Example sentences of "[prep] [art] [noun] [vb past] [pers pn] at " in BNC.
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| 1 | Has all the nonsense off the field distracted you at all , made your h job harder ? |
| 2 | One of the lads asked me at a dance how I had earned my living before I had got married . |
| 3 | Recent estimates of the size of the slick put it at 2.5m-3m barrels of oil , not the 7m-barrel monster that had been feared . |
| 4 | The song of a nightingale greeted us at the entrance to Hotel Glade . |
| 5 | They looked intently at him , then at each other , then executed a smart about-face ; the scullion with the loaf threw it at the other , who caught it and started to hit the other minion over the head with it as they ran back into the mist the way they had come , their figures — one crouched almost double , one striking out with the loaf of bread — and their running footsteps quickly absorbed by the rolling mists . |
| 6 | Current predictions for the cost of generating electricity with the Super-Phenix put it at about the same as coal but twice as expensive as a conventional reactor . |
| 7 | The familiar stress on the first word in the sentence took her at once into the stuffy room in south London . |
| 8 | The gentleman here in the front had it at twenty four . |
| 9 | It is recorded somewhat ruefully that , after years of struggle , when the Veterinarian had won its fight to get the course lengthened , students who had previously been apprenticed for three or four years to a practitioner claimed they at least ought to be able to leave the College after 12 months , and not have to stay the same period — two years — as the non-apprenticed . |