Example sentences of "[verb] [pers pn] [conj] at the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Tradition has it that at the cremation of Gautama Buddha in India in 543 BC the tooth survived the flames and was brought to Kandy in the fourth century AD . |
| 2 | Slavonic legend has it that at the time of the Creation of the World a group of malignant spirits staged a revolt against Svarog , the sky god . |
| 3 | Furthermore , many absences from services in the post-Reformation period were occasioned not by apathy or reluctance to forgo a morning 's work or relaxation , but rather by ill-health or family commitments ; when William Kirke of Stow-cum-Quy in Cambridgeshire , for example , was hauled before the church courts for absenteeism , he informed them that at the time his wife had been ‘ lying in childbed and also his children wanted succour ’ . |
| 4 | Yes , your worships I wonder if I may assist the court o on behalf of er M Mrs erm Mrs er has told me that she thought at the time of the incident again was in fact , nearer to five o'clock than than , than four thirty and she was driving from Billington towards Clitheroe she had come through the traffic lights at the bottom of Accrington Road in Worley and she was proceeding along King Street in Worley er , towards towards Clitheroe and sh she has told me that at the time there was a considerable amount of traffic on the road and yo i in fact had that confirmed to you by er , my friend er the the traffic was sufficiently heavy that in fact , the the traffic travelling in the direction of Blackburn er was wai was backed up to the traffic lights as far as the zebra crossing and beyond it and so as Mrs erm was travelling towards Clitheroe her view of the children on the footpath at the opposite side of the road was obstructed by the cars that were er , travelling towards Blackburn . |
| 5 | she 's had her chance and I 'm doing all I can to help her but at the end of the day it 's on her shoulders . |
| 6 | Well I get involved in it in so many different ways erm this is a difficult one , but one of the things that happens is that a number of teachers , both from the area and elsewhere , erm do advanced courses at the university and as part of these courses we have a unit on evaluation , and for this they will choose some area of their school work which they and their colleagues — and I emphasise that this is something they do have to involve their colleagues back at school in very much — erm feel it would be useful to look at and then they try and discuss with their colleagues what aspects of it are important and significant and what ought to be seen , and they bring this discussion back and we all discuss together there 'll be different teachers working on different problems the different ways in which they could approach this problem and how they might most usefully be able to do it and at the end of the exercise they will have found out quite a lot about this particular area of teaching and very often we find that the people they 've consulted have themselves got quite interested in it and begun to realize that it 's not being done in a way that 's there to threaten them , they 're not sending a report to the headmaster or the Chief Education Officer or anything like that — it 's for the benefit of the people doing the work themselves . |
| 7 | on your interview she said I want you tell us because at the end of the , your interview she said , it 'll help us to do the others , so they told us , giving me different situations , she 's took a patient out to a cafe and the patient pinched a cake and eaten it , what would you do ? |
| 8 | Then as the evening goes on they begin to understand him and at the end they genuinely feel sorry and care for him . |
| 9 | Well , that by now familiar music will tell you that at the end of January , Douglas Cameron 's Breakfast Call will be broadcasting live from Sydney , and in the next few minutes , I 'll be telling you how you can join us down under , for the Dougie Down Under Competition , stay tuned for that , thanks to QUANTAS , Australia 's national airline . |
| 10 | if it starts getting milky then I change it but at the moment there 's only one little fish see ? |
| 11 | ‘ No , you said I 'd handle them and at the time I agreed but now I 've changed my mind , ’ Ruth told him firmly . |
| 12 | But at least the fusion community needs such volumes to remind it that at the end of the day the scientific juggling will come to nothing if it does not lead to a convenient and not too expensive source of electricity . |
| 13 | Ruth was tempted to tell her that at the time she had not had the vicar in mind , but since Mrs Peterson had not come to bring her any comfort , she simply turned her face to the wall . |