Example sentences of "[verb] [adv prt] at any [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For most Southern advertisers and agencies , however , 1993 will be a year of hanging on at any cost . |
| 2 | It was cold in the stadium and a leaden sky threatened to weep down at any moment on the small crowd assembled below . |
| 3 | Patrick squirmed uncomfortably in the jumper and the trousers , which were at least two sizes too large for him — he felt as if they were going to fall down at any moment . |
| 4 | If the investment managers had to come in they could have come in at any time . |
| 5 | A fill can be dropped in at any time while the pattern is playing . |
| 6 | A fill can be dropped in at any time while the pattern is playing . |
| 7 | The gap between the two , although only a few metres wide , is deep enough for my boat to pass through at any state of tide . |
| 8 | Breathlessly , Jenny poured out the news that the rear offside wheel of Miss Clinton 's car was loose , likely to come off at any moment , sooner or later certain to come off . |
| 9 | Like Miss Honey , she felt sure both ears were going to come off at any moment with all the weight that was on them . |
| 10 | Some pests are large enough to be gathered and destroyed by hand : caterpillars can be picked off at any time , while slugs and snails around vulnerable plants are easily collected by torchlight on moist evenings . |
| 11 | I do n't know if that 's come up at any point . |
| 12 | She realised she was gripping the gun with two hands and had trained it on his chest , as if she expected him to leap up at any moment and lunge at her . |
| 13 | It was open to her to come back at any time . |
| 14 | It can be carried out at any time when you feel the need , for example , when you are near anybody with a cold or ‘ flu ; when you are experiencing any form of fear ; when others are indulging in negative emotions ; in noisy surroundings ; first thing in the morning and last thing at night ; after meditating or giving intuitive aromatherapy massage . |
| 15 | It defines the project timescales and priority to enable individual workloads within the group to be planned through DOPACS , and it also important n needed-by dates , the milestones , within the project , which again through DOPACS enables checks on the physical and financial progress to be carried out at any time . |
| 16 | With the insertion of implants it could be carried out at any age , but the sensible option would be prophylactic mastectomy either at the completion of her family or at the menopause . ’ |
| 17 | They operate in basically the same way , but VITC coding has to be recorded onto the tape ( of course without being visible in the picture ) , at the time of shooting or while being copied onto a second tape ; RCTC coding on the other hand can be carried out at any stage of the editing process , and so is the more flexible of the two systems . |
| 18 | The encounter can break off at any stage in the process of escalation . |
| 19 | Marcus could have turned up at any moment . |
| 20 | She knew something , though not all , of his day 's programme : she 'd rung The Randolph at 10.45 p.m. and learned from the tour leader that her husband had not turned up at any point during the day to fulfil his commitments — and that in itself was quite out of character . |
| 21 | My father had another , everything was okay if you came out at any time after the thirty first of March , look all I 'm doing now is I was giving back , er taking my position as the company director , getting a salary off the rent in my farms and small holdings and my shares in shipping . |
| 22 | Or if they do manage to put you in a bedroom , remember that you 've got a whole camera team there , and they usually want to do some extraordinary shot from very close up , so they put you right on the edge of the bed , probably on a board which you 're about to fall off at any minute . |
| 23 | His mother was leafing through a huge pile of correspondence , the wire-framed spectacles perched on the end of her nose threatening to fall off at any moment , while Senga sat beneath the window , copying verses from an open Bible . |
| 24 | What a way to spend the morning , hammering away at the base of a bomb that is likely to go off at any moment . |
| 25 | When I began collecting material , one of the Blaxhall people offered me an open invitation : ‘ Drop in at any time if you want to know anything . |
| 26 | One last word of warning , if your pond does freeze over at any stage , do n't smash the ice as the shock waves created will also kill the fish . |
| 27 | ‘ If I had shown up at any exchange with that case , ’ said Quinn , ‘ they 'd have spotted it and killed the boy . ’ |
| 28 | The problem with price limits , of course , is that futures contracts are rendered completely illiquid : a position can not be closed out at any price when trading is suspended . |
| 29 | As you read through a book or long article , pause after each chapter or section and look back at any notes you have taken . |
| 30 | If you look back at any year you only get ten or 20 good records and they 're not likely to be all in one week . ’ |