Example sentences of "[noun pl] [prep] [pers pn] at the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It seems odd , in retrospect , to see governments delegating so passively their most important educational function , but there were two main reasons for it at the time . |
| 2 | I could n't take my eyes off him at the office and five o'clock was such a wrench — all those hours before I would see him again . |
| 3 | They were getting there the cheap way and combining adventure with the bonus of having their cars with them at the end . |
| 4 | Having taken your bags of donated books from you at the church door last year , you may like to know that despite the awful rain this week , Christian Aid Sale funds stood at around £35K by noon today , so the total should be up on that figure . |
| 5 | They must be considered reasonable by the parties to them at the time of entering into the contract and they must also be seen as reasonable from an objective point of view . |
| 6 | ‘ There 's loads of them at the Standard , ’ said Cooper , persuasively , so persuasively in fact , that we ended up at 7.00 am outside Holborn Tube with a banner declaring Flirting for London , handing leaflets to men and flowers to women , so he could get a good photograph for his story . |
| 7 | We wrote columns about it at the time and no two people appear to agree . |
| 8 | Referring to the Rhyl Labour Party campaign to persuade the public to send preprinted ‘ Deeds Not Words ’ postcards to him at the House of Commons , Mr Richards said : ‘ Anybody who thinks that sending postcards and petitions is going to change the price of bread is not living in the real world . ’ |
| 9 | Fresh spring air was quite popular in Walworth after the fogs of winter , but Dolly had her reservations about it at the moment . |
| 10 | There were no messages for him at the desk . |
| 11 | He arrived a few weeks before me at the Elephant and retired just a few weeks before I left the department after the 1987 general election . |
| 12 | Val enjoys her work ; her husband , who is a milkman , is able to tie in his shifts with hers at the hospital so that there is always someone to look after the children . |
| 13 | Evolution is presented as a progression from simple to complex forms with us at the pinnacle of it all as the most complex . |
| 14 | If it 's worth more than a hundred and fifty thousand pounds between you at the moment and you leave it all to your surviving spouse then when he or she dies in due course and if those figures have n't altered they 'll be inheritance tax to pay . |
| 15 | Two sixty , two eighty two hundred and eighty pounds against you at the back and selling for two hundred and eighty pounds two eighty , one one nine . |
| 16 | How are things with you at the District Hospital ? |
| 17 | ‘ Your promises , phone calls to me at the university … |
| 18 | Billy refused to allow this to affect his performances in the Palace goal and he never played better than in his last two League games for us at the end of the 1931–32 season . |
| 19 | Talisker may not be too healthy for the likes of us at the moment , I 'm thinking , ’ Ratagan said . |
| 20 | Well I wo n't be paying for another lot of lessons for you at the drama class David because that 's two weeks in a row you 've been saying you 've not gon na go . |
| 21 | ‘ When I heard you were coming I made some discreet enquiries about you at the newspaper . |
| 22 | When Annie signalled to take the motorway exit just below Kendal , Ellwood had pushed forward a little , leaving only three vehicles between them at the intersection . |
| 23 | If this was true for Stendhal at the beginning of the 19th century , it remains so for increasing numbers of us at the end of the 20th . |
| 24 | ‘ I 'll tell you quite frankly , I would n't know where to put my hands on them at the moment . |
| 25 | In fact sir , the County Council 's figures produced in another appendix , ca n't lay my hands on it at the moment , had put this figure in as three thousand six hundred and fifty , but the nub of those two things are , that over that six month period , we 're not only seeing more houses built but we have more consented , and that has n't affected the residue that appears in the rest of these schedules . |
| 26 | Arrange the right papers for me at the Legation , travelling money and so on and I 'll come the low-risk way by rail . |
| 27 | Conservative Members tend to ignore the dangers for women bus users because there are so few women amongst them at the moment there are no women at all on the Government Benches . |
| 28 | Mr Bush dealt with the older children first and placed a few evacuees with them at the back . |
| 29 | There was a narrow alley with dustbins in it at the bottom of the garden and , beyond that , the rude and unkempt backsides of a row of tenement houses with blind , curtained windows and washing ( long pants , vests , sheets , shirts ) limp in the windless air , strung out on high lines running from pulleys at far-up windows.Tin baths , like giant snails , stuck half-way up the walls as if resting in a trip to the top . |
| 30 | In Carthage an inveterate schism ( Donatism ) originated when a devout and wealthy lady who treasured the relic of a martyr was rebuked for lavishing kisses on it at the commemoration of the faithful departed at the eucharist ; ‘ she went off in a huff |