Example sentences of "something at the " in BNC.
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| 1 | That was something at the time that I felt I did n't really need myself . |
| 2 | I 'm going to get something at the pub on my way home . |
| 3 | As the New Right has denounced and undermined a communitarian form of society , so ‘ The numbers of people for whom such communitarian visions are good and mean something at the level of their everyday experiences are declining , attenuating their moral force . ’ |
| 4 | It was like that game where you were blindfolded and spun round , and then you had to try and touch someone , Creed and the Skull , they were close one moment , then they were dancing out of reach , and nothing would sound like anything when he played it back , it would sound like interference , nonsense , silence , but he stayed with it , trips to the bathroom to sluice his nose and throat , more trips to replace the tapes , because he sensed they were leading up to something , there was something at the end of this rainbow of places , not gold but something . |
| 5 | Switch on and check that you have 28V to 30V at the rectifier output , about 9V across capacitor C8 and something at the output terminals . |
| 6 | He came in too fast and had to swing to avoid something at the end of his run — the undercarriage collapsed . |
| 7 | You carry a notebook , like a journalist in a film , and scribble down street conversation — much of it ‘ How are you Mrs Jones ? ’ inanities — in the hope that there will be something at the end of the day to turn into copy . |
| 8 | Something at the core of him gave in to her . |
| 9 | Topknot spread his arms above him and muttered something at the sky . |
| 10 | Something at the back of his mind was pushing its way to the front and giving him a curious grey feeling . |
| 11 | ‘ Well , maybe there 's something at the back of a cupboard somewhere , ’ he said . |
| 12 | Saskia had thrown something at the third and hit it on the head . |
| 13 | He knew , because in a town the size of Plumford everybody knew these things , that Hubert Molland had been given a combined parish a few miles outside Plumford , and that the Mollands were now living in Champney Crucis ; he knew that Kate had left school and was now doing something at the technical college ; and , more importantly , he had heard from Joe that she was going out with the local MP 's youngest son , whose name was Julian and who drove a Triumph Spitfire . |
| 14 | A Gothic mahogany bookcase ( lot 478 , est. $6,000–9,000 ) was a beautiful piece of transitional classical/Gothic Revival furniture , though it was obviously missing something at the top , either an additional moulding or added tracery . |
| 15 | His eyes were fixed on someone or something at the room 's edge and Lucille , turning to see what had caught his astonished attention , saw the golden girl returning d'Alembord 's gaze with what seemed to be pure poison . |
| 16 | I first started to think about painting about ten years ago when my two children married and left home and I thought I 'd ‘ do ’ something at the local adult education centre . |
| 17 | So provided you get something at the right level of sophistication , you should n't go far wrong with any of the mainstream graphics software currently available . |
| 18 | An odd posture , bent over — it was the girl of this afternoon , and she was going to throw something at the windows of the sitting-room . |
| 19 | Similarly , as the hand wanders in a doodle , the mind is free to concentrate on something at the back of it : in this case , the ideas just put before the children . |
| 20 | But someone was saying something at the same time as Lord Boddy , making him falter and finally stop in midstride . |
| 21 | He waved and shouted something at the mercer in the street below , then scrambled back onto the ladder again and started to descend . |
| 22 | Last Sunday you may remember I held up something at the start of the service , and it was my mail from the previous day and we homed in on one buff letter which had H M inspector of taxes in it . |
| 23 | You know there 's something at the back of my mind about that Datsun and I ca n't think what it is . ’ |
| 24 | He signalled to the waitress , then said : ‘ If you change your mind we might be able to get something at the airport . ’ |
| 25 | He was becoming increasingly conscious of the existence of something at the core — in fact , a suspicion , a threat , which must at all costs be shielded from his probes . |
| 26 | And of course the , with the boxes being all round the side , the dressing boxes , this was outmoded , we needed a building at the side , which there was sufficient room to build something at the side because we had a park at the side of it then . |
| 27 | Morley 's missive concerns clearly the sale of ore from the Fleming Manor , though the sentence " … we shall doo something at the Mynes. " |
| 28 | The old man nodded briefly , chewing on something at the side of his mouth . |
| 29 | Remember to put something at the bottom of the downpipe if it discharges over an open gully in order to catch whatever is blocking it , or else you might block the gully or the drains further along . |
| 30 | I 'm a manufacturer , I like to make things , I like to hold something at the end of day and say that 's something that 's been created . |