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

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1 to grow things you 've got ta do it at a specific time if you 're gon na wan na plan
2 He had the faculty of meeting everyone on the level , and Father had a story of seeing him at a political meeting , which he was probably chairing , walking arm in arm with the Grand Old Man himself , both talking .
3 Dewey , as is well known , divided knowledge into tens so that he could employ decimal notation ; when a particular subject turned out to have more than nine facets he had to group them together , often at the expense of logic , and if a new facet arrived in-conveniently there was no way of including it at an appropriate place in the hierarchy .
4 Both men also received annuities of 1,000 marks , which went some considerable way towards endowing them at a level appropriate to their rank .
5 Chlorine is relatively easy to measure I 'm sure you 'll all of done it at A level chemistry titration , silver nitrate ?
6 He said the scheme could give confidence to youngsters who were in danger of losing it at a crucial time in their lives through adverse family or other circumstances .
7 Finally retrieval is a separate process because of another familiar phenomenon that it is possible to know something , that is it must be in storage , but not actually succeed in retrieving it at a particular time .
8 informal rejection or acceptance of the planning proposal , without expressing it at a formal level
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