Example sentences of "[coord] [verb] [pron] at [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If a fond mum sends you back after a weekend at home with your favourite fruit cake , do you keep it in a tin under the bed and eat it secretly , or demolish it at one swoop by sharing it with others ? |
| 2 | It can also be used to establish the propensity of different ACORN categories to buy different products or services , or to use them at particular rates ; and to analyse their exposure and reaction to different forms of promotional and advertising media . |
| 3 | She knew him to be Alexander Rokovssky , the dark tool of autocratic monarchs and a fanatical servant of Tsarism , a man who could slit another 's throat or shoot him at point-blank range without any change of expression . |
| 4 | There must be no provision for the entity to keep the asset on repayment of the finance , or to reacquire it at any time . |
| 5 | PostScript sacrificed performance for flexibility and , as a result , is capable of taking the same original information and producing it at any output resolution ; 72 , 300 , 1270 or 2540dpi . |
| 6 | Males have brightly striped fringes and flash them at each other when displaying during combat . |
| 7 | Then take two cuts of the cards off the bottom of the pack and place them at each end before placing the rest in the middle . |
| 8 | But if you are still in the UK for the four days from July 15–18 , put a note in your dairy to come and see us at this year 's Art in Action at Waterperry House , Wheatley in Oxfordshire . |
| 9 | Giotto will fly to Halley 's comet in 1986 , and photograph it at close quarters . |
| 10 | He was concerned that preachers of the Word should also take it into homes and minister it at closer quarters . |
| 11 | You can purchase your first FREEDOM TICKET and renew it at any Post Office in Oxford or at The Broadway , Banbury Road or Mill Street offices in Kidlington itself . |
| 12 | The Capitulary of Thionville in 805 , for instance , forbids usury , the kind of usury which involved buying cheap corn in quantity and selling it at excessive profit in times of scarcity . |
| 13 | Sarah would not take a flying run , but with John and Nora running and holding her at each side , just catching the fringes of the grass , she had her stately share , too . |
| 14 | Registry staff must be able to process information without introducing delays , whether it is receiving data from a student and subsequently providing an updated record for that student or taking a request from a lecturer for a list and providing it at short notice or processing an offer made by an admissions tutor so that the candidate hears from PCAS as quickly as possible . |
| 15 | Some deaths , injuries and serious damage have been caused by young people who take other people 's cars and drive them at high speed . |
| 16 | And even if you 're parking it in your driveway or close to your home , lock and secure it at all times . |
| 17 | Ask the Lord to bless and encourage them at this time and that they would not suffer from ill health . |
| 18 | The name of the game is to hit the guy as hard as you can and to protect yourself at all times . |
| 19 | They then began to play a game which involved tearing pieces off the aircraft and hurtling them at each other . |
| 20 | As a critical or psychological judgement it is meaningless , since it is difficult to see how a conductor can reveal private soul-searching whilst recording the overture to Die Fledermaus or Beethoven 's Seventh Symphony , short , that is , of transposing each piece into the minor and playing it at half speed . |
| 21 | Later Lisa was to wonder at the power of the sensations that swept in on her and possessed her at that moment . |
| 22 | He is a keen observer of political life and quizzed me at great length about the impending British general election . |
| 23 | and repaying it at five percent interest or whatever is a rate of |
| 24 | I 'm sure they pick things up and throw them at each other . |
| 25 | You can then pull the headboard out and rest it at any angle on the mattress for reading , watching TV or enjoying breakfast in comfort . |
| 26 | He went up to the Palestinian and shot him at close range , the army said . |
| 27 | He led her inside and left her at one side of the room , walking softly away and stopping to face her at the other side . |
| 28 | Further , a widespread parish response to famine-level prices was to purchase supplies of wheat or substitute foodstuffs and re-sell them at subsidised prices to the poor . |
| 29 | Come and join us at this year 's Art in Action , where you will not only learn from the demonstrations by many of the UK 's leading artists and tutors , but you will also be invited to enjoy hands-on experience of art materials on display and sale by leading manufacturers such as Winsor & Newton , Daler-Rowney , Pro Arte , Liquitex , Schwan Stabilo , Faber-Castell , Berol/Osmiroid , Rexel Cumberland and many others . |
| 30 | In the 1946 cohort the less able ( measured at age 11 ) and women with no qualifications start having babies earlier and are also more likely to go on to have third and higher order births and have them at shorter intervals . |