Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [adv prt] at [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Seeing Alice 's commenting face , Muriel said swiftly , " But he only got back at three this morning , and those Channel boats … |
| 2 | We are concerned in fact that er the western nations did n't rather deplore earlier er Hussein 's actions against his own people using chemical weapons , and we think it 's a shame for us that we 've only come in at this point , and we must come in carefully I think . |
| 3 | Had she herself perhaps dropped off at one point ? |
| 4 | A Sergeant with a crudely reconstructed pink blob of a nose — obviously bitten off at some stage in his professional or previous career — sat at a damascened bronze data-desk stained green with cupreous patina . |
| 5 | Leave about one o'clock get in at half four . |
| 6 | I do n't know how you can be so tired when you only get up at half past ten in the morning ! |
| 7 | I think we 'd better switch off at this stage . |
| 8 | To your benefit , so turn up at half eight , nine o'clock whatever it is . |
| 9 | A photographic memory enabled him to avoid the obvious suspicions which Special Branch officers noting the proceedings obviously fell under at such meetings . |
| 10 | and we we 've always thought that , you know , to have a beat officer that was going around that could perhaps turn up at any time , would at least be some deterrent in so much that |
| 11 | no the English news only comes on at half past ten at night and then you 'll get what they wanted to hear , so you do n't have to listen to the World Service |
| 12 | The towns which thus sprung up at some railway centres are examples of the way in which individuality was lost , and lately the housing estate has spread a new uniformity even more widely over the country . |
| 13 | Most conductors just sit down at that point and , beyond making sure that the orchestra kept up with the stage , leave the music to its own devices . |
| 14 | But in this particular lesson the decision structure is something of a mirage , for as we have already pointed out at this stage the situation is not real enough for these children to be making anything but a superficial gesture — going through the motions of making a decision . |
| 15 | As we have , therefore , travelled together through so many pages , let us behave to one another like fellow-travellers in a stage coach , who have passed several days in the company of each other : and who , notwithstanding any bickerings or little animosities which may have occurred on the road , generally make up at last , and mount for the last time into their vehicle with cheerfulness and good humour ; since after this one stage , it may possibly happen to us , as it commonly happens to them , never to meet more . |
| 16 | The technology has evolved from operations already carried out at coastal sites in Scotland in which lengths of oil and gas pipelines are made into bundles which are towed offshore at control depths for installation at oil and gasfields . |
| 17 | The single European market means health checks are no longer carried out at British ports . |
| 18 | They do n't just give up at 25 or 30 to worry about the children . |
| 19 | There is no reason anyway to reinvent the wheel , and we need to know initially what is already going on at different levels , in different forums , in different geographical areas , before engaging in a pilot project to network available training and encourage initiatives where there are gaps . |
| 20 | Election Call , the daily phone-in , has attracted audiences of more than a million , compared with between 300,000 and 700,000 who normally tune in at that time . |
| 21 | I had peripherally helped out at anti-apartheid offices , even gone on CND Easter Marches when I first came over , but it was always on the sidelines . |
| 22 | At this stage Vigilant was ten miles away moving in at eleven knots while the three other cutters were twenty miles away converging at twenty knots . |
| 23 | Hilda , deep in her reading , nevertheless perked up at this and shot a sharp glance in Mr Kronweiser 's direction . |
| 24 | From the parking area above , you can easily walk down at either end of the crag , but it 's much more fun to follow the path leftwards and make a free 25 metres abseil through the blow-hole in the roof of the enormous cave of Baume Percée . |
| 25 | He said just go in at any time and we 'll pick it up . |
| 26 | But they were soon rounded up at nearby Maidenhead railway station . |
| 27 | How many erm are already signed up at this present day for someone to follow on to now ? |
| 28 | Oh well no I wo n't do that I 'll just drive round at five mile an hour in front of ya . |
| 29 | She and her husband Elfed James , a miner , after renting a couple of rooms , soon ended up at 73 Caradoc Street , the top end , the scullery butting against a mountain leaking coal juice known as ‘ the Side ’ . |
| 30 | Well that he does he usually goes down at half six quarter to seven . |