Example sentences of "[to-vb] [adj] at the " in BNC.
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| 1 | His bid started to go wrong at the 12th hole and spluttered out at the 17th , the Road Hole , where many an aspiration had been snuffed out in the past . |
| 2 | During the Gulf war , the remnants of the soft left regrouped and began to meet weekly at the Westminster Arms . |
| 3 | Even at sixteen , Will refuses to stand still at the beginning of a season for a presentation , but clams down as the year progresses . |
| 4 | This is sometimes due to a generally secretive approach but it is probably more often because of a fear of being made to appear inadequate at the hands of an experienced interviewer . |
| 5 | Perhaps he could arrange for Anthony to go sick at the last minute . |
| 6 | Not only should the parent feel able to express upset at the child 's behaviour but equally the child needs to be able to do this towards the parent . |
| 7 | Dexter recalled that halfway through the homelessness report Nicola had delivered a short lecture about the appalling conditions in which one family lived while managing to look stunning at the same time . |
| 8 | Harare Dread is due to play live at the Grand Hotel ballroom on April 17 . |
| 9 | With the possible exception of Mrs Major , who has to struggle not to look cheerful at the mention of leaving 10 Downing Street , and Sir Denis Thatcher ( ’ I 'm so bloody glad we 're not doing it this time ’ ) , every good political consort must learn how to be a good loser . |
| 10 | ‘ Was n't that a good day , ’ Finch said , closing his eyes in commemoration and then opening them to look fierce at the effrontery of somebody 's making up his dream . |
| 11 | Those drawers in Conservative party headquarters marked ’ Labour and defence ’ will be opened and their contents taken out to try to undermine Labour at the next general election , but such aspirations will remain unrealised . |
| 12 | M Delors 's appeal for an extra £4 billion to be spent by Brussels on European industry is likely to bulk large at the Lisbon summit in June . |
| 13 | has this property of I you do put a list of accents it 's a good idea to put other at the bottom in case there is |
| 14 | Bearing in mind also that our body clock tends to run slow at the weekend , we will tend to have later nights and lie-ins , all of which cause a slight delay of our body clock . |
| 15 | For more than half the road up you climb between more beech forests — the beech flourishes in these parts because it likes the moisture — and in spring or autumn you get that seasonal effect , whereby the trees that are only starting to turn brown at the foot of the pass are already losing many of their leaves at the top , or alternatively are still half-wintry at the top when already fully greened lower down . |
| 16 | Inexpensive cottons can be hung from rods or poles and left to hang free at the bottom , although they should be caught back over doors and windows with tie-backs . |
| 17 | This makes it harder to wax indignant at the ideas being canvassed in Washington . |
| 18 | When your Fluffy Fluff sweater begins to wear thin at the elbows , just immerse it once more in the solutions . |
| 19 | secondly , pursuing untrustworthy promoters or record companies , if necessary through the courts and on to the enforcement of judgements , deters other business people from trying to get rich at the expense of musicians . |
| 20 | But the alert believer should be aware of the main tendencies to doubt prevalent at the time . |
| 21 | It would be the last straw if her husband tried to get romantic at the wrong time of the month . |
| 22 | I find it easier to get angry at the stuff happening around me these days because I 'm no longer naive enough to think it 'll simply sort itself out . |
| 23 | Planners need a thorough understanding of the subject field to be explored , and its structure in enquiry ; they need to know what materials , print-form or audio-visual , are available , and suitable , and what special problems they may reveal ; they need to have available at the right time suitable equipment , and places where the equipment may be used , and they need to be sure that the student is able to find and make use of all the resources he may need in the periods of the timetable allotted to the activity . |
| 24 | She said she used to get annoyed at the way he tired himself out running round after them , but she obviously thought it was jolly clever of him . ’ |
| 25 | On the thorny issue of when the company can be expected to return to profit , Passera said that the target was to break even in 1994 , and that that would require the company to break even at the operating level this year . |
| 26 | ‘ Why is it , ’ he asks rhetorically , ‘ that musicians in general do n't like to play Berliozz ? they themselves have told me it takes fierce discipline to play the music in true ensemble ; it takes a lot of rehearsal to sound fluent at the tempos Berlioz often requires . |
| 27 | Llanidloes beat the rain and a determined Cound side by four wickets to move clear at the top of the table . |
| 28 | ‘ Dr. Briant wishes me to make clear at the outset that he is not entirely happy that this matter should have become a subject of public discussion . |
| 29 | Mr Bumble began to feel uncomfortable at the man 's hard stare , and tried to avoid meeting his eyes . |
| 30 | There are , however , different levels of publication that could be developed which would eventually help more material to become available at the professional level that we have been discussing . |