Example sentences of "[adv] [pron] [vb past] [pers pn] at the " in BNC.

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1 Individuals were given the opportunity to achieve much for themselves but too often they did it at the expense of others .
2 The Pollexton dynasty had finished by 1747 , and from then on various relations spurned Mothecome until eventually they sold it at the end of the eighteenth century to a Mildmay forbear .
3 Well I saw them at the , er round the corner at Mount Man Road , on that estate
4 Well somebody built them at the boat builders in Orkney built some .
5 Well they took her at the there was a I was gon na give one .
6 They had their valets with them and they were here they would been maybe I saw them at the time .
7 She indicated the pretty flower-patterned basin for me to wash my hands in , then I joined them at the table .
8 ‘ I started a similar scheme in Wellington , but then I did it at the same hour on the same day every week .
9 Yes , that 's how I perceived it at the time , but I was wrong .
10 That 's how we covered it at the N E C.
11 So I just stood there while they shouted " Jolly hockey sticks , " across as her , and then Kevin started them off singing , " How green you are , how green you are , how green you are , how green … , " ever so softly , to the tune of " Auld Lang Syne " till her bus came , and then they sang it at the tops of their voices as she staggered onto the bus and moved down to the back seat .
12 No , I du n no why I said it at the dinner table yesterday really that was silly of me really .
13 Just beyond Fort Augustus a trace of their road may still be found ; now impassable , it must have been a fearful route : the climb up to any height of it is ferociously demanding — or else I hit it at the wrong spot .
14 I expect that 's what he thought he was going to when you grabbed him at the end of the war .
15 Course , I 'ad to 'ang about a bit until I saw yer go out , and afterwards I met 'im at the Elephant an' Castle .
16 Actually I saw you at the Central Conference last month . ’
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