Example sentences of "[vb mod] [vb infin] [adv prt] at [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Do not invest money which you may need back at short notice . |
| 2 | Any problems with the wording of the draft questionnaire should show up at this stage and can be corrected before the real investigation starts . |
| 3 | Thus was born the idea of the W particle , which , according to the latest versions of the theory , should weigh in at some 85 times the proton 's mass , just as two teams at CERN found earlier this year . |
| 4 | She really should go out at unaccustomed times more often , she thought . |
| 5 | Statistically only 0–05 per cent of chance tetrads should come out at this length or less , so that the expected number of alignments like Craigeam lies between 0.00041 for standing stones and 0.0037 for stone circles . |
| 6 | Oh one other thing I should point out at this stage , erm on the back of some of these |
| 7 | It appears to me therefore that if a man diligently followed this desire , pursuing the false objects until their falsity appeared and then resolutely abandoning them , he must come out at last into the clear knowledge that the human soul was made to enjoy some object that is never fully given — nay , can not even be imagined as given — in our present mode of subjective and spatio-temporal experience . |
| 8 | ‘ I mean , you should get up at all . |
| 9 | The bowling rate for each batsman should start off at Slow for the first ‘ over ’ of six balls , then go to Medium for the next over , and Fast for the third over ; this sequence then repeating if the same batsman is still at the crease . |
| 10 | If it is only 20 francs , Father will perhaps give me another 10 … and then I 'll rush off at tremendous speed . ’ |
| 11 | There was no sign of her in the street but a taxi might draw up at any moment . |
| 12 | She looked as though she might slide off at any moment . |
| 13 | I 'll tell you what we 'll go over at half past four will it be finished by then ? |
| 14 | No it 's to much of a , I hate saying I 'll go out at eight o'clock and tell him to be home and at quarter too eight he has n't come and oh , I 'm to tired really , but , so I 've always played it that I will help when I when I can , but uhum , I do n't go on the committee , cos then your stuck , you 've got to go . |
| 15 | I 'll go in at first , I 'll see how much that 's gon na be which is about seven hundred pounds . |
| 16 | Zen was still irrationally worried that Gianluigi might walk in at any moment , hunting rifle in hand . |
| 17 | No , no but you might go in at that time wanting help |
| 18 | Alone with Guido in the little boat , she 'd felt a constant sense of danger , like sitting on a time bomb that might go off at any second . |
| 19 | In our nearest village , eight miles away , the shopkeepers turned in their beds and slept on : the first wisp of turf smoke might curl up at nine , the first tractor rattle in at half-past . |
| 20 | She 'll come in at seven . |
| 21 | You know , when I 'm not supposed to be out and I 'll come in at ten thirty when all the others and they do n't say anything . |
| 22 | I 'm only gon na get it four foot deep with it anyway it would n't be four foot deep all over , it 'll start off at two foot and then slightly slope down to the deep part |
| 23 | This limit means that primordial black holes could make up at most one millionth of the matter in the universe . |
| 24 | I mean , by the time you 'd set off walking you could set off at eleven and walk there till twelve go in there till two then you |
| 25 | The wardrobe was unbelievable , you could walk in at one door and out of the other , several yards away . |
| 26 | I could go on at great length on all these topics ; it would be very pleasant for me to say what I think and relieve Monsieur Geoffrey Braithwaite 's feelings by means of such utterances . |
| 27 | So I could go on at great length , colleagues , to tell you that he 's on this committee and that committee well er and that would take me a good half hour because he 's , he 's on , he 's involved in everything in everything in the Party in the union erm , and his commitment is absolutely second to none . |
| 28 | Er I could go on at great length about it if you wish me to but I 'm sure you do n't . |
| 29 | When you 'd done your thirty years , you 'd go off at two-thirds pension . |
| 30 | Given the right conditions they could flare up at any time . |