Example sentences of "[verb] [vb pp] [pers pn] at the [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | As for their laying the birch on my pocket , I compute that my support of Lewis and Brzeska has cost me at the lowest estimate about £20 per year , from one source alone since that regrettable occurrence , since I dared to discern a great sculptor and a great painter in the midst of England 's artistic desolaton . |
2 | ‘ Story of my life , ’ he growls when a red declines to go into a pocket for the simple reason that he has hit it at the wrong angle . |
3 | I 'd met her at the odd party where we 'd chatted and that 's about it . ’ |
4 | It seems unlikely that William Joyce would not have known it at the same time . |
5 | If the purchaser himself intends to dispose subsequently of these assets he will prefer to have acquired them at the higher base cost to minimise capital gains or corporation tax on a subsequent disposal . |
6 | Tight in his hand he held the silver coin that Dad had given him at the front door . |
7 | She projected a kind of agelessness , which had made her at the same time an object of attention from both the Young Women 's Fitness Class and the Over-50s Club . |
8 | Somehow — it did not seem diplomatic to enquire too deeply just how — he had missed her at the arranged spot . |
9 | If he had played me at the same age he 'd have given me three blacks start and a beating . |
10 | Miss Coldharbour had recruited her at the last moment to help serve supper for Canon Wheeler 's guests who included the Bishop and the Earl of Medewich and Markham . |
11 | They 've castrated him at the same time |