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Example sentences of "[adv prt] at some [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1	She would not explain herself to Luke Scott , because to do so would mean he mattered to her , and to let him matter in even the smallest way was to make herself vulnerable — to let him in at some level , and she had an intuitive sense of the havoc he could wreak once admitted to the number of those people who mattered in her life in their various ways .
2	This is really a matter of personal preference and the sort of facilities available in your building ( or area because , of course , nearby gas can be piped in at some cost , or use gas from cylinders if you really prefer gas ) .
3	Mains electricity was supposedly going to be brought in at some stage , but God only knew when that would be .
4	Martin and Chase nodded , Bunny buried his head into Santa 's neck and Trippy yelled , ‘ A wise decision , Cap'n Smollett , ’ and struck up Jingle Bells with us all joining in at some point or another .
5	Outside of London , too , generally over the South , the West and the South-east , a decline in real wages set in at some point in the two decades centred on 1760 , as money wages fell behind rising prices .
6	There were six miles of gauntlet to run before reaching the open sea , and some damaged craft limped through this passage while others were still able to set off at some speed , making smoke cover with their special equipment .
7	It starts off at some value here and it goes down until eventually when it 's done a certain number of miles the car 's worth nothing .
8	A Sergeant with a crudely reconstructed pink blob of a nose — obviously bitten off at some stage in his professional or previous career — sat at a damascened bronze data-desk stained green with cupreous patina .
9	She was calm , her breathing even , she had possibly dozed off at some time , a thought she found quite odd .
10	The Spidergobs had once caught a technerd to have fun with , a technerd who could savvy scumlingo , and who 'd screamed about how all his gang cousins had been taken into the Troopies up at some gateway fortress where the land-trains left , whatever those were .
11	The towns which thus sprung up at some railway centres are examples of the way in which individuality was lost , and lately the housing estate has spread a new uniformity even more widely over the country .
12	Most pregnant mothers are told to relax and put their feet up at some point every day — and many of them had done so while watching these television programmes .
13	But there are few women and even fewer men who do n't slip up at some point in their lives , in thought if not in deed .
14	After a while I stopped telling myself I was n't going to be sick , and — resigned to the fact that I was going to have to throw up at some point — kept telling myself instead that I 'd manage to hold it in until I was back in the flat , and so do it in private , rather than into the gutter in front of people .
15	Anyway , I just thought I 'd write to suggest that we meet up at some point ; I do enjoy trying to get to know some of my cousins , especially when they 're not hundreds of miles away .
16	I mean you get to this stage where a certain age you can say no you 're not having it because they 've got to start to grow up at some point and she likes using the felt tips and she 's usually not too bad with them
17	‘ I hope we can all meet up at some time in the future , ’ says Tyler , ‘ and have a tap-dance . ’
18	After taking a series of measurements I put a numbered ring on each bird 's leg so that if one came to grief and was picked up at some time in the future , its identity could be established .
19	group , erm , must take those up at some stage and and transfer them to the wall .
20	Another is that they do n't shove the gear up on their dining-room walls ; you ca n't have a cop or two show up at some billionaire 's apartment in Sutton Place and demand to go through the strongroom .
21	At the year end the combined membership reached 308 thus exceeding the magic 300 , yet the trading surplus was only £15 , with a mere £130 on capital account , although new greens at the 6th and 8th had been laid out at some cost .
22	Drake at rest distinctive with shortish bill , chestnut head , buff crown , grey underparts and white line on wing ; in flight can be picked out at some distance by conspicuous white forewing .
23	I suppose this is erm , a caricature , a self portrait this little , I , in fact I was , really actually hilarious as I felt that , I , I , do n't actually know an awful lot about Gaugin , but if , if I knew nothing about him at all , I would of thought he was having a bit of joke of himself with this , but er , being the person that he was I ca n't image that he had that quality , that , I do n't believe he would be laughing at himself , erm , erm , the symbolism erm and conflict of this painting its dazzles me more than , than the colour or at least as much as the colours in it , but there 's a , there 's a half eaten , well it is n't half eaten , but there 's half an apple at the top and , and that was the , the way into me finally , for , for writing about this , this again is a shopping list , I call it a shopping list , this is just visual images that , that will be opened out at some point and turn it into something , and my images were erm Shoulders of the matador smoking snakes , dare to bit an apple , see one half gone and still I wear a halo intact , that I 'm sure I 've completely wrong about him as a , a person , but as the painting that 's obviously something else , erm , I found that one of the things that were he 's , I , I think probably that everybody who writes is that you 'll come to a point when you ca n't write , you stop writing , you have n't got anything you want to write about , or your frightened of writing , and I devise exercises so that , that does n't happened to me , I think writing is like any skill you have to keep doing it to be able to do it , its , you , some of it is a game and the rest of it is hard work , and one of the exercises I , I delighted using erm a portrait of a woman erm , its about erm the er still life , its the back one , yes this one here , I have , I , I hope to use this as a writing exercise I found the , the maths in this and the colour of the piece of fruit in the background , very interesting because most of the colours to me seem a , a lot less vibrant then many of his other paintings , and so they , they attracted me and have a , a strong sense of erm , er a hidden desire in that and so it , to use it as a writing exercise which I intend doing , it will be able about a situation of character 's with erm something that 's hidden , some desire , I do n't , the , not even spoke about to themselves or , or generally , erm I like to sort of say that came from those two little , just this amounts of colour which seemed to be saying such a lot
24	But he had to find out at some stage , did n't he ? ’
25	Well , apparently what 's happened there , I do know , because erm , one or two of the people who looked at it got involved , and whereas the property started out at some figure in the high hun hundred and fifty , hundred and eighty thousand , something like that .
26	The philosophy and system of pastoral care were spelt out at some length and a few pages were devoted to the issue of pupils ' individual needs .
27	The rationale for this was set out at some length :
28	We would like the photo back at some time but after nearly 40 years , time is not of the essence .
29	For each day there is a diet sheet , more interesting key facts , and a weight and symptom chart for your to complete as you did for Stage I. It is vital that you keep this chart up to date : you will undoubtedly need to refer back at some point during the next few weeks , so the records are nothing short of vital !
30	In section 11.3 it was stressed that the Laplace transform of a signal is pertinent to practical situations in which the signal is switched on at some instant .