Example sentences of "[vb base] [adv] at [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I do intend to er to attend inaugural meetings with each of the C P O s er with a view to looking I mean obviously at some stages you said to me that I would probably have to attend at short notice |
| 2 | A few checks will soon show which tags ( if any ) connect together at each position of the switch . |
| 3 | Ankles remain together at all times and feet should be over the knees . |
| 4 | First , the flowers themselves should be suitable for pressing — there is no point in offering to press someone 's wedding flowers when their bouquet consists of , say , chrysanthemums , pale carnations , large daisies or gerberas , since none of these flowers press successfully at all . |
| 5 | The men sleep together at one end of the dwelling , on a raised ledge covered with more clean straw which , of course , must be brought with them . |
| 6 | One can think of these fluctuations as pairs of particles of light or gravity that appear together at some time , move apart , and then come together again and annihilate each other . |
| 7 | Each of several characters is followed through twenty-four hours and their lives touch only at certain points in the narrative . |
| 8 | Say aloud at normal speed : ‘ Me th ylated sp ri ts are not o ft en e ff erve sc ent , are th ey ? ’ |
| 9 | The society is in gridlock and people snatch fitfully at such symbols before realising their inadequacy to the situation . |
| 10 | He wondered what he would do if he could n't get into the house … well , he supposed he could go back to Joseph 's place , spend the night there and then hurry home at first light , when the servants would be up . |
| 11 | Restrictions on silviculture in the tropics are most striking in the area of soil properties ; for example , the pisolites of parts of West Africa are some 10 m deep with no obvious horizons and , although trees grow well at first , they later collapse and the removal of the forest leads to desolation resembling a gravel pit . |
| 12 | Other members of the group shift awkwardly at this picture of Arcadia in Southall , until an economist announces coldly that ‘ it is axiomatic that anything the state does it does worse than the private sector . ’ |
| 13 | Now , Dr. Briant , suppose we plan the conference for — say tomorrow at ten ? |
| 14 | Cuts in the public sector eat away at one of the few parts of the economy with a relatively even geographical distribution , especially local services ( Massey , 1984 ) . |
| 15 | Pick an open , clear piece of water and close your eyes for small intervals which you gradually make longer at each attempt . |
| 16 | And when you walk aerobically at 4 miles an hour , you will burn around five times more calories than you would being sedentary . |
| 17 | The traffic would force him to slow down , and probably stop altogether at some point . |
| 18 | When two deuterons fuse together at low energy , the neutron is liberated with an energy of 2.45 MeV . |
| 19 | Many animals , from sheep to starlings , breed only at certain times of year — again depending on day length . |
| 20 | Adults ( except Great Skua ) have two distinct plumage phases , dark and light , and the middle feathers of the tail elongated ; in immatures these feathers project scarcely at all . |
| 21 | Flour beetles breed best at 25 C , so you should try to find a warm room or cupboard where you can keep them for 3 or 4 months at least . |
| 22 | COMFORT and quality are the bywords of the newly-opened Haddon show home at Fresh Fields , a new development off Whittle Avenue , Westbrook , Warrington , by Bovis Homes . |
| 23 | ‘ Woe betide if you die before at least those first five years of service ! |
| 24 | Human beliefs and activities change , feelings and responses change hardly at all . |
| 25 | Then , down the stairs , out of the door , look right at front gate , left … |
| 26 | Facilities for homeless people are of course open only at certain times of the day and I had n't the money to go anywhere else . |
| 27 | And I 'd also like to come back on this of closed schools in that if we look only at chronological age , which puts a limit on ‘ O ’ levels , we are shutting doors , because many students — and I see this in the sixth form — are not ready for these examinations at the prescribed age . |
| 28 | In other words , we look separately at old poor people , old rich people , young poor people and young rich people , and calculate in each of the four groups what proportion would be prepared to break the law . |
| 29 | how I look just at this second or anything ! |
| 30 | In the Western world ( though not often in developing countries ) many public library users read recreationally at one time or another , and large numbers of people read in this way almost exclusively . |