Example sentences of "[noun pl] [verb] [adv prt] at [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So while his real eyes glanced round at another vault of blank green rock , his A eyes saw the first of the ghosts sliding out of the stone to say hi . |
| 2 | Secretaries hit out at that bad office equipment |
| 3 | Indeed , in the pre-Conquest period , coins were produced at numerous mints to facilitate the transactions carried out at such centres . |
| 4 | To miss the odd target is acceptable , but not finds coming up at this rate and in such a confined area . |
| 5 | In their headlong rush they naturally tend to get their corners knocked off at each bounce , so they end up as peculiarly smooth , rounded lumps , the smoothness being the result of mechanical abrasion . |
| 6 | Patterned Fair Isle yoke pullovers came in at this time , then polo necks . |
| 7 | If they are then housed for the winter the immunity acquired by the end of the grazing season has waned by the following spring and yearlings turned out at that time are partially susceptible to reinfection and so contaminate the pasture with small numbers of eggs . |
| 8 | Children these days stay over at each other 's houses far more often than they did 20 years ago . |
| 9 | Give them a slightly acid compost , and do n't allow the plants to dry out at all . |
| 10 | If things carried on at this pace , she and Johnny would find themselves meeting every day . |
| 11 | In order to achieve the First Five-Year Plan , figures worked out at that moment estimated that the manpower necessary for attaining the production goals at 4.1 million workers and employees ( i.e. an increase of 1 million or 33% ) . |
| 12 | Were your hours coming down at all ? |
| 13 | Pinned above Beth 's bed , next to the card proclaiming her to be a spiritualist , was a photograph of a male dancer from the newly formed Royal Ballet , and I came in one day soon after I arrived at Huntingdon to find a knot of giggling girls peering up at this dancer , who was poised on one foot , wearing an agonised expression and very tight tights . |
| 14 | The temptation for teachers to cut off at this point and move on to something easier and less controversial is great , but the real value of RE lies in following the development through . |
| 15 | His hands came down at either side of her , trapping her against the wall . |
| 16 | Lots of pupils give up at this first hurdle . |
| 17 | Outside of London , too , generally over the South , the West and the South-east , a decline in real wages set in at some point in the two decades centred on 1760 , as money wages fell behind rising prices . |
| 18 | And then , all I 've done is worked out some time management and say well if these guys turn up at half past eight every morning and I give them a break at ten o'clock , and they get a lunch break and then in afternoon , another break , and they finish at half past four , if everything goes to plan , by four o'clock Friday , my van should be backing up at the end of the production line to load itself up with a thousand widgets . |
| 19 | Ten shillings from Saturday morning , from when they when the men left off at half past four on a Saturday till six o'clock Monday morning , we got ten shillings and if and if we were on watch on th on the night time , cos we used to do one watch one week and one night one week and two nights next , cos there used to be the mate and erm three more sailors , used to take turns , well there was only four nights so the man who done the Monday night , they done the Friday night . |
| 20 | Many disabled , ( partly because of their disability and partly as a result of the inadequacy of public transport ) , are completely dependent on private or other vehicles to get out at all . |
| 21 | An RSPCA official said : ‘ This all seems very pointless because wasps die out at this time of year anyway . ’ |
| 22 | The time , twenty one minutes past twelve and it 's erm the lunch time phone in with me John Simpson through till one o'clock , do n't forget we 've got the latest news headlines coming up at half past twelve , and if you want to join in the phone in you can now , Oxford three double one , one double one , the lines are open , there are lines free , so if you want to ring in . |
| 23 | I think Dufy is quite wrong ; John Piper is more the type , his peculiar banks and cliffs which have no vegetation on them whatsoever yet look as if they are going to have tiny green shoots peeping out at any minute . |