Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] at [adv] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The government clearly counts on the pleasure and prestige the jobs afford to keep them filled at fairly low cost , but this wo n't help if the best scholars are constantly tempted to go abroad ’ , says Kauffmann , ‘ and now , new appointments or those who change jobs by moving or by promotion no longer have the same job security ’ . |
| 2 | Taking over as she did at very short notice when our last Treasurer became ill , she has always managed to administer the Society 's finances in an extremely capable way despite the fact that the last six years has been a period of considerable change and economic difficulty . |
| 3 | They arrived at ever decreasing intervals , always the same pale bewildered collection of strangers , always with new and astonishing stories of battle and the day-dream world . |
| 4 | He may end up with as many as sixty youngsters from several different broods which , because they hatched at slightly different times , are of several different sizes . |
| 5 | The invitation to appear on it came at very short notice , and even though she 's no longer modelling except at charity functions , she feels a need to keep in the public eye , so she did n't want to turn it down , but she insisted that Florian and I should keep to our plans . ’ |