Example sentences of "[vb past] at [adv] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The invitation to appear on it came at very short notice , and even though she 's no longer modelling except at charity functions , she feels a need to keep in the public eye , so she did n't want to turn it down , but she insisted that Florian and I should keep to our plans . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ The government clearly counts on the pleasure and prestige the jobs afford to keep them filled at fairly low cost , but this wo n't help if the best scholars are constantly tempted to go abroad ’ , says Kauffmann , ‘ and now , new appointments or those who change jobs by moving or by promotion no longer have the same job security ’ . |
| 3 | They arrived at ever decreasing intervals , always the same pale bewildered collection of strangers , always with new and astonishing stories of battle and the day-dream world . |
| 4 | Protection usually began at fairly low rates . |
| 5 | He may end up with as many as sixty youngsters from several different broods which , because they hatched at slightly different times , are of several different sizes . |
| 6 | It just went at like slow motion . |
| 7 | But it is from after the change that we have evidence for Councillors like Kleon and the fourth-century Athenian Demosthenes whose year on the Council fell at improbably convenient moments for their political careers ; this makes one suspect corruption , a suspicion strengthened by Aischines ' direct accusation that Demosthenes bribed his way onto the Council in 346 ( iii.62 ) . |
| 8 | The four large middle-class suburbs grew at especially great rates — Charlottenburg from 20,000 inhabitants in 1871 to 323,000 in 1919 , a growth of 1,667 per cent ; Schöneberg from 4,500 in 1871 to 262,000 in 1919 ; Steglitz from 1,900 in 1871 to 83,400 in 1919 and Wilmersdorf from 1,662 to 139,400 . |
| 9 | It turned out that radio astronomy of this kind looked at extremely low temperature regions . |
| 10 | We also looked at how past experiences affected current relationships . |
| 11 | Dr John Prescott of the CSIRO , Australia 's national research organisation , and colleagues at the Sensory Research Centre in Sydney looked at how different amounts of capsaicin affected the flavour and intensity of solutions of sugar and salt . |
| 12 | Pink took at very little boy not |
| 13 | Taking over as she did at very short notice when our last Treasurer became ill , she has always managed to administer the Society 's finances in an extremely capable way despite the fact that the last six years has been a period of considerable change and economic difficulty . |
| 14 | This recommended at least perpetual peace between England and Scotland , and even a single monarchy . |
| 15 | In a large survey of almost 800 respondents in the Cotswolds , 38 per cent of elderly persons were found to have total dependence on public transport and a further 21 per cent had at least partial dependence . |
| 16 | This in turn ensured at least passive acquiescence in if not outright approval for the escalating inhumanity of Nazi anti Jewish policy , and provided the regime with an extensive sphere of autonomy , free from any constraints of popular disapproval , in adopting ever more radical measures towards providing a ‘ final solution ’ to the ‘ Jewish Question ’ . |
| 17 | The earnings from the pilgrims , who travelled at very low fares , amounted to £53,500 in 27 days . |