Example sentences of "[adv prt] [pos pn] [noun sg] at [adj] " in BNC.

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1 That is a great deal of money Minnie which I do not need to tell you and would without doubt enable me to bring over my first-born at long last .
2 Britain 's union structure was one of a series of ‘ fragmented monopolies ’ , each monopoly looking over its shoulder at other monopolies and exploiting the comparison whenever it was to its advantage .
3 The company now has the muscle to dominate its industry , without having to look over its shoulder at anti-cartel officials in Brussels .
4 Because the machine 's speed is reliant upon the whim of its rather dim-witted crew , the player has little control over its speed at all .
5 It would seem to be middle sized undertaking , since the very large business will employ personnel managers and legal experts who need no introduction to the subject , while the smaller operator ( the book quotes the average number of goods vehicles per operator 's licence as no more than three trucks ) is normally too concerned with driving by the seat of his pants while looking over his shoulder at legal requirements ( one may envisage ! ) to worry unduly about the skills of communication or the restrictions on picketing flowing from decisions of the courts as well as statute in the event of a major dispute .
6 Standing beside the water tank , on top of the caravan 's portable step , Pa looks as tall as a Zulu in his red stole ( brown , for me ) with the black umbrella held over his head at full stretch by Ma who is standing behind in the mud and wet with a white towel draped over her arm and her hair flat and all dark with water .
7 He got off his bed at five and decided to ride over into Grasmere that afternoon .
8 You would , of course , be free to break off our association at any time you chose .
9 I set up my equipment at this new site , and watched and waited .
10 I gave up my job at 60 .
11 For a girl to take up her pen at all , then , is an act of great self-assertion .
12 She even acknowledges she was tempted to give up her job at one stage and go on to social security as she would then have been entitled to free legal aid .
13 Zlatko Matgigic is setting out his future at new restaurant at the Springhill Centre near Aylesbury .
14 She would run around her pen at such speed that the centrifugal force would keep her on the vertical walls like a Wall of Death rider .
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