Example sentences of "[to-vb] [prep] [adj] quarters " in BNC.
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| 1 | If the visitor was unsuccessful , influences were brought to bear from other quarters , such as the clergy , the district visitor , or some other agency with knowledge of the family . |
| 2 | It was all very violent and distressing to observe at close quarters and the stench really brought it home to me . |
| 3 | By allowing Tepilit to engage in the formalities of gift exchange , she may have been able to observe at close quarters how it worked , but she was also entering into the drama . |
| 4 | He wishes to inspect at close quarters all the actors in this drama . |
| 5 | The snap punch is an ideal technique to use at close quarters . |
| 6 | Even human beings find this distressing to encounter at close quarters without any warning , and find themselves drawing back . |
| 7 | The dog , named before the pact between Stalin and Hitler , as Leonard was wont to emphasise in certain quarters , was a Scottish terrier of above-average sentiment and intelligence . |
| 8 | At the back there was a long low out-building , described , somewhat euphemistically , as the Dairy or Daye House , for which planning permission to convert into living quarters had been granted to the vendors , but never actually acted upon . |
| 9 | CD 's reference to his succeeding the experimental philosophical pig who had died from ‘ taking a bath at too high a temperature ’ , and thus falling a victim ‘ to his thirst for knowledge ’ is a jocose allusion to Pliny 's death during the eruption of Vesuvius , which he was trying to study at close quarters . |
| 10 | The next find gave us the chance to see at close quarters an auk , a fine winter-plumaged guillemot . |
| 11 | Harry and I were tall and strong , not easy to attack at close quarters . |