Example sentences of "[conj] [adv] [verb] [pers pn] at [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | People might consider destroying their credit cards or just leaving them at home . ’ |
| 2 | He glared across the breakfast table at them , quenching the morning cheerfulness in the kitchen , and fiercely examined them at tea-time as if to see what the day had done to them . |
| 3 | She shot her arm out and tried to grab it from him , but his fingers closed firmly around her wrist and easily held her at bay . |
| 4 | I track him down to the University of Saskatchewan and just catch him at home before he leaves for work . |
| 5 | He accepted my apologies for my appearance and quickly put me at ease , saying he had been a close friend of my father and was delighted to meet his son . |
| 6 | Eileen herself is very friendly and down-to-earth and quickly puts me at ease . |
| 7 | Look out for the huge holes in the trees made of black woodpeckers and with luck you will see the culprit and even hear it at work . |
| 8 | Or did you imagine I did nothing else all day but case joints and then rob them at night ? ’ |
| 9 | Not content with beating seven bells out of the test team at Lords The Aussies took on the Combined Universities in a three day game today and almost strangled it at birth . |
| 10 | If Philip Leapor had earlier been hostile to his daughter 's poetry fearing it was unprofitable but then left her at liberty , it was probably because she had convinced him that she could earn money with her pen . |