Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] [pers pn] at [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mistake was perhaps to let Moira F. see it at this stage , he wrote . |
| 2 | ‘ We want to see proper education and we have said we will put a penny on income tax to provide it at all levels from the age of three upwards . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ But in any case , you had no right to leave me at that pub all night . |
| 4 | If a method of collecting evidence is reliable , it means that anybody else using this method , or the same person using it at another time , would come up with the same results . |
| 5 | ‘ Normally we do n't like people to see them at this stage . |
| 6 | The vulgar Miller intrudes , and , with his fabliau and the nature of the genre and of fabliau language in mind , we can find some amusement in contemplating the possible sexual reading of " " unbokeled is the male " " , " the purse is unbuckled " , a vulgarity that the Host , playing the role given him at this point , would no doubt have considered excluded from his words . |
| 7 | Danger of choking stopped him at that point . |
| 8 | There were times when Eliot seemed uncertain or ill at ease , suddenly very much the " resident alien " — one has the impression , always , of a man invaded by inexplicable moods and anxieties which he did his best to conceal — and Hayward 's own dominating and very English manner afforded him at such times a certain amount of confidence . |
| 9 | Can I say that we are now organising quite tightly the business of street collections , and I think if committee are minded to reduce the number of collections that we allow , we should decide that before we come to this meeting , because I think it 's very difficult in practical terms to do it at this stage , and therefore I would suggest that we do agree twenty-one , not withstanding what Graham said , we can take on board some of what he said , and maybe the month before we are asked to take this decision , we have an item on the agenda where we discuss the principle before we get down to the practicalities . |
| 10 | There are few caves in this part of the world today , and there is no record of snowy owls entering them at any time . |
| 11 | If you feel further clarification is required BEFORE setting investigations in hand obtain it at this stage — otherwise unnecessary investigative duplication may arise . |
| 12 | A matron chaperoned them at all times , trekking them from digs to school , on to the theatre and finally back to their digs at night , the crocodile of children walking slower as the day progressed . |
| 13 | One of the more experienced printers remembers Laura asking him at this time to ‘ have a go ’ at producing a pattern she liked . |
| 14 | ‘ Paul accompanied me at some services . |
| 15 | Eadmer inserted them at this point into his Historia Novorum . |
| 16 | This reinforced my interest in the subject , but as I soon became involved in postgraduate studies in busy medical , surgical and then paediatric units I had little time to pursue it at that stage . |
| 17 | This is partly because eating foods you do n't like ( and avoiding those you do ) day after day is nigh-on impossible , and partly because your personal cholesterol level is as normal and natural for you as your shoe size , so your body has various feedback mechanisms to keep it at that level . |
| 18 | Yes but did the Party want , did the Party mean it at this stage ? |
| 19 | The handlers thrust them at each other , withdrew them , thrust again . |