Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] [adv prt] 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 | I used to do a job which involved getting up at an unearthly hour while , as far as I could tell , the rest of the world slept . |
| 5 | A nature garden has sprung up at a Bootle school where youngsters once had to play out in gas masks because of coaldust clouds . |
| 6 | man has hit out at a health survey which he claims is insulting and highly personal . |
| 7 | Moreover once inflation has levelled out at an acceptable rate , aggregate demand can be expanded once again with the result that the actual unemployment rate will fall back towards NAIRU . |
| 8 | By late afternoon we 'd stopped in at a number of bars along the pier . |
| 9 | WELL , WHEN I OFFERED SIR WILFRED MY RESIGNATION , THE OLD BUGGER GAVE ME A SECOND-HAND YACHT HE 'D PICKED UP AT AN AUCTION … |
| 10 | She woke a short while later under the impression that she 'd dropped off at a cocktail party . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | A few lengths were produced and these amateurish efforts were seen by a director of Coles who was passing through Braintree and happened to look in at an art exhibition in the Institute . |
| 13 | Buy plenty at a time — or get them free from clinics — to avoid running out at an inconvenient moment … |
| 14 | The new models are about 20% more expensive than the models they replace , but are about three times more powerful , which it reckons works out at an average 2.5-fold improvement in price-performance . |
| 15 | The new models are about 20% more expensive than the models they replace , but are about three times more powerful , which it reckons works out at an average 2.5-fold improvement in price-performance . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | The inexperienced , particularly , can not face selling out at a loss . |
| 18 | Removal of water through artesian wells is held to be the reason why the tower began going off at an angle soon after building work began in 1174 . |
| 19 | Where the line of stones breaks , lines of energy could be detected moving off at a tangent . |
| 20 | Our UK customers first began to look shaky and soon afterwards began to shut down at an alarming rate . |
| 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 | Do n't try to give up at a time when you are already stressed . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | The government could have clamped down at an early stage with tough deflationary policies . |
| 27 | Wait for a suitable moment and say : " That is a very interesting point you have raised , Mr R. , which we might wish to take up at a later meeting , but I really do n't think it helps our problem at the moment . " |
| 28 | Smaller animals tend to have higher metabolic rates , just as the engines of small cars tend to turn over at a higher rate than those of larger cars . |
| 29 | ‘ Now , I sat up in bed last night reading papers because I did n't want to turn up at a meeting unprepared . |
| 30 | Well this is the situation where you would ideally you do n't want to have to look down at a speedometer . |