Example sentences of "[to-vb] [adv prt] at any [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was cold in the stadium and a leaden sky threatened to weep down at any moment on the small crowd assembled below . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Like Miss Honey , she felt sure both ears were going to come off at any moment with all the weight that was on them . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | It was open to her to come back at any time . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | What a way to spend the morning , hammering away at the base of a bomb that is likely to go off at any moment . |
| 11 | ‘ I hate to bring the real world into this , but is your room-mate going to pop in at any second ? ’ |
| 12 | To ease off at any stage would undo all the good work . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ They made the usual checks then , because I was allowed to go back at any time if there was a problem , they let me go home . |
| 14 | Make it absolutely clear , as I did , that you are prepared to fight back at any time of the day or night no matter how painful it may be ; and that you will keep on fighting until the day you finally beat them . |
| 15 | I spoke later to Jackie , lifeboat secretary , and asked him how many of a crew he had to call on at any time . |
| 16 | When WORKING disappears from the screen , the palette will have been saved to the disk , ready for you to call up at any time in the future . |
| 17 | If there 's anything you want to er er to ask me about , please do n't hesitate to er to butt in at any time . |
| 18 | Seaview is a very friendly place — friends and relatives are encouraged to drop in at any time , and residents feel they can talk to visitors even if they do n't know them . |
| 19 | The others were trying to drive the protesters away , and a fight seemed likely to break out at any minute , until a pair of uniformed police constables appeared , and stood watching them from the other side of the street . |
| 20 | I wanted to have that control in the studio , being able to step in at any moment . ’ |