Example sentences of "[pron] [adv prt] at [art] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 Making a stock of suitable pictures and then sending them in at a steady trickle to the news editor throughout the year gives your children 's work a good chance of being chosen .
2 ‘ We shall know whether they sink or swim by putting them in at the deep end , and I have every confidence that they will all do well .
3 We realise that chucking them in at the deep end is not satisfactory .
4 He pops them in at the white
5 Or drop them in at the Northern Echo offices in Northallerton and Darlington .
6 This splendid achievement was due of course to exceptional wind conditions thrusting them along at the remarkable average speed of ninety miles per hour .
7 With clenched teeth , Ace pulled the pins on the grenades , paused for a couple of heartbeats , and hurled them over at the German position .
8 So he turned into Gambrinus 's and sat himself down at a small ironwork and marble table , and asked for some water .
9 I do n't even know whether they let them off at the head office .
10 Exasperated Pakistani officials have threatened to round up the Arabs and drop them off at the American embassy .
11 The bus letting me off at a convenient corner in the city , I walked to the Sheraton and from a telephone there spoke to Mrs Baudelaire .
12 He said : ‘ I asked her to drop me off at the nearby Woodcutters Club .
13 Remember that , as with tools for any kind of job , there are good tools and not-so-good tools and if you buy poor quality tools , they may let you down at a vital time .
14 The chappie who let you in at the front door was Norman he 's form Salford East .
15 ‘ I 'm afraid I 've plunged you in at the deep end .
16 ‘ For dropping you in at the deep end , before you 'd had a chance to get your bearings … ’
17 I 'll drop you off at the Jolly Farmer , then you can walk up the hill to get to the school .
18 ‘ But they will never take you , Don — I will hide you here — no , I will hide you up at the old shieling hut — or we could run away west into Rannoch — ‘ There are forts everywhere .
19 It can then call you back at a specified number .
20 Are you back at the old business with Klein ? ’
21 See you back at the old sales office .
22 The human race is eating them up at a staggering rate .
23 I checked everything in at the left-luggage office in Liverpool Street station , and then went off to make a couple of telephone calls .
24 ‘ When you killed me back at the Miskatonic ?
25 Rather they preferred to farm them out at a fixed rent , at leases which , in the fourteenth century , became progressively longer , and to enjoy the freedom to take up offices or to serve in the army .
26 It is clear that the derivation of the high number of word paths from mid-classes and the problem of filtering them out at the lexical access stage means that syntactic/semantic information must be brought to bear as soon as words are accessed .
27 As she let herself in at the front door her mother 's voice came booming out of the kitchen .
28 Lance Buckmaster , our esteemed Minister for External Security has asked me to attend him down at the ancestral home , Tavey Grange on Dartmoor . ’
29 In the early hours of 9th January , 1969 , Vigilant sighted the suspect vessel entering the River Swale near the Isle of Sheppey and followed her in at a safe distance .
30 I decided the only thing to do was throw her in at the deep end and go right down the village high street , where the roads were busiest and noisiest with holiday-makers , and simply stand there trying to calm her down .
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