Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] [prep] [pers pn] at [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | It was a great pleasure to talk to you at dear Crabb 's breakfast party . |
| 3 | Taxi driver Peter Simpson said that two cars raced past him at high speed . |
| 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 | Their role is to deal with routine business delegated to them at weekly or monthly meetings ; |
| 6 | The leading soccer and horserace commentators , with sometimes far more difficult foreign names coming at them at full pelt out of the fog , seem to manage wordperfectly and not give up the ghost in a surfeit of sniggers . |
| 7 | ‘ I get a lot of laughs from everyone who sees me , especially when I 'm going across long grass and all they can see is an airline captain coming towards them at great speed with exhaust smoke coming from my rear end . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | The track was like a tin roof , with corrugations running across it at right angles six inches deep . |
| 10 | As a result , he was taken completely by surprise when twelve stone of lean muscle powered into him at snake-like speed and wrenched the gun aside , the shot slamming into a very surprised Froebe , who staggered back , the impact of his body cracking one of the windows . |