Example sentences of "[that] [modal v] [verb] [adv prt] at " in BNC.
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| 1 | But things have come to a pretty pass when obesity is confused with the wobbly bits the good Lord designed for girls — the bits that should stick out at the front and back of a strapless ballgown . |
| 2 | Alone with Guido in the little boat , she 'd felt a constant sense of danger , like sitting on a time bomb that might go off at any second . |
| 3 | They would be able to gallop hard away from anything that might spring out at them . |
| 4 | Some years later , to give one final example of the kind of trouble that could break out at football games , the police found it necessary to lead a baton charge against stone-throwers during a contest between Linfield and Belfast Celtic in 1935 . |
| 5 | The White House wants to see stations that could come in at either $5 billion , $7 billion or $9 billion over the next five years . |
| 6 | We used to have to use a generator for our electricity and that used to go off at ten o'clock at night so if there was an operation that needed doing , there were two car batteries that were turned on and you used to have to do it by those . |
| 7 | The EC has also put forward an advisory , non-binding , maximum figure that would work out at about 87.5p a gallon at current rates . |
| 8 | Some lifts have rails that can fold up at the bottom if space is tight or if a doorway is going to obstructed . |