Example sentences of "[prep] be at the mercy " in BNC.

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1 Most action was bound to be like this — a span , long or short , in which one did nothing — could do nothing except be at the mercy of one 's nerves — and then the moment , the test …
2 The women 's race looks set for the second successive year to be at the mercy of Rosa Mota , a winner at Olympic and world level as well as the three times European champion .
3 The Genoese city of Famagusta did not intend to be at the mercy of Mamelukes .
4 He was to be at the mercy of both and early on he knew it .
5 The range of oriental rugs on offer in a dealer 's showroom or department store is overwhelming , and you may feel yourself to be at the mercy of the salesman .
6 He seemed to me to be at the mercy of waves that tossed him back and forth between then and now : the real-and-actual and the desired .
7 The prosperity of the Catalan economy had thus come to be at the mercy of events outside Spain .
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