Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] at [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Webb has constantly said he is happy to carry on at Old Trafford and fight for his place . |
| 2 | In the Gaza Strip , hundreds of women held a sit in at Red Cross headquarters in Gaza City and in Khan Yunis . |
| 3 | The net wickets at Queen 's Park were considered too dangerous and , indeed , the five specialist seamers were allowed to bowl only at unguarded stumps . |
| 4 | We find customers prefer to sit down at individual desks and discuss their requirements . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ The action goes along at break-neck velocity to reach its conclusion and so there is no problem with the audience fidgeting . ’ |
| 6 | Thus tree rings are differentiated by the types , density and size of cell laid down at different times of the year ; varves by the gradation in particle size resulting from sedimentation of debris released into rivers and carried to lakes by the annual melt of glaciers ; and ice core layers by differences in dust content and acidity . |
| 7 | Like warts and bristles , structures protruded from the main mass : long strands of metal gridwork , a heap of vitreous bubble-forms , metal boxes welded together at haphazard angles . |
| 8 | Right it is a hundred miles from King 's Lynn to London , the train takes two hours to do the journey the train does not go at a constant speed , it speeds up sometimes and slows down at other times it also stops at stations on the way and on once of course as it , as it 's stopping it 's going more and more slowly and as it 's er moving off again it starts slowly and starts to go quickly but because it takes two hours in all the train goes a hundred miles in two hours we say its average speed for the journey is fifty miles per hour . |
| 9 | Months ago they were passing strangers , chucked together at check-in times . |
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| 11 | An accompanying booklet gives advice on timber selection , and how timber can be harvested locally at minimal cost . |
| 12 | They gradually caught on at other establishments , although not on such a substantial scale . |
| 13 | Also available from Bisque is the battery-powered , remote-control Bagno-Stat , which allows you to pre-set the towel radiator heater to come on at specific times and maintain required temperatures . |
| 14 | At times like that , you call on your mates , and Kenny Everett kindly got us out of a spot of trouble there and agreed to come on at short notice . |
| 15 | Then it stays in the burrow alone , visited only at feeding times , for nearly two months . |
| 16 | And apply it to say driving along at steady speeds , then you can work a lot of it out for yourself . |
| 17 | Responding to SCOTVEC 's suggestions , however , the Prison Service has now created a support structure across institutions which ensures parity of standards and allows Instructors to come together at regular intervals for staff development sessions . |
| 18 | Mills were often built on an estuary where the water could be trapped upstream at high tide by sluice gates . |
| 19 | " And let it be said , " Harry went on , " now we 're talking straight , that Miss Jennifer here can forget all the Romish ideas she was fed on down at Roscarrock Hall and start eating Protestant pie , which she 'll find suits a Cornish stomach a sight better than all that hocus-pocus-nomminy-domminy rubbish they peddle down at Holy Joe 's . |
| 20 | Each of several characters is followed through twenty-four hours and their lives touch only at certain points in the narrative . |
| 21 | Say aloud at normal speed : ‘ Me th ylated sp ri ts are not o ft en e ff erve sc ent , are th ey ? ’ |
| 22 | Not only is there a failure to work together at local level , but central government also fails to provide the framework of legislation and subsidy that would enable housing and social services departments to address jointly the aspirations of disabled people . |
| 23 | He was chased out over the Adriatic by fighters and was obliged to come down at Tatoi airport near Athens . |
| 24 | The va n't Hoff equation is only approximate and holds only at low concentrations . |
| 25 | This produces a hypsometric curve which shows the elevations of those regions lying between the continental platforms and the ocean basins and suggests that the true break between the continents and oceans lies not at present sea level but some 200 m or so lower . |
| 26 | By early March , oil had come ashore at various points along a strip of Saudi coastline stretching some 130 miles south of the Kuwaiti border . |
| 27 | The largest and most colourful of them showed a woman with a shotgun , blasting away at Red Indians . |
| 28 | In that early ‘ moment ’ , rock 'n' roll was an important intervention though carried through at varying levels of conscious awareness . |
| 29 | In addition , Alexander Hardinge , who had replaced Wigram as private secretary to the King and who constantly saw his loyalty as lying with the institution and not with the person , was available to come over at short notice and did so . |
| 30 | But the moment Vincente 's back was turned the ball tended to squirt off at eccentric angles — or , worse , refuse to move at all . |