Example sentences of "[conj] [vb base] [pron] at [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 ? |
| 2 | us fifty winters more or drop us at this one now |
| 3 | ( It is interesting to note that the right to benefit for 16 and 17 year olds has been denied and these young people either accept some form of youth training or get nothing at all . ) |
| 4 | Anyone who can rekindle a friendship should write to him at Flat 11 , Grove Court , Cooden Drive , Bexhill , Sussex or ring him at 0424–212456 . |
| 5 | She knew him to be Alexander Rokovssky , the dark tool of autocratic monarchs and a fanatical servant of Tsarism , a man who could slit another 's throat or shoot him at point-blank range without any change of expression . |
| 6 | But as the new realists and the Christian revivalists equally understood , mankind needs its shared experience of reality ; and conversation apart , it is doubtful if anything but fiction can do it as well , or do it at all . |
| 7 | Er Trading Standards Officers have been helping the police have made a large number of visits to sales in recent months targetting those where we know or suspect there will be concentration of counterfeiter goods and these stolen items we 've been taking and seizing items , we 've been making inspections and er we will also be distributing some leaflets to try and advise people of some of the risks and dangers that face them at this sort of event . |
| 8 | Males have brightly striped fringes and flash them at each other when displaying during combat . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Hands in his clay-coloured raincoat , Gaily , myopic , bent down and read one at random , wonderingly . |
| 13 | Giotto will fly to Halley 's comet in 1986 , and photograph it at close quarters . |
| 14 | He was concerned that preachers of the Word should also take it into homes and minister it at closer quarters . |
| 15 | You can purchase your first FREEDOM TICKET and renew it at any Post Office in Oxford or at The Broadway , Banbury Road or Mill Street offices in Kidlington itself . |
| 16 | ( iv ) If cells of known age are required , culture the isolated cells and examine them at hourly or half hourly intervals for division . |
| 17 | ‘ Many spend two years in the sixth form and get nothing at all , and it is hard for people who get a low grade at A-level to realise they have actually done very well . ’ |
| 18 | Some deaths , injuries and serious damage have been caused by young people who take other people 's cars and drive them at high speed . |
| 19 | And even if you 're parking it in your driveway or close to your home , lock and secure it at all times . |
| 20 | It is possible to make a break-through and find what at first appeared to be a problem turns into a sensible and satisfactory arrangement . |
| 21 | Perhaps sit and do nothing at all — or perhaps be revolting ? |
| 22 | Policies such as these penalise those who drink sensibly , are detrimental to the drinks industry and do nothing at all to deter those who are determined to abuse alcohol . |
| 23 | But one can not just say that the tau neutrino is heavy and leave it at that . |
| 24 | ‘ Is n't it enough to look at the work I 've produced and leave it at that ? ’ |
| 25 | Some guy might walk past and say , ‘ Hey , you look nice today ’ , and leave it at that . |
| 26 | If you are not sure of the answers , say so , and leave it at that . |
| 27 | Some find it simpler to say that Jesus was human and leave it at that . |
| 28 | Unlike Sam , or even me for that matter , he could admire a girl from afar , and leave it at that . |
| 29 | You could take their word for it and leave it at that . |
| 30 | Do n't just look at it and think to yourself ‘ That 's a jug ’ and leave it at that . |