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

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1 Dyson sat pouting and rubbing his hands together , glaring down at various parts of the table .
2 THE case must be made again for judges to stand down at 70 years of age .
3 But for newcomers it is daunting to stand on the brink of Genghis Khan — one of the runs in China Bowl — and gaze down at unending acres of snow .
4 Jannie sat down at one corner of the great kitchen table and began to write a shopping list .
5 Thus tree rings are differentiated by the types , density and size of cell laid down at different times of the year ; varves by the gradation in particle size resulting from sedimentation of debris released into rivers and carried to lakes by the annual melt of glaciers ; and ice core layers by differences in dust content and acidity .
6 From the parking area above , you can easily walk down at either end of the crag , but it 's much more fun to follow the path leftwards and make a free 25 metres abseil through the blow-hole in the roof of the enormous cave of Baume Percée .
7 His hands came down at either side of her , trapping her against the wall .
8 Shifts split up the family so that men would be coming in at all hours of the day , waiting for the bath-tin and the water and a woman to wash their backs .
9 In a cavity between it and the central part of the body , most species have gills which are continually bathed by a current of oxygen-bearing water , sucked in at one end of the cavity and expelled at the other .
10 ( See Hall v Marians 19 TC 582 , Wild v King Smith 24 TC 86 , IRC v Gordon 33 TC 226 cf Lord Radcliffe in Thompson v Moyse 39 TC 29 at 337 ; it is not felt that Harmel v Wright 49 TC 149 at 159 alters the position because if one is " keeping one 's eye " ( p157E ) on the income and benefit it does not find its way to the United Kingdom ( it is hardly the case that the income and benefit " come in at one end of a conduit pipe and pass through certain traceable pipes until they come out at the other end to the taxpayer ( in the United Kingdom " ) ) . )
11 Overall , equations ( 9.78 ) and ( 9.79 ) allow for a signal being fed in at one end of a transmission line , propagating along it and being partially reflected at the other end to give a wave travelling in the opposite direction .
12 But you were too young to realise just how much work you have to put in at that stage of building up a business , how much effort it takes to hold the whole thing together and stop it from collapsing around you . ’
13 What about livestock would they have been in at that time of year ?
14 So erm in fairness to him I think he was plunged into something he did n't have a hell in er hope in at that time of coping with .
15 The twin solutions to equation ( 9.15 ) of equal positive and negative phase shifts correspond to the possibility of feeding a signal in at either end of the symmetric section and loading it with its characteristic impedance at the other end .
16 Donations to the ‘ Around the Isles ’ charity fund for multiple sclerosis may be paid in at any branch of the Halifax Building Society and Bank of Scotland .
17 Many of the plants can be put in at any time of year , except for the dahlias .
18 He often dropped in at this time of day , and frequently stayed for a drink on the veranda and an inspection of Faye 's work in the air-conditioned studio at the back of the house that would be used more and more as the hot summer approached .
19 But they 're all going to wonder why I dragged you along at this time of night .
20 In that early ‘ moment ’ , rock 'n' roll was an important intervention though carried through at varying levels of conscious awareness .
21 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 .
22 Inside , the headmaster 's room is partitioned off at one end of the building .
23 The dark a long way off at each end of the day
24 they 've lined one up at each end of the field so it , it looks like they 're saying , well , you know that 's a parcel of land .
25 His early ventures into freelance design had been reasonably successful ; with Leonie 's encouragement he worked long hours as a restaurant porter to earn enough money to buy a couple of ancient industrial machines which he set up at one end of the living room of his mother 's house .
26 The children line up at one end of the room with the organizer ( grandmother ) at the other .
27 But in Heartbreak Hotel , which has a real deep echo , they had a speaker set up at one end of this long hallway and a microphone at the other end , and a sign on the door saying ‘ DO N'T OPEN THE DOOR WHEN THE RED LIGHT IS ON ’ .
28 The bears line up at one end of the room .
29 Alongside the formal structures , a network of informal relationships has grown up at all levels of the organization .
30 ‘ I do n't remember it coming up at that meeting of Senate , ’ says Philip .
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