Example sentences of "[adv] [to-vb] [pron] at " in BNC.
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| 1 | If you 're lucky enough to see one at all it will slither off to find a more peaceful rock to sleep under , and since as yet they have n't organised themselves into packs , roaming around looking for people to bite , we can safely say that there 's nothing you will encounter that threatens humans in any way . |
| 2 | ‘ The money we 'll get for the house , if we 're lucky enough to sell it at a good price , will just about pay the bills . ’ |
| 3 | Callinicos , defence of Marxism is erudite and compelling , and the fact that he runs out of steam over post-war art is of less moment than the fact that he takes the range of issues seriously enough to discuss them at all . |
| 4 | The problem that exists is that factions of governors who are members of the European Central Bank and who disagree with its policies may join together to frustrate them at the national level . |
| 5 | Physiologists were then increasingly agreeing that every cellular organism is either a single cell or a cell colony arising from the successive divisions of a single cell , and that two cells come together to form one at fertilization , each having arisen by the division of one cell in the respective parent body . |
| 6 | But chimpanzees do not breed well in captivity , partly because of a long pregnancy and childhood , and trapping them in the wild is expensive and wasteful enough to put them at risk of extinction . |
| 7 | Not bad enough , he judged , for him to stay in bed but bad enough to keep him at home . |
| 8 | Surely the manager could have massaged his ego enough to keep him at the club . |
| 9 | These are waters which do not , as a rule , produce big bream , for with so many mouths to share the available food there is only enough to maintain them at a low body weight . |
| 10 | It was , said one speaker forgivingly , ‘ better to have him at Lloyds seeking to insure his own cargoes , than at sea seeking cargoes insured by others ’ . |
| 11 | She had a terrible urge just to chuck it at Evelyn 's feet and run away , but she knew if she did that there was a chance she might burst into tears . |
| 12 | If they get in if they start getting in the way the best thing to do is just let them relax to the side and try and forget about them , I know it 's difficult to forget about them but just to the conscious effort with the hands is just to put them at the side . |
| 13 | I did a touch of Makarova in Romeo and Juliet at that , just to put everyone at his ease . |
| 14 | Positivist criminology , on the other hand , seemed scarcely to recognise it at all . |
| 15 | ‘ It is number 52 , is n't it ? ’ she asked , just to keep him at the end of the line . |
| 16 | The simple way there as you 've probably been told by your tax officer here is just to reclaim it at the end of the tax year . |
| 17 | William Whitelaw believes , however , that there were no abstainers : the six who did not vote were either too far away to present themselves at Westminster , or they were ill . |
| 18 | I was just to present myself at the right time on the due date , when he would honour his promise to see me . |
| 19 | There is plenty of opportunity for the general sense of ambiguity discussed above to manifest itself at the level of individual projects . |
| 20 | More to put her at her ease again than for any other reason I picked up The Times and showed it to her . |
| 21 | perhaps like to mention it at the end of the session and I can arrange to get one of those sent to you . |
| 22 | Because Kate , for all her faults real and imagined , was the only person ever to take him at face value . |
| 23 | Newton , who celebrated by clubbing in London 's West End , has played in every position for Chelsea — including goalkeeper for part of a reserve game — and Porterfield must be tempted now to leave him at the front for the next test against Middlesbrough . |
| 24 | it seems like now to tell you at last I 've come to terms with it now , I 've really |
| 25 | The existence of the requirement of standing indicates that the law 's primary concern is not , as such , to control government activity but rather to control it at the suit of persons affected by it in a particular way . |
| 26 | Presumably you have to feel that strongly to do anything at all . |
| 27 | You 've no room here to keep anything at all . ’ |
| 28 | He will be doing well to get anything at all . |
| 29 | ‘ I persuaded her once or twice to meet me at the ruined tower . |
| 30 | IF Stakis shareholders had come to bury Caesar last year then they were there to praise him at yesterday 's annual general meeting in the Normandy Hotel in Renfrew . |