Example sentences of "[adv] at hand [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mesnel , known for his Anglophobic outbursts , was always at hand with a vitriolic comment about the ‘ perfidious Albion ’ and what he called ‘ the legendary hypocrisy of the English ’ . |
| 2 | Most schools , I am glad to say , have aquariums and goldfish , water snails , weeds , stones , shells are to be observed carefully and often and the children can then create a picture from a real experience , not necessarily from direct observation , but with the experience near at hand for reference when needed . |
| 3 | The little manor-house at Cadhay stands near at hand in the Ottery meadows , and more distant views reach as far as the great hill-fort at Hembury , built on a commanding spur of land in the late Iron Age . |
| 4 | There 's a light switch near at hand inside that tank and , as you are wearing ear plugs , you find yourself floating in a soundless , dark and warm environment . |
| 5 | Help is also at hand for new Wordperfect users with Microref Quick Help . |
| 6 | With these ships the merchants of La Rochelle could compete in the markets of England and Flanders with wines produced nearer at hand in the Paris Basin and the Rhineland . |
| 7 | You can see desolation but you are not part of it : the desolation being the rock and ice of the Pic de Néouvielle immediately at hand to the west . |
| 8 | Somewhere high up in the cloudless sky , hidden by the leafy canopy , an aeroplane droned lazily , the sound mirrored closer at hand by the drowsy noise of insects . |