Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] at any [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ We must hope before you go to Oxford mother will have relented enough at any rate to make writing to you possible . ’ |
| 2 | Another girl , who looked wretchedly unhappy and as if she might be going to fade away at any moment , practically had a miscarriage on stage one night as a result of some pills she 'd been made to take by her awful lout of a lover . |
| 3 | The case was about the liberty of the press to comment freely at any price . |
| 4 | The taxi was clattering away and I thought it would fall apart at any moment . |
| 5 | You know perfectly well that your husband 's mother lives at a considerable distance , in point of fact in a suburb of Sheffield , and that she has never at any time offered to look after your children . " |
| 6 | The County Council has never at any time considered a paper or come to a conclusion erm on the preferred general location for the new settlement . |
| 7 | In some houses the fire grate was loose in the wall and looked liable to fall away at any moment … perhaps when full of live coals and with a pan of boiling water . |
| 8 | Whenever I hear a man being witty or sensible or kindly or civilized I think : the qualities which now seem so much a part of this man could be stripped away at any time , and there would be left just a man who suffered and who fought with his suffering like an animal . |
| 9 | I 'm equally confident that the higher direction of MI5 and those operating today do not have anything to do with this , nor have they done so at any time . |
| 10 | If Sabine had wanted to break away and work on her own she could have done so at any time . |
| 11 | If he had ever wanted to see her socially he could have done so at any time , but there had been only chance meetings since his marriage . |
| 12 | Does the Prime Minister agree that although there is scope for compromise on many matters at Maastricht , the one issue on which it is impossible to compromise is the difference between those who believe that Britain could and should join in a single currency and those who believe that we should not do so at any price and that we should never even have joined the exchange rate mechanism ? |
| 13 | A It can do so at any time . |
| 14 | These are automatically silenced at night and may be silenced manually at any time by operating levers which are neatly and unobtrusively located on the hand-crafted dial . |
| 15 | Commoners were discouraged from looking directly at any part of his person other than his feet . |
| 16 | They can also choose to behave differently at any time . |
| 17 | The major clubs are looking sympathetically at any scheme which will reduce the number of matches to be played next season . |
| 18 | Such comments about the DTI 's effectiveness as a corporate policeman could have been made almost at any time over the last 30 years and in a multitude of cases . |
| 19 | By looking hard at any way in which we can raise extra income for this authority . |
| 20 | The storm may break again at any moment and you will be drenched . |
| 21 | The basic set-up consists of rather basic apparatus out of a school laboratory — battery , heavy water , metal electrodes and meters for heat or neutrons — which is so widely available that the discovery could have been made anywhere at any time in the preceding half century ; but somehow it has been overlooked by two generations of scientists until suddenly in 1989 not one but two groups in the same location simultaneously announce their breakthroughs . |
| 22 | ‘ Means I do n't have to drive home at any rate , ’ she said . |
| 23 | ‘ Not a risk we want to cover alone at any price . |
| 24 | 2 Do n't run directly at any dog or owner — run at an angle and watch the dog . |
| 25 | Look carefully at any windows in hallways , corridors and on stairs to decide whether you should curtain them , blind them , shutter them or leave them alone . |
| 26 | ( To reduce the risk of over-speeding with modern machines , the airbrakes can be opened fully at any time during the spin or the recovery . ) |
| 27 | She grimaced a smile at each of them , and nodded hurriedly at any remark directed at her . |
| 28 | There is no easy solution to this one , other than doing the first ones at a safe altitude , which means at some speed since it is difficult to fly slowly at any height or distance . |
| 29 | Having been told by the gentleman at passenger enquiries that the Lowestoft train is one of the few in Britain to retain six-seater compartments , I am fully prepared to adopt my usual routine for such occasions ; I intend to rush on , secure an empty compartment , slide the door behind me , adopt the brazen-hussy-like pose of an Amsterdam whore in her front window ( tongue rolling out and knees wide apart , as I slouch across the upholstery ) , crook my index finger and beckon slowly at any commuters passing along the corridor outside who are considering invading my territory . |
| 30 | If it sits at the bottom of your belly , glowering like a smouldering fire , threatening to explode suddenly at any time and paralyse you ? |