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

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1 Do you let them try them on at all ?
2 course now they 're putting them on at half past four you , your body clock 's well out .
3 Erm , there 's no reason why you ca n't put them in at that price I mean they 're
4 Fetch them in at half past three .
5 The amazing ‘ Street of Much Music ’ , with it 's abundance of colourful bars and restaurants is only 10–15 metres away , as is the beach where you can take advantage of your free beach mat and cultivate those tans ready to show them off at some of Kos town 's brilliant night-clubs , also 15 minutes away .
6 They work under the grim threat that armed and dangerous rebels could pick them off at any time .
7 Erm there have been attempts to brighten them up at various times .
8 and erm , they were absolutely chocker , they were really full and he said erm , I sa , he said he had n't had to fill them up at all in all the time that it 's been running , and no , I asked him if he had any enquiries and nobody stopped him and asked anything about it , and then he turned to the other lad who was beside him the sales assistant and he said no I 've had no enquiries at all , so that was it .
9 On the day before — Friday — Nutty ordered them all to go to bed early , and meet at the refrigerator factory where Mr Singh would pick them up at 8.15 after they had got the horses ready .
10 When they were at the nursery I could take them at 7 a.m. and pick them up at 6 p.m .
11 ‘ She was picking them up at random and saying things like , ‘ This boy 's in a wheelchair but that does n't stop him giving me the eye , ’ or , ‘ This is the college stud but he cuts no ice with me . ’ ’
12 To borrow an analogy from an eminent astronomer , if you take the parts of an airliner and jumble them up at random , the likelihood that you would happen to assemble a working Boeing is vanishingly small .
13 To generate a biological molecule like haemoglobin , the red pigment in blood , by simple sieving would be equivalent to taking all the amino-acid building blocks of haemoglobin , jumbling them up at random , and hoping that the haemoglobin molecule would reconstitute itself by sheer luck .
14 ‘ A number of invitations have been outstanding for some time , and people just chose to take them up at this stage , ’ one said .
15 And they did n't really want them back at that time .
16 Therefore the problem for us is not necessarily to get clients to install a new identity , but rather to find out which ‘ corporate communications ’ are unintelligible , and then to ask — in today 's cost-conscious times — whether it is worth putting them out at all .
17 No I 'm not on about that I 'm on about lea chucking them out at one o'clock .
18 Sadly , the sort of quality that can be achieved from such bit mapped graphics is rather less than the advertisements might lead you to believe , especially when it comes to enlarging or reducing them and printing them out at high resolution .
19 I 'll have a cigarette for later if you do n't , if your handing them out at this point
20 This means that if you start with a random collection of objects above the hole , and some force shakes and jostles them about at random , after a while the objects above and below the hole will come to be nonrandomly sorted .
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