Example sentences of "[pron] [prep] [noun] at the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Professor Thomas Gordon joined them for breakfast at the New Inn , after which they went to a Service at the ‘ English chapel ’ , that is to say , the Episcopalian , that is to say , the Anglican church in Scotland . |
| 2 | Sir William Hildred , who as Director-General at the new Ministry of Civil Aviation was Britain 's senior civil servant in charge of aviation , told a meeting in September 1945 that he had lost interest in the Bristol 167 because its undercarriage width of 93 feet was wider than any runway then in existence , and two prototypes were estimated to cost £7 million . |
| 3 | There was even talk , Frank 's idea , of going to Ireland ( European tours , filling me with excitement at the very thought , were not for the likes of us ) . |
| 4 | Another Alex Delaware thriller , with a new one in hardcover at the same time . |
| 5 | So this is how keeps them in check at the special analysis section of the Ipswich Maltings . |
| 6 | The governors decided to give all these matters priority and to consider them in detail at the next meeting . |
| 7 | Finally , the Yugoslav government held up payment to the construction enterprises for several more months , and then paid them in dinars at the current rate of exchange , which was considerably worse than the rate applicable at the time when payment was originally due . |
| 8 | This was a perpetual source of vexation to Mahmoud and his efforts to do something about it drove him towards reform at the political level — he was a member of the Nationalist Party — and perfectionism in his daily work . |
| 9 | She did n't feel comfortable and safe with anybody but Angus : he had n't tried to push her into bed at the first opportunity . |
| 10 | How , more than anything , he 'd wanted to tell his family all about her , but how , because Rosemary had shrunk away from him in horror at the very idea , he had given her his solemn promise that , outside this building , her name would never leave his lips . |
| 11 | Evening found her in despair at the crude grey mass . |
| 12 | Producer Michael White saw her in Monotones at the Royal Opera House and signed her as the haunting governess in the Julian Sands-Patsy Kensit film , Turn Of The Screw . |
| 13 | Inside the bedroom she stared around her in awe at the sheer scale and opulence of the room . |
| 14 | That had been twelve years ago , just one year after the Chairman of the Revolutionary Command Council had promoted him to Director at the Atomic Energy Commission . |
| 15 | The prosecution decided that Jean Campbell knew the difference between right and wrong and the consequence of punishment for any wrongful deed , and that she had the power of communicating her thoughts , albeit by signs , and put her on trial at the next sessions , which took place on 24th September 1817 . |
| 16 | He 'd taken her to dinner at The Black Dog and through him she 'd spent Christmas at Laura 's . |
| 17 | Trying to teach a concept and use it for communication at the same time is an impossible task . |
| 18 | The state-owned Scottish Nuclear company , which operates Scotland 's two nuclear plants , has decided to " dry store " most of its spent nuclear fuel , rather than send it for reprocessing at the British Nuclear Fuels plant at Sellafield . |
| 19 | When I raised it as Chairman at the General Management Committee , I was disgusted to find that people laughed at the very subject that was so important to women who 've come up here today to let us know the consequences of what was happening . |
| 20 | He looked at the traffic roaring by , and over it through railings at the leafy greenness of Gray 's Inn , edging into view on his right . |
| 21 | Reced er the precedent for the situation that we are in now , yes indeed there is one and it was when er the Labour government was last in power in nineteen seventy eight , when we had er er er to er set up the European constituencies we had a limited time to do it in and all the countries in Europe had to agree to bring forward the same kind of agreement and put it into effect at the same time . |
| 22 | At the last general election , the section on Northern Ireland in the Tory manifesto would have appeared under the heading ‘ foreign affairs ’ if someone had n't noticed it in proof at the last moment . |
| 23 | Even where it is clear that proceedings be commenced in a county court , practitioners must concern themselves with quantum at the pleading stages . |
| 24 | So I made myself at home at the Golden Turk ; the two-faced landlord greeted me civilly enough , providing a chamber on the second floor with a pallet bed and a few sticks of furniture . |
| 25 | And th and then we have Mr Lilley saying that there were lots of people at the Tory Party Conference , remember , he had his little list that he was going to go through and and erm chop out all the , the social security scroungers and people who abused the system . |
| 26 | The proportion of women in higher education has risen sharply in recent decades — one of the most visible gains in the egalitarian struggle — although in practice young female school-leavers are still less qualified than their male counterparts ( and this signifies , in this country , a truly parlous state of readiness for adult occupations ) ; while in the teaching profession itself , women have yet to achieve anything like parity at the higher levels , as college heads , directors of departments and university professors . |
| 27 | Steps should be taken to ensure that Allied PW held in Russian Area are transferred to us in exchange at the same time . |