Example sentences of "[verb] [pers pn] at the [adj] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 The fact that the Prime Minister of Great Britain had twice flown to Germany to intercede with him , and on the third occasion had hurried across Europe with the heads of the French and Italian Governments to meet him at the shortest possible notice , constituted a personal triumph for Hitler .
2 ‘ I just missed everything , ’ moaned Ivanisevic , who crashed 6-3 , 7-6 , 7-6 to a clay court specialist who also beat him at the French Open this year .
3 ‘ I just missed everything , ’ moaned Ivanisevic , who crashed 6-3 , 7-6 , 7-6 to a clay court specialist who also beat him at the French Open this year .
4 Whilst it is necessary to commence with an idea or concept , it is important to evaluate it at the earliest possible time , and thus the procedure is to commence testing by moving briefly into both the analysis and scheming phases .
5 You rarely need more than a teaspoonful , you add it at the absolute final moment of cooking , you do not blaze it ( at least I do not ) , you treat it simply as a seasoning .
6 If rail travel gets worse before it gets better , voters may dump them at the next general election .
7 Whatever the General may consider best , I will destroy you at the first available opportunity . ’
8 I heaved him at the other two and they went down , firing wild into the air .
9 Rose saw him at the heavy red gate of the yard .
10 As he told me he did not possess the book and had lost sight of the paper , I hurried to London , located it at the National Central Library , as it then was , copied out the essay in longhand ( being fed with sheet after sheet of paper by the rather puzzled girl at the reception-desk ) , and called with it at Faber 's .
11 All we we 've agreed that we 're going to need someone to control it at the next fair .
12 They would n't serve us at the first few joints we tried , which was n't surprising , because we came through the door yelling our head off , or trying to , in this faulty new voice of ours .
13 He left her at the large ornate gate , and she walked up the short drive to the front door .
14 But our intention is to take account of your views and address the issues that concern you at the earliest practicable opportunity .
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