Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [conj] at [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And I would like to buy two chairs for the favour room , you know chairs to sit on cos at the moment we have to always go and get them from the er cracker room . |
| 2 | The 27 finalists are listed below and at the time of going to press they are poised for the grand final in London . |
| 3 | I settled in pretty quickly , though suffering a bit from culture shock and more from the realisation that I was semi-illiterate in the Thai language : I had the ability to communicate verbally but at a child 's level and almost no ability to read . |
| 4 | Government regional and labour mobility policies have also proved their economic worth even though they have not been pursued vigorously and at the most appropriate periods . |
| 5 | Paragraph 21 exposes a gap , pointing out that an innocent acquisition followed by a dishonest decision to keep or dispose of the property was in general not larceny and that larceny by finding was committed only where at the time of the finding the finder believed that the owner could be discovered by taking reasonable steps . |
| 6 | A leaking gutter , for instance , can be repaired quickly and at a small cost , but if the leak remains unnoticed , water could seriously damage the fabric , resulting in expensive repairs for the future . ’ |
| 7 | Within another two minutes Simmons was two-thirds towards completing his hat trick after he outpaced all six defenders and side-footed the ball past goalkeeper Slack , who had been caught unawares as at the time he was trying to impress a group of young girls in the crowd by swinging on the crossbar . |
| 8 | He was detained on Saturday , 30th December , the same day that Mattiya and Otini Kambona were picked up and at the same time as the closure of Ulimwengu was announced . |
| 9 | The safety-belt held me back as I jerked forward and at the same second heard the ghastly clash of metal hitting metal . |
| 10 | He says we 've had alot of people round looking at the garden and alot of the Chelsea pensioners have been looking in and at the sign above the door and saying ’ Ah yes , I think I know that person ! . ’ |
| 11 | Every day bank deposits are withdrawn and fresh deposits made so that at the end of each day liquidity for each bank will be different from that at the beginning . |
| 12 | Referring to study done outside normal college , polytechnic , university , etc , term-time or work done elsewhere than at the college itself as in extramural activities . |
| 13 | Nevertheless , quite apart from their value as a temporary measure to kick-start a move to overcome corporate cultural stereotypes , it was argued convincingly that at an operational level they worked as a performance standard on managers , making them work harder to find , encourage and develop female high-fliers . |
| 14 | Sales service teams in the UK and Ireland ensure that our on-trade draught equipment is operating efficiently and at the correct temperature so that the products can be served in the very best condition . |
| 15 | ( 5 ) A licence granted otherwise than at a properly constituted meeting of a licensing board or otherwise than in accordance with the provisions of this Act shall be void . |
| 16 | The deputy judge refused probate of the 1982 document on the grounds that it had not been duly executed in that , although the amendment by section 17 of the Administration of Justice Act 1982 of section 9 of the Wills Act 1837 allowed a valid signature to be made otherwise than at the foot of the will , it had not altered the requirement that the testator should have made his will before signing it ; and that , in any event , the testator had lacked testamentary capacity . |
| 17 | Mr Thomas was from Hastings where he practised privately and at the Royal East Sussex Hospital as a heart surgeon . |
| 18 | The extracts from a dirty movie fade away and the Inspirals clamber into their Scandia van , delighted with the comments of a Finnish woman journalist who had told them , ‘ You make music that is going somewhere while at the same time standing still and one day it will end in a big BOOM ! ’ |
| 19 | As with an unsigned contractual document , this method of incorporation will work only if at the time of making the contract the buyer actually knew of the existence of the terms or else reasonable steps had been taken to bring them to his attention . |
| 20 | It is dorsal in position , lying above and at the side of the fore intestine and its structure is described in a wide variety of types by Cazal ( 1948 ) , two common arrangements being shown in Fig. 63 . |
| 21 | Arrest elsewhere than at a police station |
| 22 | Fall down and go right on the dodgems , go up and right through the wall , go down and collect the scroll , go up and push the crate right off the platform , fall down and push the crate left off the platform , fall down and push the crate right off the platform , push it left off the next platform , then right and left twice , jump on the big wheel on your right , jump off and at the bottom of the screen go right , collect the arrow , go left and up , go right and climb up on the platforms , go left and collect the star , fly right , up and right , push the crate right off the platform , push it left onto the button , go left , down and collect the star . |
| 23 | Mr Keith claimed yesterday that at a weekend presentation before Ian Lang on local government reform , the Association of District Councils sought to sway the argument in favour of smaller authorities . |
| 24 | This one proved a disaster doing nothing significant , and the huge spread prevented investors from selling out except at a substantial loss . |
| 25 | A draft report from the House of Representatives charged that the EPA ‘ acted improperly or at a minimum created the appearance of impropriety ’ , in deciding not to regulate formaldehyde as a cancer-causing chemical . |
| 26 | Something inside me stretched as I walked so that at the same time I was walking on the top of those hills . |
| 27 | For seventeen years Father Conlin had been closely involved in the educational provision of the Diocese , a far from easy task but one in which he achieved much and at the same time earned the respect and affection of Clergy , Governors and Teachers . |
| 28 | These purchase notice provisions are restricted to owner occupiers of houses and small businesses who can show that they have made reasonable attempts to sell their property but have found it impossible to do so except at a substantially depreciated price because of certain defined planning actions . |
| 29 | I heard myself say to him , though the different sections of my brain seemed to have slipped out of synch somehow , and I was aware of all sorts of different things at once , and time seemed to have slowed down and at the same time some part of my brain was racing , trying to come up with some logical explanation for what was going on that did n't involve calamity … and failing . |
| 30 | Growth in export markets has slowed down and at the same time new malting capacity has come on stream leading to a very competitive market place . |