Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] [pers pn] at [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.

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1 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 .
2 You were allowed up to three visitors at a time and had to sit opposite them at individual tables .
3 Several correspondents have written to me at different times expressing the wish that we join forces in order to become more effective .
4 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 .
5 He had not written anything he had not already said to me at different times ’ . ’
6 But that 's because we 're looking at it at close quarters .
7 He will play for defending champions Kelburne tomorrow against DW Clydesdale and will be available to play for them at regular intervals throughout the second half of the season in addition to the finals of the European Club Championship in May .
8 This may be the thing that the world as a whole would want to buy from them at economic rates .
9 It is essential , though , that the knowledge and skills people have are not taken from them , repackaged and sold to them at exorbitant prices .
10 She 's only limping on it at certain times cos she came rushing into my bedroom last night and you were n't limping then !
11 On three sides of this mound there is a colonnade on a raised platform comprising sixteen evenly spaced square pillars of unhewn stone , each thirty-two feet high , linked together at the top by heavy beams with ropes and chains hanging from them at short intervals .
12 The track was like a tin roof , with corrugations running across it at right angles six inches deep .
13 It would control referrals to providers outside the district and it would pay for them at negotiated prices .
14 It would also control patient referrals to providers outside the district and would pay for them at negotiated prices .
15 It would control referrals to providers outside the District and it would pay for them at negotiated prices .
16 The slices were perfectly aligned , and then a second layer was placed across them at right angles .
17 In his triumph the victorious general was supposed to be accompanied by a slave repeating to him at suitable intervals : " Respice post te , hominem te memento " ( Tertull .
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