Example sentences of "[to-vb] [adv prt] at a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's known as the Vadinamian Valve , and it 's big enough for only one ship to pass through at a time . |
| 2 | Where a problem seems obviously more complex they suggest that the client makes an appointment with an adviser to come back at a time when the bureau is officially closed to the public . |
| 3 | She checks daily that her changing bag is filled with essential and spare clothes and leaves it permanently packed in the hall ready to pick up at a moment 's notice so she 's never caught unprepared . |
| 4 | Due to the large spread ( i.e. difference between buying and selling prices ) , it usually takes a substantial rise to enable investors to sell out at a profit . |
| 5 | Clients unable to break even , let alone to sell out at a profit , found themselves locked in . |
| 6 | Ah equally um , just to go off at a tangent a bit , um there 're a number of more radical theorists , in particular the um in the Bonnie Burstow book Radical Feminist Therapy , would say that um rather like with other forms of sexual crime , the people who 've been victimised , people who 've survived , are often inclined to say something along the lines of mm y'know did i did I bring it on myself kind of kind of feeling . |
| 7 | A few lengths were produced and these amateurish efforts were seen by a director of Coles who was passing through Braintree and happened to look in at an art exhibition in the Institute . |
| 8 | Well this is the situation where you would ideally you do n't want to have to look down at a speedometer . |
| 9 | I picture richly rewarding learning environments : I walk , unnoticed , into a creative activities period in Jos ( Nigeria ) where the children remain too absorbed in their various tasks to look up at a stranger , however unfamiliar . |
| 10 | I was fortunate to grow up at a time when imperial measurements were generally used , but science was special in being both imperial and metric . |
| 11 | And in fact in the early stages I got one man working for me and er I went back into teaching again for a short time to help out at a school where the the the teacher was ill , and I was teaching in the morning and then doing two-man jobs in the afternoon , and he was doing one man jobs in the morning . |
| 12 | But if you ask him to spare a couple of hours to help out at a St John Ambulance fund-raising activity or a garden fête for the church roof repair fund , he might find that a worthwhile thing to do . |
| 13 | Bloomsbury House sent them to help out at a hostel . |
| 14 | He became lost in one of his dour moods so I let him be and went to the window to stare out at a dairy maid carrying pitchers of milk between the barns and the kitchen . |
| 15 | Just at that moment when everyone was crossing their fingers on her behalf , so she looked up and told Jim that she felt she would do better to play out at an angle . |
| 16 | Do n't try to give up at a time when you are already stressed . |
| 17 | As a rule he was unobserved , as he took care to go out at a time when everyone in the house was occupied elsewhere . |
| 18 | Easing the car into first gear , she set off back along the road , a frown deepening on her face as she was forced to crawl along at a snail 's pace , unable to see more than a couple of feet ahead in the ever-thickening snow . |
| 19 | It is , of course , possible for a solicitor 's written advice to include a ‘ brief ’ for the client to read out at a tribunal hearing . |
| 20 | For ages he had been meaning to call in at a place down by the Elephant and Castle where they sold gramophone parts , but it was not until this morning that he had finally got around to it . |
| 21 | For the first six months they have to live in at a training centre . |
| 22 | ‘ Now , I sat up in bed last night reading papers because I did n't want to turn up at a meeting unprepared . |
| 23 | The German romantic desire to escape from conflict and to arrive back at a state of harmony and unity is one of the most important psychological motives behind European federalism , and it ignores the basic fact that politics is always messy , divided and unharmonious . |
| 24 | The Fire was started to get back at a prisoner who had refused to take part in a food boycott . |
| 25 | Their aim is to give busy men and women the freedom , as far as their hair is concerned , to take off at a moment 's notice without having to spend hours in front of the mirror — these beliefs have certainly proved successful for Ralph and his team . |
| 26 | A proportion of the flights on each main operating base maintain themselves at ‘ quick reaction alert ’ ( QRA ) status , ready to move out at a moment 's notice . |
| 27 | ‘ And why the devil we have to rush off at a moment 's notice , I do n't know … ’ |