Example sentences of "[pron] [modal v] [verb] at a " in BNC.
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| 1 | If I should tell at a tea table in London , that I have crossed the Atlantick in an open boat , how they 'd shudder , and what a fool they 'd think me to expose myself to such danger . ’ |
| 2 | I think maybe I should stop at a supermarket . |
| 3 | Erm he erm I should say at a rough guess there would be at least eight . |
| 4 | All done then , I 'll sell at a hundred and twenty pounds . |
| 5 | I could tell at a glance whether the job was done or not . |
| 6 | The inner side of the track was almost sheer at this point , brown broken rock glistening with water , and I could see at a glance where the rock had come from , a gaping hole oozing mud as though a giant molar had been extracted . |
| 7 | Often times when I was going into the country after orders and so on in the autumn , I 'd look at a field that had been freshly ploughed up after the harvest ; and I 'd think to myself how much like a piece of Doncaster Cord it was — colour , straight lines and everything . ’ |
| 8 | On the way I would stop at a restaurant and have lunch and then continue , taking my time . |
| 9 | In the following sections , I shall look at a few examples of each type of problem with some illustrations from my own work . |
| 10 | Here , I shall look at a variety of drawing media , both ancient and modern . |
| 11 | And I shall sell at a hundred and sixty pounds . |
| 12 | I want to show I can succeed at a bigger club in the future and fulfil my footballing ambitions . |
| 13 | Paintings erm have the power to take you back in time , I can look at a painting and remember something that 's happened yesterday or years and years ago and as a small child , looking at this painting I remembered as a small child seeing for the first time erm the sea dipping into er , sorry the sun dipping into , into the sea and being horrified I was convinced that the heat of the sun would boil the oceans and the world dry and it reminded me for an awful lot of my childhood and I 'm sure if I 'd seen this painting years ago it would of persuaded me otherwise , erm this is called In A Days Work Satisfaction in a days work , chosen not given , eating the laxed food , face turned to steer a sun , making cloth into a gown and giving colour to the side of a boat |
| 14 | ‘ Even I can look at a gauge and make out when it 's on the red ! ’ |
| 15 | this makes quick reference easier as I can see at a glance whether the magazine has the pattern I am looking for . |
| 16 | ‘ Every estate which must expire at a period certain and prefixed , by whatever words created , is an estate for years . |
| 17 | The timely award of an extension of time may avoid problems which might arise at a later stage when a contractor submits a claim for taking extraordinary measures to recover lost time owing to the late issue of an instruction , for example . |
| 18 | But these inconveniences can not be related to those which could result at a given moment from the capture by the enemy of three or four battalions , with a loss , by consequence , of several thousands of men . |
| 19 | The invisible powers of nature were analogous to the visible powers of the magnet , which could act at a distance and penetrate matter with its rays . |
| 20 | A progress chart , I 'd thought , which would show at a glance — ’ |
| 21 | On the other hand he would have a much enlarged Aquitaine , to be held in sovereignty , the ‘ perpetual liberty ’ which he had instructed the Black Prince to demand of his royal prisoner in 1357 , and which would remove at a stroke the threat of confiscation . |
| 22 | China says it wants to ensure its receiving equipment can pick up signals from Spot , which will transmit at a similar frequency to the thematic mapper . |
| 23 | In this respect the mantle rocks resemble pitch or brittle toffee , which will shatter at a sudden blow , but will bend easily if flexed slowly and continuously . |
| 24 | It is hard to imagine a greater contrast between two rock types than that between obsidian , a natural volcanic glass which will shatter at a blow into razor-sharp splinters , and pumice , a rock so light and frothy that it will float on water . |
| 25 | Modern microprocessors and computer technology have made such rapid advances that telecommunications and internal communications systems are now in compact units without plugs , switches , or buttons : just small keyboards with touch-sensitive depressions , some with small visual display units ( VDUs ) which can show at a glance the status of all calls being handled and prompt the operator through every procedure so that training can be reduced to a minimum . |
| 26 | A form of extendible hashing that does not suffer from oscillations and is claimed to outperform most indexing methods , was reported by Lomet He named the method bounded index exponential hashing ; it is not strictly a direct technique , and suffers from the drawback that the file packing density is generally low , but offers many advantages for files which can grow at a rate that can not be accommodated in a static system . |
| 27 | If you do n't realise what you 've done as you knit you may notice at a later date just one wrong row somewhere in your knitting ! |
| 28 | You wo n't tear any major muscle groups laughing during Crimes and Misdemeanours or Hannah and her Sisters , for example ; but you may marvel at a film-maker at the height of his powers . |
| 29 | You must look at a film of him and do all you can to emulate his behaviour . ’ |
| 30 | But you should descend at a higher rate so as to reach 2500ft before you turn . |