Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] at the [noun sg] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ One of them was so desperate to stop me overtaking at the ford he lost his footing and fell backwards into the water . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ He 's asked me to dine at the villa he 's looking after for a few months , just to oblige a couple of ex-pats . |
| 3 | I mean at the moment we ca n't . |
| 4 | We do n't want pe I mean we do n't want sales reps agreeing to allocations I mean at the moment we have n't got anybody to administer them it 's being done by groups it 's going to be a nightmare in a big way |
| 5 | I mean at the moment they 've got it short , but they have it long here and long at the back and then everywhere else short , short back and sides |
| 6 | I mean , fixed rates are dangerous because once you 've fixed , if interest rates then go up , you 've lost out on your er return and you ca n't get your money out anyway , so I mean at the moment it 's really erm er er very deeply into the cycle of low , of low interest rates . |
| 7 | I mean at the moment it just evades it . |
| 8 | But when he gets round to it , I think he 'll control them a bit more closely , now you can invest in that sort of fund quite safely , and although it wo n't give you any capital growth , because if they 're giving you ten percent income , obviously the capital growth 's going to be limited , but er if it 's the income that you 're after , not a bad thing to do , so I mean at the moment I may actually combine one income-type er P E P with one growth and income , where the , where the , perhaps the yield is about five percent . |
| 9 | There was a problem with gilt funds about three years ago , and T S B ran up against the problem of falling gilt yields and trying to maintain the , the flow to the investor , which they did , but th they failed to tell the investor that they were having to erm sell gilts and er trade under market value , so in fact you reduce the fund , but there are halfway stages , and I mean at the moment I can get round about eight percent , plus on , on erm er offshore funds . |
| 10 | you know , but I mean at the moment I keep , he 's coming home some nights and , you know it like , he 'll come home and say I had a really good morning the kids were great , but as for the afternoon , and like he said when you 're teaching you 're only as good as your last lesson , you know |
| 11 | Oh they bag something terrible but then I say at the price I 'm not gon na buy them , I 'm not , but in the Dodger 's there 's not one small in any colour |
| 12 | I mean if if I 'd done that this morning and I 'd written it all up before you came in and then said well what we 've done is this and then we did that and then we did that but as as it was generated as we discussed then then you were with me I hope at the way it went |
| 13 | As I look at the water I hear a distinctive slurp as a chub sucks some morsel through the surface ; then I see the rings rippling away from the spot where it happened . |
| 14 | I just try to make sure I look at the person I 'm talking to , and show them I 'm interested . |
| 15 | ‘ When I arrived at the river I was n't at all sure I was doing the right thing because the water temperature was 4.1 degrees Centigrade and the air temperature was 1.8 degrees , ’ said Les . |
| 16 | When I arrived at the school I saw some people who I recognised from the induction days . |
| 17 | When I arrived at the counter I asked for Katrina . |
| 18 | it 'll be back again Mind you , I feel it I mean I know at the moment it 's it 's me I my elbows in the morning I ca n't hardly move them when I wake up in the morning because I get that far my arms have to be outside the bed and our bedroom 's that cold |
| 19 | I will say that Roy dealt with it , when it happened and I know at the time he , he was very very thorough over it . |
| 20 | I come to the hurdle which I confessed at the outset I might find difficult to clear : why collect first editions anyway , since the path is so littered with obstructions , difficulties and bibliographical rubbish , and the pilgrimage is often attended with so much expense ? |
| 21 | No I , no , I mean you really respond very well , that Tchaikovsky was lovely , I understand at the present you ca n't do as much and admirable as you 're still doing . |
| 22 | For I worked at the council they were trying to make a road there then . |
| 23 | The thing has little music & little choiceness of words , but I fancied at the time it was genuine enough . |
| 24 | ‘ I knew at the time it would probably come to nothing , ’ he said . |
| 25 | Now as I looked at the tree I saw that the great things had been there all the time but I had mistaken them for the background . |
| 26 | I half got up , then I looked at the hole he 'd gone down and at the paper in my hand . |
| 27 | While there are problems in the class , … when I looked at the programme I could see that problems that are caused because you are not explaining yourself , you are not getting them down to work , they do n't understand what they 're doing . |
| 28 | I looked at the tin she 'd handed me . |
| 29 | And the wallpaper , I looked at the wallpaper I thought , God if I can get a blind like that ! |
| 30 | I thought at the time it was a crazy thing to agree to and early events seemed to confirm this . |