Example sentences of "[to-vb] [adv] at [num] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 THE case must be made again for judges to stand down at 70 years of age .
2 The commando parties were to come ashore at three points : over the bows of Campbeltown ; on the Old Entrance quays ; and on the Old Mole .
3 He managed to blurt out at one stage in the proceedings : ‘ I did n't have any dollars , no gold , I do n't smoke and I earn 3,500 lei a month . ’
4 They were jammed in a pack at the bar , having to talk loudly at eight inches ' range .
5 It was a further achievement that delegates from these two , until recently hostile , camps could clash sharply in debate during the conference without acrimony , although black consciousness delegates from Natal threatened to walk out at one stage .
6 He was seen to bend down at two drains near his home .
7 We were due to go out at 2000 hours .
8 But to bale out at 250 feet was tempting Fate too much — and although the parachute had just time to spring out of its canvas cover before the pilot hit the ground , no time remained for the canopy to open and check his fall .
9 Perhaps 20 items is a bit much to take in at one sitting , but choose your favourites and you will not be disappointed , as everything is captured in wonderful sound and expertly performed .
10 The pound fell heavily on the foreign exchanges to close down at one dollar , forty-three and down at two marks , thirty-six .
11 and er with my son particularly earlier on in his career things were going round and round in circles and in the end I had to step in at one point , grab all the papers as they came past as they were and saying , come on .
12 But she had to step down at one stage because she herself won the top prize of the day — and could n't present it to herself !
13 She remained well clinically to follow up at one year after onset of her colitic symptoms .
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