Example sentences of "something at " in BNC.
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| 1 | These often required jokes , tricks and special ploys , all of which were performed in dumb show , something at which the great mimes Grock and Charlie Chaplin were expert . |
| 2 | She has the evidence of her own experience that the achievement of low inflation through monetary discipline is not something at which either the British Treasury or the Bank of England excels . |
| 3 | He shouted something at me or at his dogs , I do n't even now know which , and was gone into the night . |
| 4 | There were no words in the experience , but he became aware of the fact that he was keeping something at bay ; or another way of looking at it would be that he was wearing some rigid outer clothing , like corsets or a suit of armour . |
| 5 | We would arrange to be something at a particular time in the evening and then the following day we would compare our thoughts . |
| 6 | That was something at the time that I felt I did n't really need myself . |
| 7 | I 'm going to get something at the pub on my way home . |
| 8 | It showed you can achieve something at short notice , provided you 're prepared to drop everything and cover the cost . |
| 9 | He shouted something at Endill but he could n't hear because of the wind and did n't dare move or shout back , frightened he would upset the basket . |
| 10 | As the New Right has denounced and undermined a communitarian form of society , so ‘ The numbers of people for whom such communitarian visions are good and mean something at the level of their everyday experiences are declining , attenuating their moral force . ’ |
| 11 | Finally it is appropriate to say something at this point about the fact , discussed in detail in Chapter 2 , that habituation does not show context dependence . |
| 12 | But they 're really trying to trick you into parting with something at well below its true value . |
| 13 | For an hour or two we trudged about trying to find something more ( or something at all ) to see , and even photograph . |
| 14 | Number 60 's wife was shouting something at number 60 's children . |
| 15 | It is something at last to have left such views behind . |
| 16 | I remember saying something at home about Watson the gardener . |
| 17 | Do not stand on chairs to reach something at ceiling level . |
| 18 | It was like that game where you were blindfolded and spun round , and then you had to try and touch someone , Creed and the Skull , they were close one moment , then they were dancing out of reach , and nothing would sound like anything when he played it back , it would sound like interference , nonsense , silence , but he stayed with it , trips to the bathroom to sluice his nose and throat , more trips to replace the tapes , because he sensed they were leading up to something , there was something at the end of this rainbow of places , not gold but something . |
| 19 | Switch on and check that you have 28V to 30V at the rectifier output , about 9V across capacitor C8 and something at the output terminals . |
| 20 | He came in too fast and had to swing to avoid something at the end of his run — the undercarriage collapsed . |
| 21 | You carry a notebook , like a journalist in a film , and scribble down street conversation — much of it ‘ How are you Mrs Jones ? ’ inanities — in the hope that there will be something at the end of the day to turn into copy . |
| 22 | Something at the core of him gave in to her . |
| 23 | If you do something at speed , it 's really the accumulation of everything that 's gone before that has got you to that point . |
| 24 | It was something at least . |
| 25 | Topknot shouted something at his nomes . |
| 26 | Topknot spread his arms above him and muttered something at the sky . |
| 27 | Something at the back of his mind was pushing its way to the front and giving him a curious grey feeling . |
| 28 | ‘ Well , maybe there 's something at the back of a cupboard somewhere , ’ he said . |
| 29 | Time is appropriate where the child is required to do something at or by a particular time . |
| 30 | The umpires might also have noticed something at some point along the line ! |