Example sentences of "[vb base] [pron] at [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We were at great pains to explain that we were novices and aware that diving in Barbados was unlike diving in the UK and were told that ‘ courses taken on holiday mean nothing at all ’ and that we should be prepared to snorkel around a pool for six months should he deem it necessary , and that even if we did dive to any standard we would be taken on a dive ( presumably in a pool ) , and ‘ ripped down ’ until we eventually failed a test . |
| 2 | Males have brightly striped fringes and flash them at each other when displaying during combat . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Nobody want them at twenty pound ? |
| 5 | Twenty pounds no one want them at twenty twenty pounds twenty pounds , all done then at twenty pounds only ? |
| 6 | Inevitably , I noted these criticisms were rarely in relation to what he had said ( few had actually read the book ) , but rather were expressions of shocked outrage that he had failed to keep silent and say nothing at all . |
| 7 | And to the normal layman that sounds better than not say nothing at all . |
| 8 | I believe I say nothing at all . |
| 9 | You want nothing at all ? |
| 10 | Does the idea of joining the Stamp Bug Club , interest you a lot , interest you a little or not really interest you at all ? |
| 11 | ‘ I expect you at ten . |
| 12 | But as you say you at that point you do have to stop . |
| 13 | Franks flashed him a look of irritation , as if it was disloyal of the picture editor to criticise Nicola now that she was dead , indeed criticise her at all . |
| 14 | Say it at same price again , yeah . |
| 15 | Lot a hundred and eleven eighty eight note player piano , there it is , thank you twenty for it , twenty pounds twenty twenty twenty pounds twenty pounds , no one want it at twenty pounds twenty pounds is bid , thank you , twenty two twenty two now , any more ? |
| 16 | You will have realized , for example , that if you crunch your car into your neighbour 's gatepost at 20 miles an hour you will do much more damage than if you nudge it at 10 . |
| 17 | Now let us explore what lies behind the contemporary appearance of quite another group of towns : towns which reveal nothing at first sight of their secret , physical history , and which indeed seem to have little or nothing in common as one looks at them and around their streets . |
| 18 | Not so High Rocks , whose owners have steadily raised their admission charges in the last few years , threatened climbers with access restrictions , and put nothing at all back into the maintenance of the rocks , save to enclose them in a sturdy , reinforced fence . |
| 19 | In front of the railway station , a second police car ( summoned by a confident Morse as Lewis had driven him from North Oxford ) was now waiting , and the Chief Inspector nodded a perfunctory greeting to the two detective-constables who sat side by side in the front seats as they watched , and awaited , developments ; watched the three men walk over to the twenty-minute waiting-area set aside for those meeting passengers from British Rail journeys — an area where parking cost nothing at all ; watched them as they passed through that area and walked into the main car-park , with the bold notice affording innocent trespassers the clearest warning : |
| 20 | As for his invitation — if I catch you at 1997 with him or any other man , I 'll revoke my decision about the wedding night , and take you to bed immediately ! ’ |
| 21 | Estimates put it at 40,000 million gallons of flood water . |
| 22 | It does n't sound quite so good when you put it at that sort of level , cause it puts a school at risk , but of course there 's no reason why a county council should n't borrow considerably more than this council does , looked at on accounting principle , unless I 'm wrong , and Mr I 'm going to call in a minute , will correct me if I am . |
| 23 | Some 64pc of those entitled to Family Credit receive it at any one time . |
| 24 | But it might not be a bad idea to go down that route to see if we can we can see if it can be exploit it at this stage because we have discussed , and I know this is getting off the the the the agen |
| 25 | Children play mournfully in heap of setter shit above which washing-line used to hang ( until sodden towel bust it at three a.m. , landing in setter ordure as mentioned ) . |
| 26 | We have hold it at head office every week . |
| 27 | 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 ? |
| 28 | Kill yourself at five miles an hour in a car I know sounds stupid ! |
| 29 | For every Western aid worker , there are at least five Somali aid workers who , like Hawa the nurse , put themselves at greater risk , work longer hours for little or no money , and provide a body of local people who may be able to continue their work in health care or administration after the fighting is over . |
| 30 | I also know of several productive bream waters where the bream never show themselves at all until they are being brought to the landing net . |