Example sentences of "[adv] [vb infin] [pron] at [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A system where the user presses a series of buttons without thought and gets exactly what he needs ( rather than what he at that stage thinks he wants ) is efficient but not entirely educational , any more than one so difficult that the user could only throw himself at the mercy of the person sitting at the reader 's adviser desk . |
| 2 | But remember it was Mrs Thatcher , who when she was arguing against the er European Monetary System , said you ca n't buck the markets , and ultimately that is true , or at least more precisely , you can only buck them at a cost , you can only buck it by buying or selling pounds , which messes up your money supply , or raising or lowering your interest rates at a time when you might not be wanting to do so . |
| 3 | Well Mrs Toad is having a sale in her shop + + she has laid out her caish + cash register + + an' a number of pots of tea + + it 's gon na be a special sale because + + so she has th' + a sign up saying + prices are slashed + so she hopes lots of customers will be coming along + to visit her + + while she ‘ s waiting for customers + she goes about setting out the rest of + of the shop + + for things in the sale + + an ’ she brings on + large cans of tin + of tea + + for + she can only carry one at a time + so she walks on with one and puts it on the counter + + |
| 4 | ‘ Our drivers can only negotiate them at a maximum of 15mph , ’ he said . |
| 5 | You 'll only spend it at the bar otherwise . |
| 6 | Because we can only understand it at a level of artificial instrumentation , and mathematical calculations on paper , we find it hard to imagine a little animal doing it in its head . |
| 7 | ‘ You 'd better drop me at the hospital . ’ |
| 8 | But then again , we can only hear them at the moment , but there are six of them . |
| 9 | Thus if my main concern is to have a vast stock of personal possessions and control over the lives of others , I can doubtless only have them at the expense of others . |
| 10 | He ca n't pay the television licence and tosses up every week between washing powder , toothpaste or soap : " I can only afford one at a time — personal hygiene is an expensive item . " |
| 11 | If mixing causes difficulties , will the dementia sufferers gain from a segregated day centre or segregated days in a day centre or hospital , or will this merely put them at a disadvantage ? b Literature Arie ( 1979 ) states that we need to know more of the pros and cons of integration in day hospitals . |
| 12 | Erm but we 'll do the questions together as a class and I would like you to just speak one at a time , otherwise it will all get blurry . |
| 13 | Do you just have it at the same time ? |
| 14 | But he could n't just leave her at the station . |
| 15 | That was going to be in May so we needed it to ship in April so I said , well you 've got to you 've got to still finish it at the same time . |
| 16 | If the object-glass of a refractor or the mirror of a reflector is of poor quality , the images will also be poor — and a bad telescope does not always betray itself at a glance . |
| 17 | He had fought off his anger , but Jenna could still see it at the back of his eyes . |
| 18 | ‘ I 'm afraid there 's no way I can possibly pay it at the moment . ’ |
| 19 | do n't always tell you at the time they just say |
| 20 | People will still receive them at the same time the story appears in the newspaper . |
| 21 | Why do n't you ever visit us at the Grange ? ’ |
| 22 | If she does , you never know , you could still find her at the old gym , this time in the Band . |
| 23 | Er a similar cautious approach which none of them took yesterday when on examination it was found that there was more potential there than before , erm so to help with the figures I have found very helpful erm appendix eight to the er York City Council erm statement , I think it appears in both of their statements appendix eight Greater York housing provision sorry , could could I also direct you at the same time to the County Council 's N Y five appendix three now the , the two make interesting comparisons because they both start of with the same H one proposal of nine thousand seven hundred dwellings , and I 'll remind you there , sir , that only five thousand seven hundred of those are required by the existing population , four thousand of those are for migrants , and the two schedules go of in slightly different directions under the heading of completions , and the reason for that , sir , is that the the Greater York , the er County Council 's figures , as you can see were computed in October nineteen ninety two when only seven hundred dwellings had been completed , yet six months later , under item C for the Greater York er housing provision figure , York Ci York City Council figures , the completions were one thousand and sixty three . |
| 24 | They will also meet you at the train stations . |
| 25 | So you could , yeah , you 've got his telephone number anyway , so you can also phone him at the same time . |
| 26 | I do n't think you can both stir it at the same time . |
| 27 | They will also find themselves at the centre of the debate over which sources are published and which are not . |
| 28 | No , they ca n't really say anything at the moment . |
| 29 | Twenty minutes later he had reached paragraph 9 when a voice from the next room told him that if he were typing anything other than his bloody resignation he should bloody well do it at a more civilised bloody hour . |
| 30 | Did n't even tell somebody at the door ! |