Example sentences of "[pers pn] [adv] at [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You will make a report to me daily at the first hour of night . |
| 2 | Quite suddenly he let go and sort of pushed me away at the same time . |
| 3 | ‘ Emilia , dearest , do you imagine I could abandon you now at the very moment I have longed for ? |
| 4 | To our disbelief it was really very much more abundant than we could ever have thought possible , so we 've actually been able to find molecules with eleven carbon atoms in a chain , floating around in space , and for which we really at the present time have no explanation . |
| 5 | ‘ WHY OH WHY DID THEY TRY TO CHANGE THE WORLD BY REPEATEDLY CONTRADICTING THEMSELVES ( AND WERE WE REALLY AT THE SAME GIG ? ) |
| 6 | Please do not hesitate to contact me here at the above number if you have any other queries or concerns . |
| 7 | He told her so at the very end . |
| 8 | He nearly rang Fred up , but he would be seeing him tomorrow at the first night . |
| 9 | In 1979 he voted for Margaret Thatcher , backing her again at the last election after a switch to the SDP in 1983 . |
| 10 | Self-delusion could easily once again cloud the judgment of the shadow cabinet and Labour could go it alone at the next election , perhaps with the same misplaced confidence in a ‘ safety first ’ stance that will deliver success if the dangers inherent in new initiatives are avoided and new ideas anathemised . |
| 11 | Exploiting the glueyness of spider silk , a hummingbird will prod it repeatedly at a selected spot until at last it sticks . |
| 12 | When they reached the prison , at Riom , and an official tried to argue that they had no authority to remove the canisters , Jacques Allier took out a pistol and levelled it wordlessly at the bureaucratic face . |
| 13 | Sabine pinned on a polite smile , and aimed it straight at the oncoming vehicle 's windscreen . |
| 14 | He said it straight at the senior officer , who looked for a moment as if someone had cracked a whip in his face . |
| 15 | Instinctively anxious for its welfare ( he had not needed Jack 's admonition ) he drove it carefully at a modest pace , resisting the temptation to press hard upon the accelerator . |
| 16 | Chesarynth gripped it convulsively at the strange sight of people milling around . |
| 17 | They have fired this interest by spending £44m on the issue , aiming it primarily at the retail investor when one might expect an issue of this sort to be more suitable for institutions . |
| 18 | I would have liked to have heard it again at the second service but Dad made us hurry home . |
| 19 | It still ran away from him but he grabbed it again at the second attempt before it went over the line and the chance had gone . |
| 20 | It is far easier to buy some extra flowers or to pick an additional bunch from your garden , than to explain to someone that you would like to take some of your gift home with you in order to give it back to them again at a later date ! |
| 21 | We met Audrey and Margaret on the way , and we saw them again at the next stop , Motueka , 60 miles to the north . |