Example sentences of "[adv] at the [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Suddenly at the height of the battle this purple and now orange mushroom bursts across the entire screen , devouring both armies in its path . |
| 32 | A stroke does not come suddenly at the age of 75 or 80 and finish life . |
| 33 | Walter Stuart Surridge , who died suddenly at the age of 74 while visiting his company 's factory in Glossop on April 13 , played 254 matches for Surrey between 1947 and 1956 . |
| 34 | Several years ago her husband died suddenly at the age of 64 . |
| 35 | Genius , innovator , hard worker and self-made man were all accurate descriptions of Anthony Colin Bruce Chapman who died suddenly at the age of 54 at his Norfolk home in December 1982 . |
| 36 | Col. Salim Fakhri , a political opponent of Saddam Hussein and head of the Democratic Rescue Movement , died suddenly at the age of 69 in London on Sept. 6 . |
| 37 | Constance Turner , matron of the Teesside Leonard Cheshire Home at Marske Hall , has died suddenly at the age of 58 . |
| 38 | Korn/Ferry , whose world fee income achieved a fivefold increase between 1977 and 1986 , and is confidently expected to pass the $100m. mark by the 1990s , is sometimes criticised in the USA for being dominated by the central management , for its ‘ big factory ’ image where the seniors do the selling and the juniors do the work , and it has also suffered much at the pen of headhunting newshound Jim Kennedy , who produces Executive Recruiter News . |
| 39 | If they asked me to say thank you very much at the end of a shit interview I would n't , and if they did n't like it , I 'd probably leave . |
| 40 | Lisa glanced defeatedly at the pile of papers , then with a heavy heart she gathered them up . |
| 41 | One important group lay within an enclosure at Springhead , apparently at the heart of the town itself . |
| 42 | He resigned , however , in July 1976 , four months before Franco 's death , apparently at the request of King Juan Carlos who appointed Adolfo Suárez González to steer through democratic reforms leading to free elections [ see p. 27853 ] . |
| 43 | Odile Harrington , a South African convicted and imprisoned as a spy in Zimbabwe in 1987 [ p. 35629 ] , was released and returned to South Africa on Nov. 2 , apparently at the request of the ANC , and was greeted by de Klerk on her arrival . |
| 44 | saw , which er , is obvious a machine , they even had band saws apparently at the end of the last century , cabinet makers band saws oh I 've never seen , all I 've ever seen is the big ones for mills you know the logs , these ones for er , obviously for timber erm |
| 45 | Some opponents of the regime expressed scepticism at the proposed reforms and the adoption of liberalism , apparently at the expense of the long-held official ideology of " Mobutism " under which the President embodied the party and the state . |
| 46 | Though the Life says that Aethelbald 's happiness as king had grown in succeeding years ( since his accession ) ( Vita Guthlaci , ch. 52 ) , it is not certain that this means that Aethelbald was ‘ apparently at the height of his power ’ , and it is not impossible that the Life dates to a period before Aethelbald had asserted his authority outside his own kingdom — perhaps c . |
| 47 | She filled in the columns next to Veronica 's name , and stared thoughtfully at the piece of paper . |
| 48 | Graham rubbed his hands over his face then stared thoughtfully at the carpet for some time before finally looking up at Sabrina again . |
| 49 | I had forgotten to bring anything to read with me , so I passed the time by staring thoughtfully at the emptiness around me , sipping a glass of water and making up Scandinavian riddles — |
| 50 | Belov looked thoughtfully at the ground around them , as if he might still read signs that had long ago disappeared . |
| 51 | and erm when I , when I installed it I was very pleasantly surprised , at the basically at the number of useful little applications that they threw in with it . |
| 52 | Er but I mean basically at the end of the day , I mean you have to think about to what extent you can increase your sales . |
| 53 | And he smiles afresh at the thought of what that particular victory meant to everyone who witnessed it . |
| 54 | Desmond Barker was however , appointed to look afresh at the Constitution in general . |
| 55 | Friends have often remarked on this and wondered afresh at the wizardry of the Welsh . |
| 56 | Ajayi sat back , putting her gloves back on , She looked doubtfully at the man on the far side of the table . |
| 57 | Detective Chief Inspector John McLeish gazed doubtfully at the plate before him . |
| 58 | Sandra glanced swiftly at the man with the stick , wondering what he had in his pockets . |
| 59 | Complaints follow errors in the diet especially at the beginning of a warm spell after cold weather . |
| 60 | Thus , you may need to introduce your pupils to common variants — especially at the beginning of words : Choice becomes more complex once we consider vowels : the sound of the diphthong a can be symbolised in several different ways ( see also pages 32–3 ) : ay ( day ) ; a-e ( make ) ; ai ( wait ) , au ( gauge ) ; ei ( neighbour ) ; ey ( they ) . |