Example sentences of "[vb infin] [pers pn] at [art] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Twenty minutes later he had reached paragraph 9 when a voice from the next room told him that if he were typing anything other than his bloody resignation he should bloody well do it at a more civilised bloody hour . |
| 2 | This task is made all the more necessary by the fact that opponents of absolute holism often find it strongly counter-intuitive , not to say absurd ; although they can grasp it at a very general level , they have difficulty in imagining either how it could be developed , or what would make it plausible . |
| 3 | She 'd phone them at the very first opportunity , knowing how they would have worried . |
| 4 | ‘ From there , ferry and all , to the place where he was ambushed , would take him at the most half an hour . |
| 5 | This is not only the case of small linguistic communities vulnerable to quite modest demographic changes , such as the thinly-populated hills and coasts of Welsh-speaking Wales , or Estonia , whose 1m or so Estonian speakers would in any case place it at the very lower limit of populations capable of maintaining a modern linguistic culture at all levels . |