Example sentences of "[to-vb] at [adj] or [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Lateral Formed by an obstruction placed in the middle of the mouth , the air being free to escape at one or both sides , eg /I// Nasal Formed by completely closing the mouth at some point , the soft palate remaining lowered so that the air is free to pass out through the nose , eg /m/ . |
| 2 | Does ‘ read ’ mean ‘ studied assiduously from cover to cover ’ or ‘ borrowed to look at one or two chapters ’ or ‘ glanced at in a library ’ ? |
| 3 | right , now if you want to understand how to tie down , you just need to look at one or two tied in lines , and then you can , you can add , oh you can add your main lines what I 'm trying to say is , when it comes to , when it comes to , when it comes to , when it comes to selling , there 's a lot more than just what might you 've got , right , see I mean , I see for instance , you 've probably , you probably do n't , you probably do n't , you probably do n't go along right quite often right , people will buy what products can do with them , they do n't buy the products , are you with me ? |
| 4 | I think that the C I A , er , would accelerate potential for chaos , I do n't think one needs necessarily to look at 1789 or 1917 too know how great will be the dangers of civil war , possibly starting from entering public boundaries dispute , or of militaristic counter coups which threatens neighbours and rather in a , possible in a way . |
| 5 | She becomes one with her instrument , lifting her head occasionally to smile at one or all of the band , or someone in the audience , but there 's a flow to the music that in my experience , is almost without parallel . |
| 6 | The shifts in pace , in tone , in level , come at us without warning , so that even as one part of the brain tries to grasp at this or that , to make sense of it before moving on , the rest responds to the exhilaration of being swept along the verbal equivalent of a ghost railway . |
| 7 | The neighbours thought him very odd , because he would start to carve at two or three in the morning when he came home . |
| 8 | She learned to pray at two or three , and felt chosen to preach the gospel to the heathen from eleven . |
| 9 | We traditionally take two wicket keepers on tour , Alec Stewart is one of them , but he 'll be opening the bat and we need the best wicket keeper and someone to bat at 7 or 8 and Jack Russell is the man . |