Example sentences of "[pers pn] [adv] at [art] [noun] [unc] " in BNC.

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1 ‘ So as they can whip them off at a moment 's notice ! ’ he hissed .
2 ‘ I should be taking you on at a week 's notice .
3 The late and sadly missed Roy Kinnear and Kenneth Williams would always help you out at a moment 's notice , and not only that , they 'd come up with a great performance .
4 One was the passage from the fifteenth chapter of Genesis in which Abraham cut up a heifer , a goat and a ram and laid them out at the Lord 's command , driving the vultures away , falling at last into a deep sleep with ‘ a horror of great darkness ’ .
5 If I was to give my life to this orchestra then I could not allow that someone throw me out at a moment 's notice .
6 In one lightning movement the two fishermen picked up two pails of stinking fish heads and flung them lovingly at the Lionisers ' feet .
7 As Bernice watched , horrified , Bishop produced a large handgun from beneath his robes and aimed it squarely at the Doctor 's head .
8 We happened to pass a woman pushing a pram , who for some reason produced a torch , no doubt in order to locate something , and directed it straight at the baby 's face .
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