Example sentences of "[pron] [noun prp] [verb] at [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There are many reasons for this , which Romaine discusses at some length . |
| 2 | Some Franks were prepared to fight under the Roman Paul , just as Childeric 's men had once followed Aegidius according to a rather more legendary story which Gregory of Tours knew , but which Fredegar related at greater length . |
| 3 | The Waste Land hardly suggests that the inhabitants of the twentieth-century city are conscious actors in fertility rites , but since these , long forgotten , underlie our behaviour , since the ‘ sexual instinct ’ plays a role in ‘ the religion and mythology of primitive peoples ( indeed in all religion ) ’ , and since Christianity and primitive ritual are linked , the poem expresses despair at the change and decay not only of city churches which Eliot visited at this time , but of all belief . |
| 4 | Several photographs from that holiday went into the huge scrapbook which John compiled at that period . |
| 5 | In all these ways the place was perfectly suited to what Ramsey needed at that moment . |
| 6 | Towards the end of the novel , the narrator records : " What Antoine needed at that time was to find someone capable of proving to him that his past was worthy of being admired , that it contained elements worthy of gratitude and friendship . " |