Example sentences of "[adv prt] at this [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I sit down at this desk with a ledger . |
| 2 | This is Piladu 's place , but if you ask me there 'll be nobody in at this hour on a Saturday . |
| 3 | If greater efforts were put in at this level at an early stage , through early warning on emerging conflicts , many major wars could be prevented . |
| 4 | The solos still grate , but at least you can get the beers in at this point without fear of missing anything serious — although Hammett has included an axe-trashing coda to his widdly-widdly section ; that 's what you get for hanging out with Nirvana . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | And that was the reason why , and in fact the total shortfall , the total unmanning was something like a hundred and thirty-five hundred and forty , which is why the police authority has a bid in at this moment for a , a further sixty-eight policemen , which has in fact been backed by the county council , who are prepared to pay for it . |
| 7 | But they 're all going to wonder why I dragged you along at this time of night . |
| 8 | It is difficult to get skips in this age group capable of keeping their end up at this level of competition . |
| 9 | While up at this end of the guitar , I must mention the headstock shape . |
| 10 | Another character turns up at this stage in the obese and blustering form of Judge Sir John Popham . |
| 11 | Of course , she was not normally up at this time of the morning . |
| 12 | There are many other more elaborate braids and edgings which are great fun to knit if you keep your machine set up at this time of year , as it is a good time to play with new ideas and perhaps to knit enough to edge that beautiful Chanel-type jacket you are going to knit later , but the simple knitted binding or a simple rouleau takes a lot of beating and always loos fashionable , elegantly simple and stylish . |
| 13 | What on earth are you doing waking the whole world up at this time of night ? |
| 14 | ‘ League points are still important to us and nobody wants to miss out at this stage of the season . ’ |
| 15 | I have written it out at this length for you , the teacher . |
| 16 | An RSPCA official said : ‘ This all seems very pointless because wasps die out at this time of year anyway . ’ |
| 17 | What on earth is that box of biscuits doing out at this time of day ? |
| 18 | ‘ If you think I 'm going to let you turn out at this time of night you 've got another think coming . |
| 19 | I mean , they should n't be out at this time of year cos the you know , the |
| 20 | A complementary body of work was carried out at this time by Flavell and his colleagues ( 1981 ) . |
| 21 | ‘ You 'll meet him coming back at this time of day . ’ |
| 22 | So th let's look then back at this illustration for a moment , this incident , Jesus then gets er a few of his disciples and they go out , in the boat , and there are others who follow him , they get into their boats quite likely , quite possibly that many of the others would have been followers of Jesus , some of his other disciples , it 's unlikely in these very small little er lakeside fishing boats that many of disciples would have got in , there might have been four or five of them that would have been about the lot and so the others would have got into some of the other boats which were nearby and , and others are the people that had been listening to Jesus , they too get into boats , and they pull out following him , wanting to hear if he 's got anything more to say , wanting to witness anything else that he 's gon na do , they wan na be there to see and to hear what Jesus has to say and is going to do . |
| 23 | Nearly all the vessels around at this time of year are private yachts and fishermen . |
| 24 | It does seem that there are a lot of wasps around this September ; there are always wasps around at this time of year , but er are , do you have any evidence that er there 's even more than usual ? |
| 25 | Tess seemed like a queen to Clare , perhaps because he knew that she was the most beautiful woman walking about at this time of day . |
| 26 | What has brought this about at this point in the race is not the result of his lack of effort , but the computer which is the left-hand side of the brain , projecting against the inner screen of his mind , all his failures in past events . |
| 27 | I do n't know why he makes you do that I mean it 's if that was something the I mean all Tony used to ever say when we were at traffic lights were if you want to you can put the handbrake on at this set of traffic lights if they were downhill |
| 28 | And I ca n't think that you 'd come round at this time of day just for a chat . " |