Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [pn reflx] at [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At the age of 30 , I suddenly found myself at a turning point in my life . |
| 2 | I was just to present myself at the right time on the due date , when he would honour his promise to see me . |
| 3 | IBM also finds itself at the wrong end of several historical trends . |
| 4 | Apart from our regular rehearsals we often found ourselves at a loose end and would all troop round together . |
| 5 | At its most typical , this new form of innovation is at least primarily a marketing function , and this contrasts sharply with other kinds of innovation , which , governed by internal cultural purposes , often find themselves at the very margin of the market or indeed outside it altogether . |
| 6 | Juliet even surprised herself at the bitter words spilling over . |
| 7 | The second job of the day is to light the stove , a monument in itself , taking up a quarter of the thatched hut with its various extensions — a sill ( pod ) with an area for keeping dishes warm ( chestok ) , niches ( pechurki ) for small objects and matches , holes on the side for drying out leg and foot wrappings ( for lack of shoes ) , holes near the summit for reviving chilled hens in winter , and on the triumphal summit worn clothing on which to stretch out and sleep in the delicious warmth — ‘ U hholodnoi pechi ne sogreesh'sia ’ ( ‘ You ca n't heat yourself at a cold stove ’ ) . |
| 8 | In the final stages of the peace-making at Utrecht in 1713 the representatives of the different powers avoided many of the difficulties and delays which had marked earlier such conferences by entering the meeting-place in the town hall pêle-mêle ( i.e. in no particular order ) and then seating themselves at a round table which had no head . |
| 9 | A star can therefore maintain itself at a constant radius by a balance between the attraction of gravity and the repulsion that arises from the exclusion principle , just as earlier in its life gravity was balanced by the heat . |