Example sentences of "[noun pl] [adv] [verb] at [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So landowners , from the king down to relatively small provincial lords , founded boroughs right and left , especially where they saw merchants and traders already congregating at some convenient spot — near the protection of a castle or an abbey , which were considerable markets also , at some important river-crossing , and so on . |
| 2 | Telegraph readers hardly swung at all . |
| 3 | Telegraph readers hardly swung at all . |
| 4 | The two witches suddenly looked at each other in horror . |
| 5 | Is the time of computer responses adequately controlled at each point ? |
| 6 | For hours , civilians of both faiths dutifully queued at these terrible checkpoints at each end of the Ring on the innocent assumption that the gunmen there merely wished to look at their identity papers . |
| 7 | But our needs hardly end at this classic trinity of processing aims : document preparation , linguistic content analysis , and categorical analysis . |
| 8 | Public finance economists often stop at this point , leaving the impression that all taxation does is to introduce inefficiency . |
| 9 | This has nothing to do with reference to any particular dog , or even whether dogs actually exist at all . |
| 10 | So when Else read this out 'e said that some of the 'oly men in the olden days never washed at all , and were crawling with lice . |
| 11 | Passengers in the early days of air travel had to be courageous and long suffering — qualities still needed at some airports today . |
| 12 | The problems really begin at this point . |
| 13 | In one direction you will see the normal wave movement of the needles knitting , but in the other direction the needles hardly move at all , that is they SLIP ( and , even if you 'd had yarn threaded and stitches on the needles , they would n't have knitted on this row ) . |
| 14 | Base rates then remained at this level for a year , before starting to fall in October 1990 , when Britain joined the ERM . |
| 15 | The team 's putting averages and sand save percentages hardly vary at all between all 12 members . |
| 16 | His arms hardly move at all — just the legs move , and his bare feet on the ground as he jumps up and down , and the long tuft of hair that bounces back and forth over his shoulder . |
| 17 | The night before the wedding the girls hardly slept at all and they did not chatter to one another as they usually did until they found sleep . |
| 18 | ‘ I work with Mr Mitchell or I refuse the assignment , ’ she snapped , her suspicions again aroused at this insistence on women only . |
| 19 | I 'm not sure there were too many decisions actually made at that meeting |
| 20 | The mammals also existed at this time , starting a little later in the mid-Triassic , but in very insignificant numbers and they were tiny until after the death of the dinosaurs , after which they had more fully evolved from the pelycosaurs and therapsids . |
| 21 | Good thinkers automatically work at this level , but it is not at all easy to define . |
| 22 | Both young men then glanced at each other , clamming up in some embarrassment as they recalled that the fortune they were at this moment vying for had been lost by Benedict Beckenham , for the story of the will was naturally common knowledge among his intimates . |
| 23 | Because the Advanced Courses officially finished at any time from June through to December 1984 , the question of timing became significant ( one course officially ends in early 1985 ) . |
| 24 | If DCE is accepted as a de facto standard , Novell says it may embed the modules NetWare , although it says this is unlikely to happen unless OSF reviews its DCE licensing fees currently running at some $2,500 . |
| 25 | The two men never looked at each other , their conversation a secret between them . |
| 26 | Warriors simply hacked at each other . |
| 27 | Laser engines undoubtedly rule at this moment in time but the LED looks like becoming a strong contender with devices like the NEC SilentWriter — it 's also inherently more reliable . |
| 28 | Daniel Omara Atubu and other elected representatives apparently protested at these mass arrests . |
| 29 | Outwardly , my habits hardly changed at all . |
| 30 | They were the flattest brick arches ever built at that time , and critics predicted their collapse under the weight of trains , but the viaduct was built in 1838 and is still in use , carrying trains from Paddington to the West Country . |