Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] [pron] at [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I found you at first light this morning , ’ he said , getting up to take her half-empty plate . |
| 2 | ‘ Although someone supervises me at all times , I handle all my cases myself . |
| 3 | Oh dear , I told them at one point why we did , and I 've had it |
| 4 | I read it at one sitting , and it scared me stupid . |
| 5 | I believe everybody at some point needs support . |
| 6 | I discuss it at some length in Chapter 6 . |
| 7 | ‘ I said pregnancies , because I lost one at four months and another at six months . |
| 8 | However , because I knew her at close quarters only during her maiden years and have not seen her once since she went to the West Country to become ‘ Mrs Benn ’ , you will perhaps excuse my impropriety in referring to her as I knew her , and in my mind have continued to call her throughout these years . |
| 9 | It is an error to assume , as I did myself at one time , that theory necessarily exists in an ancillary and elucidatory relationship to criticism , which is in turn at the service of literature . |
| 10 | I throw myself at this Azadi and we wrestle like children in the mud . |
| 11 | If I snatch your hat from your head with intent to steal it , that is conversion as well as trespass , but if I throw it at another person , that is trespass only , for I am not questioning your title to it . |
| 12 | I wish we at Homegreen House had been visited by a member of the council to explain what could happen if permission for a supermarket to be built is approved . |
| 13 | It ran : ‘ Well , frankly , the problem as I see it at this moment in time is whether I should just lie down under all this hassle … |
| 14 | It ran : ‘ Well , frankly , the problem as I see it at this moment in time is whether I should just lie down under all this hassle … |
| 15 | CHARLES : Well , frankly , the problem as I see it At this moment in time is whether I Should just lie down under all this hassle And let them walk all over me , Or , whether I should just say : ‘ OK , I get the message ’ , and do myself in . |
| 16 | Nobody want them at twenty pound ? |
| 17 | Now let us explore what lies behind the contemporary appearance of quite another group of towns : towns which reveal nothing at first sight of their secret , physical history , and which indeed seem to have little or nothing in common as one looks at them and around their streets . |
| 18 | Comfortable Government majorities on two key motions followed a searing fightback by the Chancellor , Norman Lamont , during raucous exchanges which saw him at one stage on the ropes in the face of a furious tirade by , alternately , the Labour leader , John Smith , and the shadow chancellor , Gordon Brown . |
| 19 | Now nobody help her at this stage . |
| 20 | You can not ask me to help you at one moment , and leave me out in the cold the next . ’ |
| 21 | And more and more she met herself at this hour , too late to phone anyone , too weary to sleep . |
| 22 | He was only halfway there when she passed him at full speed , shouting ‘ Slow coach ! ’ as she flew ahead . |
| 23 | She phoned him at all hours of the day and night , ranting sometimes , crying others . |
| 24 | To those who encountered him at this time , he seemed to grow more thick-set and muscular , endowed already with a public presence . |
| 25 | But as you say you at that point you do have to stop . |
| 26 | If she felt the presence of a man she had never known here in this house , just how much did Marguerite feel his presence and just how much did she need it at this time ? |
| 27 | She composed herself at some leisure before answering . |
| 28 | It does n't sound quite so good when you put it at that sort of level , cause it puts a school at risk , but of course there 's no reason why a county council should n't borrow considerably more than this council does , looked at on accounting principle , unless I 'm wrong , and Mr I 'm going to call in a minute , will correct me if I am . |
| 29 | I can not recall whether it was a Labour Government who set it at that figure . |
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