Example sentences of "[to-vb] [adv] at the " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is especially the case where we have an instruction set defined for a compatible range of computers , since it will be difficult to implement economically at the lower ( and cheaper ) end of the range the complex facilities required at the upper end ( though microprogramming may be an answer ) . |
| 2 | Even by 1926 party contacts between the capital and Smolensk were to remain mostly at the written rather than at the human level . |
| 3 | Remember Ah asked ye to go slowly at the start ? |
| 4 | But I am still going to sit right at the back of the aeroplane away from you ! |
| 5 | This course is designed to produce graduates conversant with the techniques of physics and chemistry and armed with the necessary mathematical skill to work effectively at the chemical/physical interface . |
| 6 | Pa has given special permission for the godparents and me to stand inside at the Jonah window , while he does the immersion outside . |
| 7 | Its regulated , preventive surveillance features , in practice meant ‘ moving on ’ those civilians who dared to stand idly at the street corner . |
| 8 | This objection can easily be overcome by allowing two students to work together at the terminal — a method which appears to facilitate learning . |
| 9 | Often George came in at five o'clock in the morning to hammer away at the pirate ship in the carpenter 's shop . |
| 10 | ‘ Not that anyone 's going to come anyway at the moment . |
| 11 | Carefully , slowly , Grace and her father tried to get the boat near the rock , but three times they had to pull away at the last minute . |
| 12 | Across the oceans , Sotheby 's continues to plug away at the Japanese market with its Print sale in Tokyo , now bolstered by a few nihonga ( Japanese-style ) paintings . |
| 13 | He believed , and she had once heard him say , that eventually she would , naturally , come round to his way of thinking , and she had vowed to work harder at the study of English literature in order to learn enough words to refute him once and for all . |
| 14 | Inside , I was barely able to stand upright at the highest point , for I was head and shoulders taller than my sinister host ; and it did not escape my notice that the roof at its highest point was infested with cobwebs , in the corners of which sat large square spiders . |
| 15 | Meanwhile back in Wales , Philip Burton had taken the plunge , moved to Cardiff and gone to work full-time at the BBC as a producer . |
| 16 | He used to scream even at the idea of fresh air , but now he spends all his time outside in his wheelchair , with Miss Mary and Dickon Sowerby . |
| 17 | One hacker 's wife remarked : ‘ The whole thing started when he began to work late at the office , and I began to think that there was another woman . |
| 18 | I was confident I could wear her down eventually , but I certainly never expected her to come across at the first time of asking . |
| 19 | But the new financing structure collapsed under them and , as the cultural energy build up during the 1939–45 period became depleted , these filmmakers were only occasionally to work again at the same level of intensity . |
| 20 | ‘ Let's have a picnic , ’ she said , telling herself that next week she would make a real effort to work again at the practice of virtue . |
| 21 | If the unholy alliance in favour of the National Curriculum is likely to come apart at the seams over the issue of resource , so also , given the very different aspirations of those who support its introduction , there is likely to be a parting of the ways over principles . |
| 22 | The reasons for the job cuts are a classified secret , but volunteers for redundancy and early retirement are being urged to come forward at the base in Cheltenham , where seven thousand people work . |
| 23 | Indeed in cases where such companies had a vital stake , as with the British South Africa Union Minière in Zaire they were seen to behave badly at the very point at which their host countries became independent . |
| 24 | Bending forward , she trailed her mouth delicately across the bridge of his nose to his cheek , then down to hover tantalisingly at the corner of his mouth . |
| 25 | Unlike Van der Ven , London dealer Angela Gräfin von Wallwitz , who specializes in Continental Ceramics and Works of Art , has elected to exhibit only at the Grosvenor House Fair this year . |
| 26 | They assumed that pupils , mostly boys , of course , who were failing on the school reading scheme simply needed more and more opportunity to slog away at the phonics and sight vocabulary while under tight supervision . |
| 27 | After all , he had managed to dismantle the magical aspects of my eidesis and now he began to chew away at the very grist of what he termed my ‘ delusionary apparatus ’ . |
| 28 | It would be ironic to pick away at the mortar for a few decades only to break through into the next-door cell . |
| 29 | She smiled ruefully , then continued to wave frantically at the approaching train . |
| 30 | Then it moved closer and began to scratch frantically at the foot of the bin . |