Example sentences of "[verb] [pers pn] [adv] at the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Put them together at the last possible moment and cover with a damp tea towel until you serve them . |
| 2 | He told her so at the very end . |
| 3 | He raised them now at the two shaken women who sat facing him in the interview-room at Stowbridge police station . |
| 4 | ‘ Emilia , dearest , do you imagine I could abandon you now at the very moment I have longed for ? |
| 5 | They have fired this interest by spending £44m on the issue , aiming it primarily at the retail investor when one might expect an issue of this sort to be more suitable for institutions . |
| 6 | Please do not hesitate to contact me here at the above number if you have any other queries or concerns . |
| 7 | It still ran away from him but he grabbed it again at the second attempt before it went over the line and the chance had gone . |
| 8 | He nearly rang Fred up , but he would be seeing him tomorrow at the first night . |
| 9 | We met Audrey and Margaret on the way , and we saw them again at the next stop , Motueka , 60 miles to the north . |
| 10 | Self-delusion could easily once again cloud the judgment of the shadow cabinet and Labour could go it alone at the next election , perhaps with the same misplaced confidence in a ‘ safety first ’ stance that will deliver success if the dangers inherent in new initiatives are avoided and new ideas anathemised . |
| 11 | I remember that she asked me to guess what was inside a sort of pasty served to her on Thásos , and that I got it right at the first guess : macaroni . |
| 12 | I would have liked to have heard it again at the second service but Dad made us hurry home . |
| 13 | When they reached the prison , at Riom , and an official tried to argue that they had no authority to remove the canisters , Jacques Allier took out a pistol and levelled it wordlessly at the bureaucratic face . |
| 14 | Sabine pinned on a polite smile , and aimed it straight at the oncoming vehicle 's windscreen . |
| 15 | He said it straight at the senior officer , who looked for a moment as if someone had cracked a whip in his face . |
| 16 | Quite suddenly he let go and sort of pushed me away at the same time . |
| 17 | In 1979 he voted for Margaret Thatcher , backing her again at the last election after a switch to the SDP in 1983 . |
| 18 | Chesarynth gripped it convulsively at the strange sight of people milling around . |