Example sentences of "[pers pn] [adv] [vb -s] at [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Something in me still revolts at an outright demand : it draws me into explanations of the connection between money and work . |
| 2 | Phyllis is very particular about cleanliness , which is why she always shops at the new branch of Safeways . |
| 3 | She now teaches at a local girls ' school where she finds the all-female staff ‘ extremely supportive of each other ’ . |
| 4 | It eventually arrives at a short recapitulation of the initial music which , in its turn , breaks into a closing ‘ burst ’ of music which does sound like late eighteenth-century wind music , but which is actually a stylistic pastiche . |
| 5 | Learning handwriting with the non-dominant hand is difficult , so it usually comes at a late stage of recovery . |
| 6 | I mean , you know , whenever have you ever known someone to get constipated from Chinese , you know , but it always happens at the Indian , always , always ! |
| 7 | Incidentally , one of the curious phenomena of my library is that when you take out Bleddyn 's autobiography from the shelves it automatically opens at the very page mentioned above . |
| 8 | It also looks at the potential profits which British Aerospace may be able to make by selling redundant sites in Llanelli , Bathgate in Glasgow and the Cowley plant in Oxford which is due to close in the 1990s . |
| 9 | If Eliot seeks to draw on the power of an ancient ritual , he also aims at the horrifying frisson obtained by re-enacting the ritual with the opposite of its traditional meaning . |
| 10 | My father provided Maurice with a capital sum and leased him the property he now occupies at a nominal rental . ’ |
| 11 | In fact , it is so proud that it now boasts at a European level of the cheap U K labour costs and the lack of workers ' rights . |
| 12 | Erm there 's a sense in which y'know kind of when I go to concerts erm there 's y'know kind of there 's loads of blokes who take their shirts off and er wrestle around together and build human pyramids and do all that kind of , lots of body contact , lots of grasping one-another and all that kind of thing and yet erm y'know presumably to them , on the assumption that they 're heterosexual , as I assume probably they are , it 's it 's one of these things that erm y'know is kind of again maybe it even occurs at the same time as they 're quite homophobic in some cases . |
| 13 | There is a growing belief that payment by results schemes or reward linked to achievement of goals is an unleashing factor and it certainly appears at the present time to be working that way . |
| 14 | It therefore boils at a higher temperature . |