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 . |