Example sentences of "[adj] [prep] [pers pn] at [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You do n't want people patronising you , feeling sorry for you at such moments . |
| 2 | We will discuss some of them at various points in this book . |
| 3 | At a launch of a new diagnostic technique the Chief Executive of a hi-tech company in the medical field seeks your advice on two public relations programmes : I Aimed at his own company 's staff : 230 of them at two factories 65 miles apart and at an R and D facility with 38 senior staff . |
| 4 | The third was inhabited by small people , half a dozen of them at various times ; of whom Pat Billon , 2-foot 10-inch ( 85-cm ) tall , became the best known and most publicized . |
| 5 | The 1990s will call for all of us at all levels to be 30% [ not 20% ] more skilful in our selling , servicing and administration practices . |
| 6 | The faint silvery-white outline of his robe and his face were clearly discernible to her at all times , and so overpowering was the experience at first that in the early morning , as she poured out a cup of tea , she would pour a second cup and absent-mindedly walk towards the chair and say : ‘ Here 's a cup of tea for you , ’ and then jolt back to reality , shaking her head : ‘ Agh , I must be mad ! |
| 7 | Possibly not very ecologically sound but safer for you at all events . |
| 8 | Oxford Molecular exists to ensure that the latest research software is made available to them at acceptable prices . |
| 9 | ‘ The Prophet ’ had always been made welcome at Priesthill and Isabel assured him that nothing would change ; their door would be open to him at all times . |
| 10 | They seemed expensive to her at nineteen shillings and elevenpence but the small boy loved them . |
| 11 | At the target range in Van Nuys , a lower middle-class white suburb in the Valley , north of Central Los Angeles , I saw a dozen people line up early in the morning to take target practice with hand-guns , shooting at targets shaped like men — most of them at 25 paces : ‘ the most common range for street warfare , ’ as one man there put it . |