Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] [pron] at [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Gassendi adopted it enthusiastically and argued for it at great length . |
| 2 | But the dreariness , the frightful struggle of life , the indifference of people , the troublesomeness of children — he did not want to be reminded of them at that moment . |
| 3 | Anyway I wo n't say any more because I 'll other people will eventually go but Hugh Berger is a gentleman who owns it or who lives in it at this time |
| 4 | I ought to write to her at some point . |
| 5 | Their excellent long-distance vision spots something suspicious and they fly to it at high speed . |
| 6 | He had often told her that it was a social disadvantage having the sort of wife he could n't take anywhere , but he dropped this line when she started appearing beside him at literary lunches and old school do 's . |
| 7 | Talking to Gavin Selerie in 1983 McGrath detailed some of the influences that came to work on him at that time . |
| 8 | That is not a matter where the parties are sufficiently advanced for it to be addressed to me at this stage . |
| 9 | But I do think the specific point you make as to whether there 's any prospect of the National Commission for Racial Equality putting any money towards the development worker that 's wished , ought to be addressed by somebody at some point in the context of preparing the next report . |
| 10 | Then he gallops towards it at terrific speed . |
| 11 | Hoomey could n't think of him at four pounds . |
| 12 | You were allowed up to three visitors at a time and had to sit opposite them at individual tables . |
| 13 | Apart from and me , there is , a rather lugubrious ( though pleasant ) Peruvian , and , the French Canadian , whole reminds me of , in that he expects everything to be done for him at little cost in exchange for a good wit and ready sense of humour — also like , he plays the piano , with a special line in French songs . |
| 14 | There may be no alternative to leave-of-absence or annual leave but the nurse should be given the opportunity to resolve her difficulty by seeking the help of colleagues who may be prepared to substitute for her at short notice . |
| 15 | Russell was what you might call a social climber , inasmuch as he specialized in fitting out rock shelters for himself at various altitudes and if possible receiving his friends in them . |
| 16 | There is nothing that USL can do about it at this point , it says . |
| 17 | ‘ We were looking forward to going seven points clear for Christmas but four will do for me at this stage . ’ |
| 18 | As he says of himself at that juncture in his career , his quitting in Monaco was ‘ the climax to a situation which had existed all year , stemming … basically from a lack of interest and enthusiasm ’ . |
| 19 | The only charge that can be made against you at this moment is of theft from our house , however that may be read hereafter . |
| 20 | The standard interpretation of their redshifts says that NGC 4319 is receding from us at 1800 km per sec , while the redshift of Markarian 205 indicates a recession velocity of 21 000 km per sec ( The Redshift Controversy , G. B. Field , H. Arp & J. N. Bahcall , W. A. Benjamin , New York , 1974 , p 46 ) . |
| 21 | He comes into close contact with both a teacher and other children of his own age and many of his future feelings about himself will result from what happens to him at this time . |
| 22 | Did it matter to you at that time who it was ? |
| 23 | Before I start , if you have written to me at some time and recognise your own problems in what follows — please do n't take offence ! |
| 24 | Several correspondents have written to me at different times expressing the wish that we join forces in order to become more effective . |
| 25 | We 've had four three-legged dogs over the years : Bless-her , who was born with a hind leg missing ; Belle whose front leg was amputated at seven weeks because of a ligament problem ; Tulley , a road accident victim who came to us at nine months old and fought for 18 months to keep his damaged front leg . |
| 26 | I saw him a lot at the Ehukai Beach Park where he was based , but only managed to talk to him at any length at a party in the hills . |
| 27 | The telephone answering machine , and my clients ' willingness to talk to me at unusual hours of the day and night , kept me firmly in touch . |
| 28 | It was a great pleasure to talk to you at dear Crabb 's breakfast party . |
| 29 | He had not written anything he had not already said to me at different times ’ . ’ |
| 30 | I could not have conceived of any circumstances in which it would have been sensible for any particular political group to murder Gaitskell , and the likelihood that it was murder — in such an immensely complicated fashion — seemed to me at first blush fanciful and absurd . |