Example sentences of "[vb infin] [adv prt] at a " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ You do n't half keep on at a girl , ’ said Dolly . |
| 2 | Nicholson wanted to loiter with the man who — in his eyes — could pluck with ease a flower he could only look on at a distance . |
| 3 | Also the dyslexic child is not necessarily unintelligent because he ca n't write something which you 've just written on the blackboard or which has only just been shown to him in some other way ; the dyslexic person ca n't look up at a blackboard , hold the visual symbols in her mind and get them down on paper in a different position . |
| 4 | Keeping a car fully maintained at your local cost-a-lot garage can work out at a small fortune — and it never ends . |
| 5 | Of course , very often garments require a number of stitches that do not work out at a neat number of pattern repeats , so you do n't HAVE to much patterns at side seams . |
| 6 | They need only look out at a sheep . |
| 7 | Temperatures will level off at a cool eight or nine degrees celsius , that 's forty six to forty eight fahrenheit- although it is Novemver , still cool for the time of year . |
| 8 | He would smile and move off at a steady pace , his friends with him . |
| 9 | Some day soon we 'll stop by at a monastery and have a scribbler read them out to you . |
| 10 | I am grateful to my hon. Friend for his intervention — although anything that the Government nationalise they may flog off at a profit at a later date , so I ask him to keep an eye on the situation . |
| 11 | It may be enough for an investment trust to tempt investors by describing the opportunity area in broad terms , and inasmuch as this temptation continues to work then the early investors can sell out at a profit to the later ones . |
| 12 | Blackbirds , sparrows , robins , and other birds whose names Vic does n't know , skip and hop about at a discreet distance from the magpies . |
| 13 | But , talk to Stevely on the subject of how well he has taught them and this most modest of men will go off at a tangent , drawing attention to the extent to which both girls have been prepared to work . |
| 14 | Erm tt whether that 's appropriate , you know , I 'm thinking of it as a first appointment just to get a general picture whereas you might be coming back to stir his memory for referrals by saying er , you know , er you mentioned here you 're a member of the squash club , do you remember I said I 'd be looking for introductions , maybe we 'll learn whether at the beginning of the second appointment you jog the memory there er you know in other words what I 'm do doing is keeping that in my mind , that you are remembering the squash club or whatever club it may be and use that later , although I did n't er elaborate on it at that , that er because I think you can go off at a tangent |
| 15 | As with all hill climbing , a BM may end up at a local minimum . |
| 16 | Public money will be used to lend up to £420 a year to students in full-time higher education , which they will pay back at an inflation-linked rate of interest . |
| 17 | I do n't exclude myself from myself , but I I I 'd give him a nine and I I 'd come in at a seven I think . |
| 18 | That way , unless I 've really laid it on thick , I can get along at a cracking pace . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | The Bank is considering the view of the IBOA to their proposals on Job Sharing and will revert back at an early date . |
| 21 | A level-top , apart from its looking well , was emphasized for a good economic reason : if the ploughland was level , the drill coulters would bite in at an uniform depth , and sow the seed in the same way ; the ears of corn would then mature at approximately the same time and all the seeds of corn would be approximately the same size . |
| 22 | Conversely , any fool can sit down at a slot machine . |
| 23 | He would sit down at a table , take a sheet of writing paper , and discharge himself into me . |
| 24 | They may sit down at a table to chat to a friend . |
| 25 | Or , or other benefits that would actually kick in at a certain point , er , of death , I mean obviously this would actually help at erm , diagnosis , and you 're writing into this , sort of to cover all of the things that we 're talking about , and they get that , and then they continue to live , the rest of your plans are all then thrown out are n't they , because you 've got all those things that you 've put into place for death , sorted out in the years before . |
| 26 | These white athletes under such circumstances may start off at a psychological disadvantage . |
| 27 | In the case of party , for example , par will start off at a higher activation level than party because of inhibition effects , but as the model begins to process , party will be sufficiently active to suppress tea … |
| 28 | Erm it is no wonder that she would lash out at a child . |
| 29 | there will be several formats that we can agree on at a later date . |
| 30 | Mind you , not many Mormons would turn up at a Barbican flat at 7.30 clutching two bottles of wine . |