Example sentences of "[noun] [adv prt] at [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 So erm in fairness to him I think he was plunged into something he did n't have a hell in er hope in at that time of coping with .
2 British flags upside down at royal show
3 Following the bomb drop , the Lincolns would wheel in at low level allowing the air gunners to heavily strafe the target area .
4 And that was the reason why , and in fact the total shortfall , the total unmanning was something like a hundred and thirty-five hundred and forty , which is why the police authority has a bid in at this moment for a , a further sixty-eight policemen , which has in fact been backed by the county council , who are prepared to pay for it .
5 Sorry , one thing I did n't explain , I it 's , it 's probably quite obvious , but I 'll explain it anyway , which is the reason for putting the planning calendars in at that place is your diary expires in the December of next , of this year , you will probably order your refill in October , November er , of next year , and , and based on our outstanding customer services this year , you 'll probably receive it next February .
6 Well like , for example , we have excellent educational psychologists in Oxfordshire and erm we have advisers for children with special needs in Oxfordshire , and they are extremely useful people in helping out those many children who are not like the average run of children and have specific and particular problems , and I was very fearful that eventually an opted out school might turn its noses up at such children , and I think they needed protection , so that 's one example .
7 There were no lifts lifting the cars up at that time .
8 When the Duke died of dropsy in 1827 , his financial affairs were in such a state that his executors took the unprecedented step of placing his chattels up at public auction , entrusting the sale to the young James Christie .
9 The Spidergobs had once caught a technerd to have fun with , a technerd who could savvy scumlingo , and who 'd screamed about how all his gang cousins had been taken into the Troopies up at some gateway fortress where the land-trains left , whatever those were .
10 In the non-Midlands games there was a breathtaking finish at Vicarage Road where Bruce Rioch 's team were three goals up at one stage .
11 There must have been text books around at one time but I can not even identify any titles let alone suppliers .
12 Were there quite a few vessels around at that time that were giving assistance ?
13 Nearly all the vessels around at this time of year are private yachts and fishermen .
14 I do n't know why he makes you do that I mean it 's if that was something the I mean all Tony used to ever say when we were at traffic lights were if you want to you can put the handbrake on at this set of traffic lights if they were downhill
15 A lady in at five pound .
16 But for newcomers it is daunting to stand on the brink of Genghis Khan — one of the runs in China Bowl — and gaze down at unending acres of snow .
17 Most pregnant mothers are told to relax and put their feet up at some point every day — and many of them had done so while watching these television programmes .
18 If you are going up to senior positions movement is essential ; even people who may plateau out at middle management will have done a lot of different jobs for three , four , five years .
19 Besides , you ca n't turn the girl out at this hour . ’
20 Did you remember to pull your tummy in and tuck your bottom under at all times yesterday ?
21 To take the garbage pickers on at this rate would increase their costs and would bring about the additional cost of security benefits .
22 This makes contact with the batch of rods , then draws the cooling product along at predetermined speed for about 5m(16ft) before–relaxing the pressure , lifting off , and allowing the machine operator to cut the batch free .
23 The pound is down at one dollar , fifty and more than three pfennigs down at two marks , forty-seven .
24 He could hear vehicles moving along the road , dropping storm-troopers off at regular intervals as they started to search the forest .
25 When approached by Central news Mrs Gee drove off at high speed .
26 So what we 've got to say to the County Council I would suggest is that this is a training course similar to those we always got release for branch officials and shop stewards so why should you turn your nose up at this training course ?
27 ‘ Happy Game ’ , for instance , has a chorus about celebrating the end of an unhappy relationship , a state of affairs that in ‘ Immigrants … ’ days would have seen the band crying their guitars out at high speed for three minutes or so .
28 What on earth is that box of biscuits doing out at this time of day ?
29 There was so much fish around at this time as the stocks had been left in peace during the Second World War , but this situation did not last .
30 Profits were 50% up at passive components distributor Nortronic but Wakefield , the US networking equipment company that has moved into network systems integration , turned in a slightly lower contribution than last year because return of growth in the UK market has not enhanced the computer communications sector yet .
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