Example sentences of "[prep] [verb] [pron] [adv] at [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The bell for Compline rang , the time she had set herself for hounding him out at the wicket , into a world he was , perhaps , already beginning to regret surrendering , but which he might have found none too hospitable to a runaway Benedictine novice . |
| 2 | It is clear that the derivation of the high number of word paths from mid-classes and the problem of filtering them out at the lexical access stage means that syntactic/semantic information must be brought to bear as soon as words are accessed . |
| 3 | And and there 's always the chance of getting it back at a later stage er but the whole market will have moved up a level . |
| 4 | The shares will have been borrowed and sold in the hope and expectation of buying them back at a lower price . |
| 5 | As the name suggests , this consists of bouncing the light off reflective surfaces instead of aiming it directly at the subject . |
| 6 | Or else you sort of jotted them down at the back of your mind , you know , to think about them later , but you never remembered , or you did but it was too late , they 'd gone , your head was full of other things . ’ |
| 7 | Quite suddenly he let go and sort of pushed me away at the same time . |
| 8 | One person 's hip replacement operation certainly prevents the busy surgeon from doing something else at the same time . |
| 9 | A miserably dull , windy and cold Saturday morning beckoned for the last of my Island days and Ewen very kindly had given up his spare time to run me around the Stornoway locality before dropping me off at the airport . |
| 10 | ‘ For dropping you in at the deep end , before you 'd had a chance to get your bearings … ’ |
| 11 | In spite of his explanations they 'd insisted on signing him out at the little cabin , and he 'd snatched the case out of his car and run back , wondering why it always rained . |
| 12 | Once it was dry , Louise styled Kukkay 's hair by twisting it up at the back to create fullness on top while still leaving it curly and ‘ free ’ . |
| 13 | Like copepods , these 3–4mm brownish worms thrive in overfed aquaria , and can only be eradicated by syphoning them out at every opportunity , which may take months . |
| 14 | In The Desert Rats as the young English captain who put paid to that upstart Rommel by turning him back at a crucial moment in the whole North African Campaign ( set in Palm Springs ) , he was fine . |
| 15 | ‘ We shall know whether they sink or swim by putting them in at the deep end , and I have every confidence that they will all do well . |