Example sentences of "[vb -s] [verb] [adv] at [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ League points are still important to us and nobody wants to miss out at this stage of the season . ’ |
| 2 | He has travelled abroad at sensitive times . |
| 3 | Although it 's usually impossible to prove the connection beyond a shadow of doubt , the finger of suspicion has pointed directly at sweet , sugary drinks . |
| 4 | So , with less publicity , has Smith 's team ; at least , it has come apart at one or two seams . |
| 5 | It is not advisable to give the dog free run of the car , however , simply because it could damage the interior , by scratching the upholstery , for example , if it wants to come out at first light before you are awake . |
| 6 | Patrick Parrinder has looked sardonically at this comforting but self-deceiving state of mind . |
| 7 | Alongside the formal structures , a network of informal relationships has grown up at all levels of the organization . |
| 8 | The interior has suffered seriously at Turkish hands and the frescoes have been badly damaged . |
| 9 | ‘ We included in our budget plans an estimate of seven per cent for the teachers ’ pay settlement and in fact it has turned out at 7.8 per cent . |
| 10 | Over the years this has averaged out at two gundogs and two rabbiting dogs . |
| 11 | But it 's not gon na take me longer at that time of the morning than it has done today at eleven o'clock or so is it ? |
| 12 | It is not within the scope of this book to offer a full account of the development of socialist realism in France , yet the point that needs to emerge clearly at this stage is that contemporary hostile assessments are themselves a product of a post-Stalinist epoch reacting violently against the crude excesses of Cold War politics and cultural policy . |
| 13 | ‘ M. Dupont has arrived here at this house , sir ? ’ |
| 14 | But something I would like to say , which no-one has touched on at all ; we 've all been talking about the laws that affect women and equal opportunities , and no-one has mentioned anything about the horrendous hours that are worked in parliament making it not impossible , but extremely difficult for women to become politicians working in parliament to be the people who make the laws , to be the people who can actually affect women 's roles in society erm everyone seems to accept the fact that our own parliament , totally dominated by men , and the sort of hours that only men can work , making it extremely difficult for women . |
| 15 | SUNDERLAND caretaker boss Malcolm Crosby has hit out at transfer-listed striker Thomas Hauser and told the towering target man to get his act together . |
| 16 | The Church of Scotland has hit out at local and central government for failing to bridge the care gap . |
| 17 | SINEAD O'CONNOR 's record label Chrysalis has hit back at tabloid criticism of the sleeve of her current single ‘ Success Has Made A Failure Of Our Home ’ . |
| 18 | However sound this may be , it is of course the case that many fellow citizens are themselves being denied this right by an economic climate which has made millions of people unemployed , and which has struck particularly at young people seeking manual work . |
| 19 | Whatever the reasons for inaction , rising unemployment has not been uniformly spread over the entire population , but instead has struck hardest at these who are already the most vulnerable . |
| 20 | In our case this iteration has gone on at great lengths and I and my colleagues have had to struggle to ensure that we have allocated enough time to deciding the direction in which the company should be going , and the changes that have to be carried out in order to get it there . |
| 21 | The guy says he was in a hurry to get home because he has to get up at six tomorrow morning because he 's donating some of his bone marrow so that his sister can have a bone marrow transplant … |
| 22 | Frequently this involves turning steeply at low speed to keep the radius of turn to a minimum and to make use of the narrow cores of lift . |
| 23 | Lewis , meanwhile , intends to turn up at each of Bowe 's fights to shame the IBF and WBA champion into fighting him . |
| 24 | Asthma tends to flare up at various times it 'll it tends |
| 25 | The subterranean world of the behind-the-scenes television power-brokers gets to meet up at these events . |
| 26 | It keeps coming out at 70 SpecMarks , it says . |
| 27 | The research aims to look both at personal characteristics , such as age and sex , and also at company characteristics , such as the number of employees at the workplace . |
| 28 | A curfew imposed by the government is still in effect , although it seems directed more at confining soldiers and policemen to their barracks than at keeping civilians off the streets . |
| 29 | I 'll have to catch the 7 a.m. train to Nottingham , which means getting up at 5 a.m. to put the slap on and climb into the overalls . |
| 30 | One last word of warning , if your pond does freeze over at any stage , do n't smash the ice as the shock waves created will also kill the fish . |