Example sentences of "[adv prt] at an [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This time , after I 'd hung up , I laid the phone down at an angle to the receiver tits so he 'd get an engaged tone if he tried again . |
| 2 | The blade came down at an angle on my first finger , but chopped straight through the rest . |
| 3 | Cut the studs so that they are a snug push-fit between head and sole plate , then secure them by skew-nailing ( driving nails in at an angle ) |
| 4 | You will probably find it easiest to slide the mast in at an angle like this until the collar fits neatly underneath the mast gate . |
| 5 | If it wo n't go in stick it in at an angle . |
| 6 | A few lengths were produced and these amateurish efforts were seen by a director of Coles who was passing through Braintree and happened to look in at an art exhibition in the Institute . |
| 7 | If the air-flow at a valve is downwards , it will open to admit it ; if upwards , it will close to entrap it and if it is horizontal from any direction the flap will tilt to allow it through at an angle , gaining aerofoil-type lift from it . |
| 8 | A window at one end gave onto a coal hole ; a little daylight filtered through at an angle from an iron grating in the pavement above . |
| 9 | It meant that she started off at an advantage , for as soon as they imagined they had caused her misery they found that they were only confirming her grim and ribald idea of the way things would always be . |
| 10 | Removal of water through artesian wells is held to be the reason why the tower began going off at an angle soon after building work began in 1174 . |
| 11 | At the top of the fire-back the filling is smoothed off at an angle of about 45° . |
| 12 | If the spacing between the strands is uneven , or if they curve or go off at an angle , the knotting is irregular , and denotes a poor quality rug . |
| 13 | defendant with handicap of 24 hit ball with toe of his golf club , so that it went off at an angle of 30 degrees . |
| 14 | He saw it break its flight over a dell between the dunes , soar vertically and then head off at an angle . |
| 15 | On the corner of the cul-de-sac they go off at an angle do n't they . |
| 16 | A SET of race ace Nigel Mansell 's tyres are to be sold off at an auction next month for Great Ormond Street Children 's Hospital in London . |
| 17 | On the way home we stopped off at an alcohol centre and had a pint . |
| 18 | Someone who turns up at an occasion which is known to be an ordeal for him communicates information whether he wishes to or not . |
| 19 | But a day had come in the Sixties when he was in one of the elephant houses and was staring up at an elephant as it walked neurotically round and round its tiny area when a sudden memory of some of the places he had been kept in during the war had come to him ; no space , no freedom , no life . |
| 20 | He indicated an upright armchair drawn up at an angle to his desk , to which he now returned . |
| 21 | In the living room , Dennis lay across the sofa on his stomach , face flabbed up at an angle on a cushion , mouth gaping . |
| 22 | Caterpillars of geometrid moths not only resemble twigs in the colour and texture of their skin , but they grasp a thin branch with their hind claspers and hold themselves up at an angle so that they look like twigs . |
| 23 | There are few spatial experiences in this country to rank beside that sudden sideways shift from the masculine world of military triumphs and smiling shepherdesses on the Doric frieze of the Royal Fort 's entrance hall into the amazing feminine world of willow-pattern fantasy that swirls up at an angle in the great stairwell . |
| 24 | All the novel is intended to be is a bit of fun — something that you might pick up at an airport and that takes you through the journey in a pleasant fashion . |
| 25 | WELL , WHEN I OFFERED SIR WILFRED MY RESIGNATION , THE OLD BUGGER GAVE ME A SECOND-HAND YACHT HE 'D PICKED UP AT AN AUCTION … |
| 26 | I got him out at an ice cream parlor after a while . |
| 27 | Her left arm by her side , her right elbow out at an angle and her forearm shaking like a pneumatic drill . |
| 28 | Firstly the side rail joints are set out at an angle as the seat increases in width towards the front . |
| 29 | The skunk has a pair of these glands and not only can it vary the strength of each jet according to the side from which you approach but it is even able to twist the nozzle of the gland so that the spray shoots out at an angle . |
| 30 | Just at that moment when everyone was crossing their fingers on her behalf , so she looked up and told Jim that she felt she would do better to play out at an angle . |