Example sentences of "[vb -s] [pers pn] at the [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What worries me at the moment about the proposals is that there is discrimination not only against the United Kingdom but against Europe in the way in which the Commission is carrying out the negotiations with the United States . |
| 2 | A university congregates together that type of personality and places it at the disposal of the succeeding generation . |
| 3 | A smith uses a hammer very differently to most tradesmen , never holds it at the bottom of the shaft , for the resulting whip means that power is lost so they always clench the tool near the head . |
| 4 | A sternfaced Sergeant meets me at the entrance to the big house . |
| 5 | I mean we 've still got a barren at the back , somebody kicks you at the back on that barren and er in the skeleton that 's exactly like the barren in a monkey 's tail |
| 6 | The Champ greets me at the door to his mother 's house in Louisville . |
| 7 | One always sees them at the airport in Geneva — they 've got a numbered bank account in Switzerland |
| 8 | This was Il Giasone ( 1649 ) which shows him at the height of his powers in the melodious aria with violin imitations ( e.g. Jason 's ‘ Delizie contente ’ , Act I , SC.2 ) , in drama ( e.g. Medea 's conjuration , Act I , sc . |
| 9 | I went calmly enough , but there must have been a suspicion of the trepidation that inevitably invests us at the sight of a hospital and the thought of entering it . |
| 10 | Yeah , I guess it depends on what titillates you at the end of the day . |
| 11 | 65 ) that the historian 's duty is ‘ to rejudge the conduct of men , that generous actions may be snatched from oblivion , and that the author of pernicious counsels , and the perpetrator of evil deeds may see , beforehand , the infamy that awaits them at the tribunal of posterity ’ . |
| 12 | The vulture selects a rock , picks it up in its beak and , standing about half to one metre away , throws it at the egg with considerable force . |
| 13 | Er , but councillor other remark about the labour party moving towards the conservatives is of course a very fair one , but then surely nothing surprises us at the moment about the labour party . |
| 14 | St. Paul tells them at the outset of his three-chapter discussion on spiritual gifts , that ecstasy is no sure mark of inspiration by the Spirit . |
| 15 | It takes you and deposits you at the edge of a precipice and you can watch helplessly as you dangle and your hopes for survival are sinking into the depths of despair ’ . |
| 16 | As Bromberg tells us at the beginning of her excellent mixture of history of science and politics , ‘ The US government has supported a research programme in fusion energy since 1951 , and in the 30 years through 1980 it has expended more than $2 billion . |
| 17 | He tells us at the beginning of his book that he is an Aristotelean in these matters , but the price he pays is that his definition simply fails to bear upon the intuitive criteria for an explication of consciousness , such as those set out above . |
| 18 | What sublime emotion inspires you at the moment of the assault ? |
| 19 | Breath-taking flight simulation puts you at the joystick from biplane to helicopter . |
| 20 | Therefore he is asking for trouble , and he receives it suddenly and in full measure , above the groundswell of heckling , at the hands of a divinity student who reminds him at the top of his voice about Fedka , a dangerous escaped convict now roaming ‘ our town ’ and originally a serf of Stepan 's whom he sold into military service to pay a gambling debt : |
| 21 | Easy Over 's victory at Garthorpe puts him at the head of the area Young Horse title , and Shedid has increased her lead in the mares ' championship . |
| 22 | The drifting phase of its life puts it at the mercy of all kinds of hungry animals , from other stationary filter-feeders to fish , so in order that its species shall survive , a mollusc must produce great numbers of eggs . |
| 23 | But even the refusal to talk about it , as Michel Foucault has noted , marks it as the secret and puts it at the heart of discourse . |
| 24 | a specially coded hyphen which is only displayed when formatting of the hyphenated word puts it at the end of a line . |
| 25 | So I says only on one condition if your daddy pi leaves you at the door at school and picks you up |