Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] [to-vb] [pron] at " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is so easy to overdo it at first so please be gentle with yourself . |
| 2 | But folded within it was a handwritten note ‘ So good to see you at the library , albeit briefly . |
| 3 | And the second thing she understood was the reason why she was indeed so desperate to keep him at a distance . |
| 4 | Similarly , it is because of the prevailing values of our society that it is so difficult to implement what at least to economists appear to be technically feasible solutions to our problems . |
| 5 | In order to enslave the English people , we might argue , it is only necessary to enslave them at election time : once in four years Is enough . |
| 6 | Duke of Monmouth , following in Oh So Risky 's footsteps , won last year 's Triumph Hurdle and will get the strongly-run race and fast ground so necessary to see him at his best . |
| 7 | Good thatch is difficult to obtain in many parts of the world , and in the Indian State of Kamataka peasants now have to buy bamboo at 1200 rupees a tonne on the free market ( about £80 a tonne ) whereas the paper industry is still able to get it at 15 rupees a tonne ( £1 ) from the government 's reserved forests . |
| 8 | ‘ Since Maisie was taken ill I have found it even more difficult to leave her at home sometimes , ’ she says . |
| 9 | For similar reasons BA , a Heathrow-based airline , was also keen to establish itself at Gatwick , thereby making itself the dominant airline at Britain 's two largest airports . |
| 10 | Nobody except his lawyers and myself know his whereabouts or have an address and it might be as well to leave it at that . |
| 11 | It was urged , on the one hand , that public opinion was not yet ready for the abolition of capital punishment and that it would be particularly unwise to abolish it at the present time when there was an abnormal amount of robbery with violence . |
| 12 | She expressed her condolences briefly and tactfully , in marked contrast to some of those present , who could n't quite bring themselves to approach the grieving widow but were quite prepared to quiz me at length about the details of Dennis 's last hours . |
| 13 | In general , in such languages , it is almost impossible to say anything at all which is not sociolinguistically marked as appropriate for certain kinds of addressees only . |
| 14 | She had washed , and felt quite fit to present herself at Pack Meeting . |
| 15 | Start by using each yarn for two rows of weaving — it can seem quite difficult to organise them at first , but you will soon start to be able to do this more quickly . |
| 16 | First off , its a little premature to judge them at this stage . |
| 17 | People would imagine that a type conference would be an extremely dull affair , but in fact it was like , barely able to control himself at any one time . |
| 18 | Her mother described her as a dog waiting for the next command , and all she wanted to do was hold out her arms and say ‘ Come here ’ , but she was completely powerless to do anything at all . |
| 19 | ‘ Nobody 's finding it very easy to meet him at the moment , ’ said Charlotte . |
| 20 | So it 's too dark to see anything at all in fact . |
| 21 | JENNIFER CAPRIATI , looking sharp as a pin in defeating Helena Sukova in straight sets , was actually lucky to see anything at all . |
| 22 | Indeed , she walked so far and so long that she was too tired to write anything at all upon her return and did not in fact send a reply until the following day . |
| 23 | Claudia accepted his arm round her shoulders as inevitable ; she was far too tired to fight him at the moment . |
| 24 | It 's very important to prove yourself at the top level because the gap between top amateurs and pros is not as wide as it was a couple of years ago , ’ he says . |
| 25 | He did not know what to do with it , Hailsham being far too busy to read it at the time . |
| 26 | You 're absolutely desperate to keep me at arm 's length . ’ |
| 27 | When she went out later she was too annoyed to do anything at all but roam around fuming . |
| 28 | Very difficult to quantify them at this stage but certainly it 's it 's my advice that er there will be distinct improvements in the environment . |
| 29 | ‘ I myself was much too young to question it at the time , but I found out later that there was a good deal of mystery surrounding his death . ’ |
| 30 | It may be very nice to have them at home , but the pattern of life does change . |