Example sentences of "[pron] [noun sg] [adv] at the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I met and married my husband just at the point when I was beginning to apply for senior registrar posts . |
| 2 | With my father away at the war , she had been forced to leave her home and became a refugee in a village in Slovenia near Ljubljana . |
| 3 | And for someone in my position to make a jump from one thing to another and to be feeling better than I 've felt in ten years , feeling like I 'm at the top of my game creatively at the moment , must mean that I 've grown in the making of this album . |
| 4 | ‘ I do n't think we 've had anyone like that in my time here at the club and I will be pleased if Mark agrees to join us . ’ |
| 5 | Her red lipstick was smudged and she had n't bothered to pin up her hair properly at the sides . |
| 6 | Leonora gave him a polite smile as she tied her hair securely at the nape of her neck . |
| 7 | He saw her glance across at the table and followed her gaze to the brandy bottle . |
| 8 | There was no trying to disappear , for even though she had taken to parking her car carefully at the back of the premises , she knew the front door was wide open and the painter in the hall would certainly , if asked , say that she was around . |
| 9 | Never leave it out in its run overnight at the mercy of foxes . |
| 10 | Investment in the military by a state enhances its security only at the expense of its neighbours . |
| 11 | ( 1 ) Make sure that the committee starts its business promptly at the time announced . |
| 12 | She shook her head despairingly at the girl she had once been . |
| 13 | But the hysteric purchased her escape from the effects of frequent sexual demands on her life only at the cost of pain , disability and an intensification of women 's traditional dependence . |
| 14 | We will see , ’ he murmured , making her blush wildly at the innuendo . |
| 15 | And while these big men were entertaining outside St George 's Hall today , stand-up geniuses Lee Evans and Mark Thomas were gearing up for their show tonight at the Merseyside Academy . |
| 16 | you can see them on Sunday they 're live on the Central Match … its Derby away at the Baseball Ground … |
| 17 | She pulled his shirt away at the back of his neck and dropped the document down inside . |
| 18 | On their last visit to the Megabowl he had hurled his projectile directly at the fruit machines . |
| 19 | He reappeared with his shotgun just at the moment Judas was handing over his master . |
| 20 | ‘ He 's got one or two things on his mind just at the moment . ’ |
| 21 | But he defended his attitude firmly at the Cabinet on the same day . |
| 22 | The poor man was also banished from the grounds of the house to take up his station either at the gate or beyond it . |
| 23 | Adam shook his head curtly at the offer of a chair . |
| 24 | ‘ I 'm going to make you the new Madonna , ’ Waterman promised his new prodigy , but even today he shakes his head disbelievingly at the opportunity others missed . |
| 25 | He was rubbing the top of his skull just at the hairline , but seemed otherwise unaffected . |
| 26 | Tom Poole , who had nursed his father devotedly at the end , was in low spirits , but was as instantly captivated by his visitor as he had been at their first meeting . |
| 27 | ‘ You wrote that you caught him at his flat just at the time he was leaving the country . ’ |
| 28 | Angalo waved his hand irritably at the screens . |
| 29 | Sir Ralph Grunte raised his hand dutifully at the end of Norman Lamont 's reply . |
| 30 | For the first time population could increase with a declining grain price and a less than commensurate food output , subsisting on grain imports paid for by manufactures ; ‘ It is one of the most striking ironies of intellectual history that Malthus should have fashioned his analysis just at the time when it was about to cease to be applicable to the country in which he lived ’ ( Wrigley 1986 ) . |