Example sentences of "[verb] [pers pn] at [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | These agents are toxic when given systemically , and so producing them at high concentration within the tumour is an attractive goal . |
| 2 | Toothed whales usually travel in pods and hunt fish and quid by pursuing them at high speed . |
| 3 | If they work , then I can introduce them at senior level . ’ |
| 4 | Germon and Shane Thomson are two of the gentlemen of New Zealand cricket , and one run later Germon took Thomson 's word for it that he had caught him at extra cover , and walked . |
| 5 | Not only does the battered town seem to have been on the receiving end of a good deal of good , honest , no-nonsense coppering , but it gives the impression that a higher authority , God , must have passed over it in the Fifties , blasting it at close range with His celestial hair-drier , to judge from the universally blistered and leprous paintwork on all the buildings . |
| 6 | ( Who knows , they may even enjoy a book so much that the next time the author is published they may even buy it at full price ! ) |
| 7 | Er the erm the environmental health check I think he did discuss it at fantastic length , the question of our public lavatories an an and the savings that can be made and the judgement it came to in the end was a , was a very one I think on the outlook against of what you can reasonably do , erm nevertheless I do gather that erm erm it is no longer necessary under standing orders , for erm amendments to the budget to be self financing because you can move amendments to simply increase the budget and er the amendment that I reserve I suppose , it 's not very much . |
| 8 | She was Smallfry 's mam , but she never , ever came to visit them at Old Ashfield . |
| 9 | Walsh dropped him at long leg off Ambrose on 22 then , at 66 , crucially , David Williams , another first-timer at this level alongside Adams and Benjamin , floored a regulation catch behind , thereby allowing Hudson further demonstrations of a trademark straight drive . |
| 10 | ‘ Just as I believe that the taking stock initiative improves the quality of government at national level so I believe that moving to single-tier all-purpose authorities will improve it at local level . |
| 11 | We have hold it at head office every week . |
| 12 | That had been rather exciting and they were prepared to recount it at considerable length until Narouz intervened and told them to shut up . |
| 13 | I 've seen it at closed hand . |
| 14 | Where properties are untenanted , Retirement Assured has valued them at open market value with vacant possession . |
| 15 | You could just see them at low water and er that was one of the danger points but I 've never seen ships coming close to Skerrymor at all . |
| 16 | Claudia drove the ten miles separating them at reckless speed . |
| 17 | Although they had made high mileage cars look like low mileage ones , they had sold them at high mileage car prices . |
| 18 | Apparently Kelly played well again … we might see him at right back vs Man City . |
| 19 | The Capitulary of Thionville in 805 , for instance , forbids usury , the kind of usury which involved buying cheap corn in quantity and selling it at excessive profit in times of scarcity . |
| 20 | Some deaths , injuries and serious damage have been caused by young people who take other people 's cars and drive them at high speed . |
| 21 | Their first single on Mother Records , ‘ 100 Boys ’ , captures them at full throttle , a Carmody self-dramatisation tied to glorious high energy punk-pop . |
| 22 | If , however , mutations affect both juvenile and adult survival equally , selection against their early effects keeps them at low frequency , and prevents the collapse of late survival . |
| 23 | He has been friendly with Holy Trinity 's vicar since teaching him at theological college in Durham . |
| 24 | Registry staff must be able to process information without introducing delays , whether it is receiving data from a student and subsequently providing an updated record for that student or taking a request from a lecturer for a list and providing it at short notice or processing an offer made by an admissions tutor so that the candidate hears from PCAS as quickly as possible . |
| 25 | And versatile international Joe Lydon has signed a new 12-month contract to keep him at Central Park . |
| 26 | When she played , charging him at full speed , she would often knock him over but always retracted her claws , which , when used for hunting in the wild , can tear a wild pig or deer apart . |
| 27 | They 'll shatter if Suragai pulls it at full stretch . ’ |
| 28 | They usually run them at below peak efficiency , they run The Russian reactors they tend to run 'em at maximum efficiency which is you 're very very close to the critical level where it could run away with a little mistake and whoops , you got Chernobyl . |
| 29 | ‘ How about joining us at Green Park tomorrow ? ’ |
| 30 | He believed , and Irina confirmed this , that Marcus had been , though initially hostile , glad to see him at Red Cottage because he was an acquaintance and someone to talk to . |