Example sentences of "[indef pn] [modal v] [verb] at a " in BNC.

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1 On the first floor one might sit at a table overlooking the Bay while enjoying a Swanage lobster salad or a delicious cream tea .
2 In cross-section ( Fig. 3 ) , the wound front generally has a rounded or only slightly angular profile , rather than the flattened cellular protrusions one might expect at a leading edge that was actively crawling forwards over the exposed mesenchyme .
3 The chief argument for putting the Callovian in the Upper Jurassic was that this stage was markedly transgressive Over a large part of the Soviet Union and that , therefore , this was a natural break such as one might expect at a major stratigraphical boundary .
4 She glanced briefly at Twoflower , as one might look at a piece of furniture , then glared down at the man on the bed .
5 Reviewing a biography by Phyllis Willmott of social work administrator Geraldine Aves , he threw out an impressively succinct characterisation of the Seebohm Report , which , as one might say at a BASW workshop , I want to share with you .
6 This did not surprise me , since one could see at a glance that Herr Bremann was a gentleman of great decency .
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