Example sentences of "[verb] [adv prt] at [art] [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Wycliffe had been booked in at the one hotel which remained open through the year . |
| 2 | Meanwhile , as ministers ' eyes glaze over at the thousand ‘ what ifs ’ thrown up by war , they would do well to remember Lord Salisbury 's deflatingly modest dictum from more than a century ago : ‘ The first object of a treaty of peace should be to make a future war improbable . ’ |
| 3 | Like thoroughbred horses chafing at their bits before an important race , they are liable at any moment to sprint off at a hundred miles an hour in the wrong direction . |
| 4 | So if I wanted to find out erm Let's do that one with the the N H S , and this time I want to know how much it 's going to be It starts off at a hundred pounds . |
| 5 | Individuals doing their own thing does not work , as Jacques Chirac found out at a 1988 Paris rally . |
| 6 | He glances round at the seventeen people — who are they ? : students ? , support-workers ? , staff ? — squeezed around the two tables . |
| 7 | It was only when I was actually up there and the music had stopped , and I found myself looking down at a hundred or so expectant faces , that I remembered the magnitude of the task in front of me . |
| 8 | She was looking down at the two children , her face animated as she turned the page of the book on her lap . |
| 9 | Graham grinned looking over at the two Art School girls , who were now sitting on the floor on the other side of the room , talking to each other . |
| 10 | You could see the prisoners looking back at the two bodies in the centre of the carnage ; there was a lot of blood now , spreading in pools . |
| 11 | He turned his head , looking back at the six T'ang standing amongst the pillars , watching him . |
| 12 | ‘ All right , keep it down , ’ he said , raising his voice , looking out at the twenty or so uniformed and plain clothes men seated in the room . |
| 13 | As he reached the landing he paused , looking around at the five closed doors that faced him . |
| 14 | Still hurrying along at a hundred miles an hour he leaned over towards me and lowered his voice . |
| 15 | ‘ I get up at a quarter-to-five most mornings . |
| 16 | This in effect meant that PFF actually did 45 sorties , but please to remember that few Pathfinder aircrew elected to opt out at the 45 mark and most carried on to the magic 60 , And further take note that over 100 PFF aircrew managed the ton ( 100 sorties ) . |
| 17 | Lin Foh hesitated , frowned , then glanced back at the two young Foreign Office men ; they were hardly protection for the Colonel ; rather , were deliberately overt presences with him , keeping an eye on him on the instruction of the Foreign Secretary . |
| 18 | in the first division its Oxford against Millwall at the Manor … it 's only four weeks since they fought out at a two all draw at the Den … |
| 19 | eh , the same number on four lines , but if were want to go out four people were to phone in at the one time |
| 20 | Right , well we , we have something which would actually solve that , erm , which would be of benefit to you , and would actually cut in at the six month period , and would continue paying your policy and your premiums , until your retirement age if necessary . |
| 21 | The girl was staring up at the two of us , wondering what was going on . |
| 22 | It worked out at the 10s 0d a week 7pension . |
| 23 | MANCHESTER City chairman Peter Swales yesterday hit out at the eight Premier League clubs who torpedoed the £13 million Bass sponsorship deal . |
| 24 | And Sue Rorstad chairman and managing director of Darlington based Poppies hit out at the six industrialists who praised the Government 's message of self reliance . |
| 25 | Chen pulled up sharply , almost thudding into Karr who stood there , his hands clenched at his sides , his great chest rising and falling heavily as he stared down at the three prone gangsters . |
| 26 | I looked down at the four orange cards on the counter , lining them up evenly . |
| 27 | Then the wizard looked down at the six big coins in his hand . |
| 28 | he looked down at the two hands locked onto his arm and then at the small man hurrying on ahead , and realized that he still had his chaperons , and once again they were not of his own choosing … |
| 29 | She looked down at the two pink roses , the green spray of fern . |
| 30 | ‘ They tell me betting-shops are littered with torn-up betting-slips , ’ said Morse , as he looked down at the two pink slips that Ashenden had handed to him . |