Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] at [art] [adj -er] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Luckily I lived at the higher end of the village so my house was not affected . |
| 2 | She said : " I felt at an earlier stage there were enough moderate Africans who could have taken their place alongside whites in government and there would have been much more evolution towards African leadership than the revolution that came about in the end . |
| 3 | She peered at the smaller typewriter 's message : |
| 4 | If you look at the lower edge of a cloth dress or skirt , it frequently has a sloping hemline . |
| 5 | Er and we are talking about open countryside outside erm rural settlements and if you look at the wider countryside and that includes in my judgement er the pattern of settlement which is where most people actually do live in in the countryside . |
| 6 | The funny thing is that er if you look at the better dividend funds in the year of the crash , the dividends actually went up , cos dividend yields from companies were good in that year , so people would n't have lost out , their income would have been quite stable . |
| 7 | Have you written it totally from a Jewish perspective or are you aiming at a wider cross-section of the population ? |
| 8 | Jessamy allowed her voice to become deliberately sympathetic as she looked at the older woman . |
| 9 | She glared at the older man , her grey eyes gleaming with determination , and saw him smile . |
| 10 | You said at an earlier stage in this conversation erm that it 's always the defeated parties who are blamed for starting wars . |
| 11 | On the other hand , if we look at a later decision-making episode in the same project when the pupils are temporarily in role as Indians who have to decide whether or not to receive a white stranger into their midst ( p. 53 ) , this is more likely to have been played seriously as a real game for by then the children , after several lessons on the same project , were steeped in the material sufficiently deeply to respect the rich complexity of the problem . |
| 12 | Agencies ' reports will thus provide information on both the financial and operational performance of the activities they cover at an earlier stage than is possible in departmental reports . |
| 13 | And that means they arrive at a slower rate ! ’ |
| 14 | It is hard to imagine him coming at a better time as we plan to make our first Diocesan Assembly the centrepiece of his visit , on Saturday 10th June . |
| 15 | Surely someone moving toward the light ought to measure it traveling at a higher speed than someone moving in the same direction as the light ; yet the experiment showed that both observers would measure exactly the same speed . |
| 16 | ‘ Pardon ? ’ as he peered at the smaller hump . |
| 17 | There is an alternative route which is longer and involves slightly more climbing , but it stays at a lower level , never rising higher than 1,600ft . |
| 18 | Listen to a car passing on the road : as the car is approaching , its engine sounds at a higher pitch ( corresponding to a higher frequency of sound waves ) , and when it passes and goes away , it sounds at a lower pitch . |
| 19 | He glanced at the older man striding so purposefully beside him . |
| 20 | If the glider is trimmed for a normal cruising speed , because of the longitudinal stability it will require a forward movement and pressure on the stick to keep it diving at a higher speed . |
| 21 | Ultimately , of course , whether a cause is held to be direct or indirect is a statement about the state of scientific knowledge at the time ; while one variable may provide an illuminating explanation for a puzzle at one point in time , it is likely to provoke further questions about how it operates at a later date . |
| 22 | Unlike offices , the level of income fluctuates although sometimes over a longer period it fluctuates at a higher level than commercial . |
| 23 | Some firms are very flexible on this issue and where possible , allow them to relocate at a later date . |
| 24 | He can not claim on the one hand to be at the heart of Europe and at the same time want to be on the periphery of Europe and seem to want us to go at a slower speed than anyone else . |
| 25 | Firstly , let us look at the wider influence of the Chicago School . |