Example sentences of "[vb infin] [pron] at [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The highest type of firework last year if it was specified was the sparkler remarkably enough and we would make this point very seriously that parents tend to give children sm very small children sparklers and they must remember tha that these things are fireworks they are dangerous they do get red hot er they must supervise them at all times when they give them sparklers cos they may wave them around they may se set somebody else 's clothing on fire with them they may get the sparks in their eyes if they get too close to them er and one particular danger of course is that they they may get hold of en the hot end when the firework has finally extinguished and they think it 's all finished with . |
| 2 | As George Orwell noted in 1984 , the fear that the thought-police might monitor everybody at all times was enough to keep Big Brother 's subjects in a state of paralysed terror . |
| 3 | He gyrated carefully so that he could see himself at all angles . |
| 4 | Pat puts his work clothes aside , so he can wash them at 60 degrees . |
| 5 | Belinda Hazel , 31 , said : ‘ Police should n't chase them at such speeds — then it would n't happen . ’ |
| 6 | With three directions , you can also belt it at 45-degree angles by moving the joystick with the fire button depressed . |
| 7 | I 'll sell them at ninety pounds , ninety five , one hundred one hundred pounds still with me , any more ? |
| 8 | I 'll sell them at twenty pounds then , in a single bid , are you all done at twenty pounds ? |
| 9 | I mean I mean I 've written a letter to my cousins in South Wales asking them if they can point me at any places that might record , but I 'll actually make the contacts . |
| 10 | She has lost the support of the town 's Social Democratic mayor , Peter Schönlein , who will not even let her represent him at official functions , and the political parties and their committees also systematically exclude her . |
| 11 | Different individuals may place themselves at different points in the middle of the continuum and use a range of varieties above and below their " home base " . |
| 12 | When he asked if he could take part , the gentlemen archers looked at him and at his bow and , thinking it doubtful he could hit anything at 100 yards , gave their permission if his father looked after him . |