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

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1 Having arranged to meet Morton back at Old Jewry , Bragg took a train to Hackney Downs and walked the quarter-mile to the police station .
2 There was no time to think about it , because I had to pick Toby up at ten o'clock — at the crack of dawn , as he put it — to drive down to the Supersight factory .
3 He could tell she 'd been used to ordering people about at one time .
4 Turning things over at random and hoping to stumble on the sought object usually works when the space to be searched is small .
5 Saudi Arabia was going flat out at 10 million b/d , to the dismay of several members who would have liked this reduced to ease the market glut they felt the Saudis had created .
6 There was a metal grab bar and two bolts on the outside , one at the top , which could have had padlocks on at some time , to keep playful kids out .
7 He added : ‘ They wake people up at one or two o'clock in the morning with their laughing and shouting . ’
8 That he was sorting George out at last .
9 Did you hear daddy up at half five this morning ?
10 In year 5 , demand levels off at 3,500 units — the firm , though , already has the thirty-five machines necessary to meet this demand and so no new investment is necessary . .
11 It 'll be worse now , in retrospect , it 'll worse phoning Amy up at that moment and asking what the name was .
12 He could hear vehicles moving along the road , dropping storm-troopers off at regular intervals as they started to search the forest .
13 So tha that is , mam picks phone up at other end .
14 And you see there 's no permanent fence to the fields and so therefore I could put gates up at that road if I wanted to , but the Council has never consulted me about going to look at it , or going over my road .
15 Wright , who helped Ireland whitewash Ghana in Dublin earlier this month , has landed a new coaching job in his native California and ca n't get time off at such short notice .
16 I 'll check things out at this end to see if anything might be causing it here — you ca n't all have just suddenly changed your addresses !
17 ‘ He just makes a mockery of those who write players off at 32 or say the Premier League is for young athletes .
18 Corsie drew shot , but King beat it to tie things up at 6-6 , before Corsie prevailed on the next end to take the set 7-6 and force the decider .
19 Corsie drew shot , but King beat it to tie things up at 6-6 , before Corsie prevailed on the next end to take the set 7-6 and force the decider .
20 He 'll have to show people round at low tide , and get them off before it turns .
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