Example sentences of "[verb] [pers pn] at a [noun sg] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One of the lads asked me at a dance how I had earned my living before I had got married . |
| 2 | He looked up from the desk , caught her at a moment when , against her will , tears had filled her eyes . |
| 3 | ‘ There are people who are prepared to take advantage , selling trees under false pretences , valuing them at a lot more than they are worth . |
| 4 | Last year and this year they could have upgraded it at a cost much greater than the initial expenditure and much less efficiently . |
| 5 | But I had bought mine at a time when I 'd luckily accumulated some nice big fees , and she is just what I need , in every way . |
| 6 | We regret having to disturb you at a time when you are busy , but the matter is important . ’ |
| 7 | He fended her off simply by the expedient of grasping her wrists , holding her at a distance so that she could n't even contrive to kick his shins . |
| 8 | If it did not exist , would anyone trouble to invent it at a time when , from the Atlantic to the Urals , socialism in all its manifestations is losing the argument to liberal capitalism ? |
| 9 | They took assets on to their books assuming they would sell them at a profit shortly afterwards . |
| 10 | Well you you buy it all at thirty three or twenty five percent discount so you can then sell it at a bit more . |
| 11 | His speed was such he did n't approach it at a speed where he could erm er l lay off and er let something happen . |
| 12 | Although my work as CBC Production Manager kept me at a desk rather than on the production floor , I was occasionally able to produce plays . |
| 13 | Corbett could only shout at Ranulf to stay and do nothing before Selkirk took him at a canter out of the abbey . |
| 14 | It would have been foolhardy to risk weakening it at a time when the Cold War was about to turn hot in Korea . |
| 15 | Gerry Fitzgerald , the Belfast Telegraph 's award-winning photographer , took it at a day out by the National Canine Defence League at Ballymena . |
| 16 | Far from reducing taxation , as we had been elected to do , we would have to raise it — and raise it at a time when local councils were already pushing up rates . |
| 17 | Will my hon. Friend pass to the National Audit Office the thanks of Parliament for its series of reports and ask whether it would be possible for us to have them at a time when Parliament is likely to be sitting rather than at one minute to midnight for the benefit of the press ? |
| 18 | Part of the answer must be that the element of risk in a PRP scheme reduces its attractiveness to employees , hence the advantages of introducing it at a time when the alternative ( no pay rise ) is even worse . |
| 19 | Someone , in other words , who is likely to take silk , but likely to take it at a time sufficiently far in the future to give you a chance of stepping into part of his practice as a junior . |