipes and saw that the screw-fastened aperture that gave access to the pipe join and its subsidiary were swathed in doth and knotted around in plastic sheeting . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | They had sat opposite each other in a compartment crowded with Able Seamen , he watching the darkening fields flying outside the window and Bunny staring down at a single sheet of notepaper , pale blue in colour , which he held on his jigging knee and from whose fold poked a sprig of crab apple in bloom . |
| 17 | I arrived just after dinner at night , so we were taken into the kitchen and sat down at a huge table on which were chicken legs , lamb chops , steak , dishes of three or four veg and told to help ourselves and did we ! |
| 18 | Another few totters and another series of hasty hoppity-skips , and they were looking down at a ramshackle wooden building which sat in a hollow among yellow bushes of gorse . |
| 19 | The farmer and I went over and gazed down at a circular black object about half an inch across floating on the surface of the milk . |
| 20 | Between the many breaks in the cloud the rays of a thin evening sun shafted down at an acute angle to spotlight the pastoral scene . |
| 21 | Plainly there are different degrees of misbehaviour and the partners will not readily resort to the extreme sanction of expulsion , but it is in the interests of the firm that a tendency to depart from proper professional standards be investigated and warnings handed down at an early stage before serious harm is done . |
| 22 | The government could have clamped down at an early stage with tough deflationary policies . |
| 23 | Our UK customers first began to look shaky and soon afterwards began to shut down at an alarming rate . |
| 24 | But with the industry in recession , and record sales dropping , the hitherto dependable cashflow was trickling down at an alarming rate . |
| 25 | For about fifteen minutes he did nothing but sit there contentedly , sipping his coffee and watching their restless , flickering scene around him through half-open eyes : the tall , bearded man with a cigar and a fatuous grin who walked up and down at an unvarying even pace like a clockwork soldier , never looking at anybody ; the plump ageing layabout in a Gestapo officers leather coat and dark glasses holding court outside the door of the cafe , trading secrets and scandal with his men friends , assessing the passers-by as thought they were for sale , calling after women and making hour-glass gestures with his hairy gold-ringed hands ; a frail old man bent like an S , with a crazy harmless expression and a transistor radio pressed to his ear walking with the exaggerated urgency of those who have nowhere to go ; slim Africans with leatherwork belts and bangles laid out on a piece of cloth ; a Gypsy child sitting n the cold stone playing the same four note again and again on a cheap concertina ; two foreigners with guitars an a small crowd around them ; a beggar with his shirt pulled down over one shoulder to reveal the stump of an amputated arm ; a pudgy shapeless women with an open suitcase full of cigarette lighters and bootleg cassettes ; the two Nordic girls at the next table , basking half-naked in the weak March sun as though this might be the last time it appeared this year . |
| 26 | Daughter Laura weighed in at a healthy 61b 4oz . |
| 27 | As caries sets in at a weak point in the tooth 's enamel and spreads to rot the whole tooth , so an appeal to the crown could trigger the decay of local autonomy . |
| 28 | You had to be in at a certain time you know , you had very standard cuisine , it was , it had become if you like , ridiculed in jokes and things of this nature . |
| 29 | To come somewhere like this would have been better , somewhere where I had to be in at a certain time , where I could n't have certain people come in . |
| 30 | As every girl has her own individual subjects , the teaching is on a one-to-one basis , and each has cards showing her particular set work which has to be in at a certain time . |