Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] [adv] at a " in BNC.
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| 1 | so of course that would 've come out at a later stage , yeah , you know there 's a lot of business miles involved in flying to all these er places . |
| 2 | She stopped looking up at a rocket : a towering metal redwood that had never flown because the ones that flew were junk scattered across the Gulf of Mexico . |
| 3 | An oil painting worth £12,000 and which was nicked from the Marquess of Bute in 1987 , has turned up at a car boot sale . |
| 4 | The Lebanese army did not enter a nearby camp used by Dev Sol , the Turkish urban guerrilla group , but were expected to do so at a later date . |
| 5 | The basic assumption of geometric perspective is that although parallel lines never meet , they appear to do so at a vanishing point , on a distant backcloth . |
| 6 | A nature garden has sprung up at a Bootle school where youngsters once had to play out in gas masks because of coaldust clouds . |
| 7 | be careful in the dusk , remember mirror , signal , manoeuvre once you start to overtake move quickly passed the vehicle you are overtaking , when overtake er , overtake only on the right except when the driver in the front has signalled that he intends to turn right , you can overtake him on the left , without getting in the way , when you want to turn left at a junction , when traffic is moving slowly in queues and be er , in a lane on the right and moving more slowly than you are , in one way streets , but not dual carriageways , maybe with a path on either side , when traffic is moving as described , do not increase your speed while being overtaken , slow down if necessary to let the overtaking vehicle pass . |
| 8 | man has hit out at a health survey which he claims is insulting and highly personal . |
| 9 | By late afternoon we 'd stopped in at a number of bars along the pier . |
| 10 | She woke a short while later under the impression that she 'd dropped off at a cocktail party . |
| 11 | They challenged a man who was seen acting suspiciously at a horses ' rest home near their RAF base . |
| 12 | The prescription of glasses is an exact science , and they are made to fit correctly at a specific distance from the eyeball . |
| 13 | He 'd woken up at a quarter past four that morning to find Lavinia awake beside him , as often she was now in the middle of the night . |
| 14 | ‘ I hope to get home at a reasonable time tonight , but it rather depends on what Kegan wants . |
| 15 | By the end of the war this culture had been defeated , and the victorious Puritans and their nonconformist allies who had gained control of the reins of central government believed they now had an opportunity to impose on the whole nation the same moral reforms that prior to 1640 they had struggled to instigate piecemeal at a local level . |
| 16 | She thought she saw a movement and turned to look again at a stone figure lying on a tomb . |
| 17 | He began hanging out at a seedy bar where transvestites , gay guys in leather jackets , and even butch lesbians , would lay him across a table and then crawl all over him . |
| 18 | The inexperienced , particularly , can not face selling out at a loss . |
| 19 | Where the line of stones breaks , lines of energy could be detected moving off at a tangent . |
| 20 | Having looked briefly at a number of issues — under-fives , black children in care , adoption and fostering , and young offenders — and highlighted problems such as the disproportionate custody decisions concerning young black people , she challenges the current position on policy and practice . |
| 21 | But he could not have come back at a more opportune time as far as Selkirk are concerned . |
| 22 | To heighten concern about the Convention , Broken Promise could not have come out at a better time . |
| 23 | They said that a state of infinite density might occur only if the galaxies were moving directly toward or away from each other ; only then would they all have met up at a single point in the past . |
| 24 | Rumours are circulating among the ‘ Highgrove Set ’ — the circle of Gloucestershire landowners who mix with the royals — that Charles and Camilla may have met briefly at a hunt a week ago . |
| 25 | The strength of the stock market has been built entirely on the belief that the economy is about to start growing again at a time when inflation , earnings growth and interest rates are all low and falling , creating ideal conditions for a period of non-inflationary growth . |
| 26 | I would have sold more at a car boot sale . |
| 27 | But then he started scribbling away at A Year in Provence and the rest is history . |
| 28 | Do n't try to give up at a time when you are already stressed . |
| 29 | But if the British Barlow Clowes operation had been within the licensing net , it is more likely that the Department of Trade would have found out at a much earlier stage that Mr Peter Clowes was running a parallel offshore operation — first in Jersey and then in Gibraltar . |
| 30 | They provide a picture of construction , production and wholesale areas as major growth areas on an ‘ all Wales ’ basis , but the pattern of growth was found to vary markedly at a county level . |