Example sentences of "[adv] it [verb] at [adj] " in BNC.

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1 Two hundred pounds , it 's a good one , double decker with all sorts of , and then adds a forty five per cent mark up on it , so it starts at two hundred pounds , then adds
2 er erm well , I know when it is , Thursday the eleventh of November , it 's a matinee performance so it starts at two o'clock .
3 But , if we make the reward of the item of food erm not predictable , okay , so it comes at variable intervals er then the rat actually works harder pressing the lever , it 's more likely to do the behaviour and it 's less likely to give up doing that behaviour afterwards , okay ?
4 Ten years later it stood at 3,253 , then over the next decade it shot up to 5,169 .
5 Prior to the election Labour had twenty-eight seats and the Alliance twenty , now it stood at thirty-six and twenty-four respectively , and after the by-elections subsequent to the election of aldermen , forty and twenty-four .
6 Well it started at half past six last night .
7 Well it starts at seven thirty , it 'll be a bit difficult to eat out in there .
8 ‘ Oh , here it comes at last . ’
9 but then the bell does n't go till nine , although sometimes it goes at two minutes to nine and sometimes it goes at five past nine
10 but then the bell does n't go till nine , although sometimes it goes at two minutes to nine and sometimes it goes at five past nine
11 Unfortunately it happens at seventy , and eighty , and ninety mile an hour of motorway , you just switch off do n't you ?
12 Apprenticeship training is essentially about ensuring standards of workmanship and characteristically it appears at first sight to take an unconscionably long time .
13 In fact , it was a stubborn virginity , which took all his strength to remove ; while he wrought at it she gave way to wailing , then it broke at last , a cry ; perhaps the only natural sound Emily had ever made in face of the only reality that had ever assailed her .
14 Too many of them treat aggression as an innate drive in the individual of the species , so that society enters the picture merely as a modifying influence — if indeed it enters at all .
15 Because the disaster revealed something about the basic nature of the Soviet system , at a moment when it had at last become possible to do something about that system , the political consequences may prove the most profound of all .
16 The aircraft was on charter to fly passengers from Norwich to Gothenburg , Sweden , and during the morning of 12 Dec 73 it made an uneventful positioning flight from Oslo , Norway , to Norwich where it landed at 1228 hours .
17 Commonly it means at any instant having several partially-executed programs , among which the computer resources have to be shared in such a way that they interact ( if at all ) only in authorized ways .
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