Example sentences of "[to-vb] [adv prt] at [det] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You do n't need any further underwriting to carry on at that level , but you can do . |
| 2 | It was cold in the stadium and a leaden sky threatened to weep down at any moment on the small crowd assembled below . |
| 3 | Patrick squirmed uncomfortably in the jumper and the trousers , which were at least two sizes too large for him — he felt as if they were going to fall down at any moment . |
| 4 | For a drainage level to come in at this depth would have required some 600 ft. of tunnelling and of course , since the art of blasting was not yet introduced , it would have been a protracted and costly operation . |
| 5 | Mr do you want to come in at this stage ? |
| 6 | They do n't want a completely unknown counsellor to come in at this time . |
| 7 | A touch of deja vu started to creep in at this point . |
| 8 | But when you go in on a subject like philosophy , to jump in at that level how adjusted you are it 's difficult if you 've not got any academic background to suddenly come in and have to start doing it . |
| 9 | I said you were mad to come over at this time . |
| 10 | The gap between the two , although only a few metres wide , is deep enough for my boat to pass through at any state of tide . |
| 11 | Breathlessly , Jenny poured out the news that the rear offside wheel of Miss Clinton 's car was loose , likely to come off at any moment , sooner or later certain to come off . |
| 12 | Like Miss Honey , she felt sure both ears were going to come off at any moment with all the weight that was on them . |
| 13 | She realised she was gripping the gun with two hands and had trained it on his chest , as if she expected him to leap up at any moment and lunge at her . |
| 14 | But he had to find out at some stage , did n't he ? ’ |
| 15 | Moreover you genuinely need to find out at this stage whether or not the job will suit you . |
| 16 | It was open to her to come back at any time . |
| 17 | Erm so er is there anything else we need to worry about at this stage do you think ? |
| 18 | There were six miles of gauntlet to run before reaching the open sea , and some damaged craft limped through this passage while others were still able to set off at some speed , making smoke cover with their special equipment . |
| 19 | Because you 're going to get into a situation where you 're taking amendments to the amendment and you well with great respect I think you would be better to duck out at this stage . |
| 20 | Or if they do manage to put you in a bedroom , remember that you 've got a whole camera team there , and they usually want to do some extraordinary shot from very close up , so they put you right on the edge of the bed , probably on a board which you 're about to fall off at any minute . |
| 21 | His mother was leafing through a huge pile of correspondence , the wire-framed spectacles perched on the end of her nose threatening to fall off at any moment , while Senga sat beneath the window , copying verses from an open Bible . |
| 22 | Blagg is n't the type to go off at half cock — |
| 23 | What a way to spend the morning , hammering away at the base of a bomb that is likely to go off at any moment . |
| 24 | I mean you get to this stage where a certain age you can say no you 're not having it because they 've got to start to grow up at some point and she likes using the felt tips and she 's usually not too bad with them |
| 25 | Their first attempt , however , was foiled when they lost the centre leaf and had to walk out at this point . |
| 26 | But you were too young to realise just how much work you have to put in at that stage of building up a business , how much effort it takes to hold the whole thing together and stop it from collapsing around you . ’ |
| 27 | ‘ I hate to bring the real world into this , but is your room-mate going to pop in at any second ? ’ |
| 28 | To ease off at any stage would undo all the good work . ’ |
| 29 | It is convenient to point out at this stage that , for colliding gravitational and electromagnetic waves , two of the scalar polynomial invariants ( Penrose and Rindler , 1986 ) are given by ( 8.2 ) It follows from this that , in order to prove the existence of a scalar polynomial curvature singularity , it is sufficient merely to show that the component 2 is unbounded . |
| 30 | It is also important to point out at this stage that Firbas ' notions of context-dependence/independence are much more restricted than Halliday 's notions of given/new : |