Example sentences of "[pron] [adv prt] at a [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 So he turned into Gambrinus 's and sat himself down at a small ironwork and marble table , and asked for some water .
3 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 .
4 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 .
5 It can then call you back at a specified number .
6 The human race is eating them up at a staggering rate .
7 The shares will have been borrowed and sold in the hope and expectation of buying them back at a lower price .
8 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 .
9 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 .
10 For , after switching on power , it carries him along at a leisurely 10mph .
11 Yeah well that 's not so bad as long as you can get her down at a reasonable hour and get to sleep .
12 Blind panic sent her off at a stumbling run .
13 He had said hardly anything since we had picked him up at a draughty street corner where the Hanko road leaves Helsinki .
14 In The Desert Rats as the young English captain who put paid to that upstart Rommel by turning him back at a crucial moment in the whole North African Campaign ( set in Palm Springs ) , he was fine .
15 Chiswell Street is quiet and sedate nowadays but two hundred years ago it was the powerhouse for the Whitbread brewery which churned out Porter , the dark beer named after the London market porters who knocked it back at a fearsome rate early in the morning .
16 Anyway , he left what should have been my share to Matthew on condition that I was able to lease it back at a nominal rental .
17 And and there 's always the chance of getting it back at a later stage er but the whole market will have moved up a level .
18 Ward had his camera with him , and though he led me round at a breathless pace , talking all the time about the terrible religious cult of the Aztecs , he also took quite a few pictures , usually with myself or some other human in the foreground to give an indication of the scale of the place .
19 The boats picked us up at a pre-arranged rendezvous and we sped off again to do a foot patrol on the lough shore road .
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