Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] at [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 It was more than a shock I put my head in my in my hand and I remember kneeling right at this spot and just crying my heart out .
2 When she 's taking solids , she wo n't want much at each meal .
3 Jarvis managed to bowl only at half pace in the match against Hampshire at Basingstoke which petered out into a draw yesterday and he is still being troubled by a sore hamstring .
4 The net wickets at Queen 's Park were considered too dangerous and , indeed , the five specialist seamers were allowed to bowl only at unguarded stumps .
5 If the government decides to cut its expenditure , or if there is a loss of export markets , or if domestic firms decide to invest less at all interest rates ( perhaps because they are less confident about future economic prospects ) , then the unc line will shift downwards .
6 First we should ask whether it is necessary to popular participation that all should be gathered together at one time in one place .
7 Like warts and bristles , structures protruded from the main mass : long strands of metal gridwork , a heap of vitreous bubble-forms , metal boxes welded together at haphazard angles .
8 I do intend to er to attend inaugural meetings with each of the C P O s er with a view to looking I mean obviously at some stages you said to me that I would probably have to attend at short notice
9 THE VALLEY OF THE River Lune between Sedbergh and Kirkby Lonsdale is bounded on the east by a lofty range of hills forming a continuous high skyline broken only at one point where a pronounced gap indicates the narrow cutting of Barbondale , carrying a lonely road over a low watershed to Dentdale .
10 Months ago they were passing strangers , chucked together at check-in times .
11 Shrugging , she gazed pointedly at two Wrens she had not met before .
12 To detect any contamination of samples before breaking the code , negative controls of sterile water were included with the samples in a ratio of one negative control per three samples and treated identically at each stage .
13 A few checks will soon show which tags ( if any ) connect together at each position of the switch .
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15 ‘ We must hope before you go to Oxford mother will have relented enough at any rate to make writing to you possible . ’
16 Ankles remain together at all times and feet should be over the knees .
17 By autumn 1990 Chameleon had been installed successfully at 12 sites throughout Europe , but Intergraph felt that a third party with a ‘ wider skill set ’ was needed to exploit the system 's full potential .
18 An accompanying booklet gives advice on timber selection , and how timber can be harvested locally at minimal cost .
19 ONE allowance which looks almost certain to disappear altogether at some point in the not-too-distant future , judging from its treatment in the Budget , is the married couple 's allowance , or MCA .
20 One can only deduce that the Eurasian and African plates began driving together at this time , with the latter dragged down beneath the rising Alpine mountains .
21 The men sleep together at one end of the dwelling , on a raised ledge covered with more clean straw which , of course , must be brought with them .
22 Then it stays in the burrow alone , visited only at feeding times , for nearly two months .
23 I 'm not sure whether Mrs is either able or would wish to comment necessarily at this stage but er and I but is there any possibility that in the course of the operating the R P G , although I know that circulates to me certainly .
24 It was n't that I was n't listening , I heard him all right ; but I was busy with my own thoughts , or , rather , my own feelings — the two were inextricably mixed together at this moment — and what he said was merely a background to the tumult that was going on inside me .
25 Responding to SCOTVEC 's suggestions , however , the Prison Service has now created a support structure across institutions which ensures parity of standards and allows Instructors to come together at regular intervals for staff development sessions .
26 Mills were often built on an estuary where the water could be trapped upstream at high tide by sluice gates .
27 One can think of these fluctuations as pairs of particles of light or gravity that appear together at some time , move apart , and then come together again and annihilate each other .
28 Each of several characters is followed through twenty-four hours and their lives touch only at certain points in the narrative .
29 Say aloud at normal speed : ‘ Me th ylated sp ri ts are not o ft en e ff erve sc ent , are th ey ? ’
30 Not only is there a failure to work together at local level , but central government also fails to provide the framework of legislation and subsidy that would enable housing and social services departments to address jointly the aspirations of disabled people .
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