Example sentences of "and [adv] at [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Out of Romania , then right across Hungary into Austria — always down lanes or minor roads and mostly at night … ’ |
| 2 | He was at his best and most at home in the primary sector . |
| 3 | Efficiency about the house on the part of others always inspired wistful envy in Meredith who was efficient about the office and rather at sea about the home . |
| 4 | Transfer the 3rd and every following 5th stitch on to adjacent needles at left and right at centre 0 , that is , with four stitches for cable at centre . |
| 5 | Innovations are , after all , naturally and necessarily at risk , and can claim no exemption from the operation of market forces . |
| 6 | Their evil habits are illustrated in the following tale : a traveller , lost and alone at night on a craggy moor , was invited by a duergar to sit by his fire and warm himself . |
| 7 | The rest bobbed up and down at chin height , or remained by the bathing-machine steps . |
| 8 | That , in some cases , that has been explored for the storage of heat in the summer which you would then use in the winter , but everywhere one comes back to storage nuclear power stations can not be turned up and down quickly at the moment , so either with electricity you have to have a uniform demand for electricity , or you have to , say , burn gas to provide an alternative way of generating electricity which can be turned up and down at will . |
| 9 | The whole hotel of which this was the Sanctum sanctorum gave an impression of earlier magnificence now a little dusty and down at heel . |
| 10 | ‘ She 'll be scrawny and down at heel , I bet . |
| 11 | There was an oily cap on the top shelf of the wardrobe and a pair of much worn and down at heel working boots under the bed . |
| 12 | And apparently at speech day she was talking to s do you know she had the cheek to say to me she had the cheek to tell somebody to say that I should at least have the decency to go out with someone who 's half looking , half good looking . |
| 13 | At other times , and especially at night , he seemed disturbingly different . |
| 14 | ‘ I 'm so sorry , ’ said a high tenor voice , soft and mild in surprise , and apologising even for the surprise , ‘ but we do n't normally use this door , and especially at night . |
| 15 | Position on main rather than on secondary rail routes and especially at crossroads in the network ( nodal points ) was an important factor for growth . |
| 16 | In the very first hour one of Dorothea Gilberd 's little boys had told her , and naturally at lunch break in the Staff Common Room she told everybody else . |
| 17 | Gooch , and together at second , spinning it , it 's sort of back spin version frisbee , er puts it on his head , he 'll be happy with the way the morning 's gone hmm . |
| 18 | Do you know why we can see them at night and not at day time . |
| 19 | Even Illich 's onslaught is directed at formal schooling and not at education as such . |
| 20 | If frequency is present , it occurs usually only during the day and not at night . |
| 21 | Yes children should be at school and not at work but how can we ignore all those millions of others now growing up without this opportunity . |
| 22 | I did n't want to get into soap opera conversation about it with him , but on the occasions that we did talk about it , both of us felt that someone , with perhaps a little more eye on reality , would have realised that he should have been in hospital and not at home unable to reach oxygen . |
| 23 | Pizan writes : ‘ When he was occupied by some task and not at leisure to present his lectures to his students , he would send Novella , his daughter , in his place to lecture to the students from his chair . ’ |
| 24 | Discipline means having an agenda , starting and finishing the meeting when you said you would , answering the client 's questions with authority ( and if you can not give an answer , say you do not know but you will find out ) ; having your paperwork neat and easily at hand ; offering the best hospitality you can provide , such as telephones , a cup of coffee , a comfortable chair and a pad and pencil in case he did n't bring his own . |
| 25 | Tony Yates applied to the licensing committee to extend his music licence until 12.30am at Brannegans and 2.30am at Club Lucy . |
| 26 | United will be at home in the first leg on September the twenty second and away at Villa Park two weeks later . |
| 27 | … bloody man is in the fast-lane ; comes off at junction 7 for a year or so here , and then he 'll be off and away at junction 8 , on to his chief 's job somewhere else … and look at him ! |
| 28 | I am restored and utterly at peace . |
| 29 | No attempt was made , therefore , to calculate the delivery times of individual items from the Annexe , since it is known that delivery times range from an minimum of just over three-quarters of an hour , for requests submitted immediately before the majority of the van 's departures from the Main Building , to a maximum of around sixty-six hours , for requests submitted immediately after the van 's final departure on Fridays ( and longer at holiday periods ) . |
| 30 | They were taken aback to find her smiling and totally at ease . |