Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] at [art] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The next tunnel forked , turned left , turned right again , and other tunnels led off from it ; and Fand led them at an even pace along a course that seemed to have no sense . |
| 2 | You 've caught me at a very late lunch . |
| 3 | For managers , the issue manifests itself at a more procedural level , and is now revolving around resource management . |
| 4 | This high degree of concentration also manifests itself at the most localized scales . |
| 5 | One morning I arrived to find him at the supremely mundane task of " plugging muck " , standing on a manure heap , hurling steaming forkfuls on to a cart . |
| 6 | I desired with almost sickening intensity something never to be described ( except that it is cold , spacious , severe , pale and remote ) and then , as in the other examples , found myself at the very same moment already falling out of that desire and wishing I were back in it . |
| 7 | Now she was waiting for the food to reach her at the rapidly expanding camp . |
| 8 | Here the general principle is that those who receive the largest amount of money overall receive it at the least frequent intervals and rank highest in the hierarchy of power . |
| 9 | Twenty minutes later he had reached paragraph 9 when a voice from the next room told him that if he were typing anything other than his bloody resignation he should bloody well do it at a more civilised bloody hour . |
| 10 | We shall consider Bukharin 's propositions in the light of the above considerations , and examine them at the most abstract level possible . |
| 11 | ‘ I knew there would be trouble at that roundabout — the road approaches it at a very acute angle . |
| 12 | This task is made all the more necessary by the fact that opponents of absolute holism often find it strongly counter-intuitive , not to say absurd ; although they can grasp it at a very general level , they have difficulty in imagining either how it could be developed , or what would make it plausible . |
| 13 | However clear and well presented reading material may be , there can still be problems in its use , particularly for pupils who need to use it at a very close distance from the eye . |
| 14 | Not if he arranged it at the most awkward time of the year ? a little voice rejoined . |
| 15 | mm yes get us at a much more er er effective role in reducing tariffs on manufactured goods than it has on agricultural goods and it 's only in this last round of G A T T talks , the Uruguay round that agriculture has been brought into the frame alright . |
| 16 | She 'd phone them at the very first opportunity , knowing how they would have worried . |
| 17 | Given that the member will be sent their membership card , it would seem a small step away to actually send them a letter addressed to them personally welcoming them to the union and advise them at the very least on the basic facilities and benefits , plus other important information , and signed by the Regional Secretary , if not by the General Secretary . |
| 18 | ‘ From there , ferry and all , to the place where he was ambushed , would take him at the most half an hour . |
| 19 | Although he had won the Derby , plenty of people were still convinced that he did not truly stay a mile and a half and that Piggott 's sensitive handling of him at Epsom , producing him at the very last moment , had masked this lack of stamina . |
| 20 | But she did not like to admit the accidental , for if her birth was the effect of chance , so then was her escape ; the same arbitrary law that had produced her might well have blinded her at the most crucial moments of her life , and left her forever desiring , forever missing , never achieving , an eternal misfit . |
| 21 | And for cooking the tastiest casseroles , there 's a special ‘ Slow-set ’ facility which lets you leave the food to cook itself at a very low temperature over a long period . |
| 22 | And it 's so odd , it 's hard now when somebody says , ‘ What was it like ? ’ or says , ‘ What did she use to wear ? ’ because of course we all saw her all the time and thought nothing of it , saw her at the very least once a week ( missing service , it was called , if you went a week without visiting , and it was certain to be discussed amongst the congregation when you did finally show up ) , it 's just very odd for me to think that you were never there and that this is all strange to you when to us it was just an ordinary life . |
| 23 | A er twenty five watt lamp in the fridge is using it at a very low rate , it 's hardly using any electricity . |
| 24 | Hardest hit are those on lowest incomes , as employers are allowed to pay them at a specially designed low rate . |
| 25 | His alternative was to increase the army 's number of permanent divisions from thirty-one to forty-seven , to maintain them at a relatively low level in peacetime , but to triple them in size on the outbreak of war . |
| 26 | So tres modere is and as the explanation gives you at a very moderate speed . |
| 27 | Do not fix anything so low over a sofa that people can knock their heads on it when getting up or even leaning back ; all the same , try to place everything at a reasonably flexible eye level . |
| 28 | Ruth now put him at no more than five-and-twenty . |
| 29 | Lest we seem obsessed with sex , we should point out that only 18% of our respondents ranked it ‘ very ’ important in their lives — with the largest group ( 47% ) putting it at a more discreet ‘ quite ’ important . |
| 30 | His brief was simple : charter a large cargo plane and bring back to Farnborough all the pieces of wreckage that will , in your judgement , need to be examined in detail in connection with this investigation , and do it at the least possible cost to the taxpayer . |