Example sentences of "[adv] [vb pp] [adv] at [adj] " in BNC.

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1 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 .
2 Had she herself perhaps dropped off at one point ?
3 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 .
4 Although , officially , steerage passengers were only allowed there at certain times , no-one took any notice if a few people walked the deck .
5 ‘ But apart from the fact that my mother obviously lived here at some time I know nothing at all . ’
6 This was sparked off by a federal Collective State Presidency order on Jan. 9 , apparently aimed principally at republican-controlled forces in Slovenia and Croatia , which required that all " unauthorized " armed units should surrender their arms within 10 days to the JNA .
7 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 .
8 He worked out where The Bar was on his maps , and then checked this perspective against the actual view — from where he saw the city it looked like The Bar was right in the middle of it , not hidden away at all like it was on the map .
9 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 .
10 He had seen his earliest pupils , as had my father , either not come back at all , or come back broken men .
11 Since then blacks have got richer at almost the same rate as whites , but they have not caught up at all .
12 ‘ Would it surprise you to know that in the five years since I first set eyes on you , I have not looked seriously at another woman ?
13 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 .
14 The single European market means health checks are no longer carried out at British ports .
15 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
16 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 .
17 ‘ This has not turned out at all as I envisaged it .
18 For her , the evening had not turned out at all as she had hoped .
19 But there is little doubt that charter-train profit can be read in seven-figure sums rather than six and that as a business venture , InterCity has not done badly at all .
20 As the banks , building societies and credit companies try to boost profits , many have been slow to pass on the reductions — and some have not done so at all .
21 As two young married couples they had been close for a time when they lived near Stoke , although Carole had not got on at all well with Amaranth .
22 I had peripherally helped out at anti-apartheid offices , even gone on CND Easter Marches when I first came over , but it was always on the sidelines .
23 The fog had not set in at that time , late afternoon , and the dockers were able to describe the men as respectable-looking young gents in peaked caps .
24 Mr Smith said : ‘ It is very suspicious that it is only one party 's leaflets that have not gone out at all in large quantities . ’
25 But they were soon rounded up at nearby Maidenhead railway station .
26 How many erm are already signed up at this present day for someone to follow on to now ?
27 He had not quietened down at all as he had grown older — far from it — and could not now be still for a single moment .
28 If you have not worked regularly at some time since 1978 because you have had to stay at home to care for either a child or a sick or elderly person you may have protected your right to a pension by claiming HRP .
29 I mean , we , it was very nearly went through had a meeting which had the press and public excluded and I think it was not handled well at that time from and we should make it quite clear that we are watching and hopefully we do understand the situation .
30 She and her husband Elfed James , a miner , after renting a couple of rooms , soon ended up at 73 Caradoc Street , the top end , the scullery butting against a mountain leaking coal juice known as ‘ the Side ’ .
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