Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [adv prt] at [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Seeing Alice 's commenting face , Muriel said swiftly , " But he only got back at three this morning , and those Channel boats … |
| 2 | We are concerned in fact that er the western nations did n't rather deplore earlier er Hussein 's actions against his own people using chemical weapons , and we think it 's a shame for us that we 've only come in at this point , and we must come in carefully I think . |
| 3 | Had she herself perhaps dropped off at one point ? |
| 4 | A Sergeant with a crudely reconstructed pink blob of a nose — obviously bitten off at some stage in his professional or previous career — sat at a damascened bronze data-desk stained green with cupreous patina . |
| 5 | Leave about one o'clock get in at half four . |
| 6 | I do n't know how you can be so tired when you only get up at half past ten in the morning ! |
| 7 | I think we 'd better switch off at this stage . |
| 8 | To your benefit , so turn up at half eight , nine o'clock whatever it is . |
| 9 | A photographic memory enabled him to avoid the obvious suspicions which Special Branch officers noting the proceedings obviously fell under at such meetings . |
| 10 | and we we 've always thought that , you know , to have a beat officer that was going around that could perhaps turn up at any time , would at least be some deterrent in so much that |
| 11 | no the English news only comes on at half past ten at night and then you 'll get what they wanted to hear , so you do n't have to listen to the World Service |
| 12 | The towns which thus sprung up at some railway centres are examples of the way in which individuality was lost , and lately the housing estate has spread a new uniformity even more widely over the country . |
| 13 | Most conductors just sit down at that point and , beyond making sure that the orchestra kept up with the stage , leave the music to its own devices . |
| 14 | But in this particular lesson the decision structure is something of a mirage , for as we have already pointed out at this stage the situation is not real enough for these children to be making anything but a superficial gesture — going through the motions of making a decision . |
| 15 | As we have , therefore , travelled together through so many pages , let us behave to one another like fellow-travellers in a stage coach , who have passed several days in the company of each other : and who , notwithstanding any bickerings or little animosities which may have occurred on the road , generally make up at last , and mount for the last time into their vehicle with cheerfulness and good humour ; since after this one stage , it may possibly happen to us , as it commonly happens to them , never to meet more . |
| 16 | I used not to go out at all if there were any around . |
| 17 | My hic hyacinths have all come out except no , they 've all come out , one goron l looks like it 's gone and lot congealed little bad and another hyacinth has two have come up and other ones not come up at all . |
| 18 | He had seen his earliest pupils , as had my father , either not come back at all , or come back broken men . |
| 19 | Since then blacks have got richer at almost the same rate as whites , but they have not caught up at all . |
| 20 | The technology has evolved from operations already carried out at coastal sites in Scotland in which lengths of oil and gas pipelines are made into bundles which are towed offshore at control depths for installation at oil and gasfields . |
| 21 | The single European market means health checks are no longer carried out at British ports . |
| 22 | where you 're just watching , helping , washing a few cups with somebody and , and then going on a course one or two days a week , and then you 're consider whether being took on and even if you 're not took on at that place at least you 've got something to say you 've done when you 're |
| 23 | She knew something , though not all , of his day 's programme : she 'd rung The Randolph at 10.45 p.m. and learned from the tour leader that her husband had not turned up at any point during the day to fulfil his commitments — and that in itself was quite out of character . |
| 24 | ‘ This has not turned out at all as I envisaged it . |
| 25 | For her , the evening had not turned out at all as she had hoped . |
| 26 | Field men know that pollution does not crop up at random and one of the arts of enforcement is to be in the right place at the right time — or at least to know where to look , for a particular problem in this form of enforcement is to forge a link between act or event and offender . |
| 27 | It is extremely important that you do not give up at this point and this is where training really begins . |
| 28 | They do n't just give up at 25 or 30 to worry about the children . |
| 29 | Unfortunately many clinicians use this approach in an incorrect manner and do not follow up at regular intervals . |
| 30 | Among his worst crimes are not being married , not turning up at milking times and stealing food . ’ |