Example sentences of "[pers pn] [adv] at the [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The operation of these laws being impervious to our preferences , men will challenge them only at the risk of failure . |
| 2 | A member of the local parish community will collect your son/daughter from home , bring him/her to SPRED then bring him/her home at the end of the session . |
| 3 | I have been encouraged to find that the young are not so predisposed to put me aside at the age of seventy and that a new generation of students and artists regard me as something of a cult figure . |
| 4 | Er , I am mindful chairman that I embarrassed you acutely at the end of education meeting on Friday , erm , and I know that I , I have a circumstance coming up in February , where I have a child who is unexpectedly on a training day , erm , on a day where I actually have two meetings of this council , now either I get substituted , or we arrange for a one off carer situation . |
| 5 | This should put you right at the top of the list of Martin 's favourite people . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ I 'm surprised Mr Lawler let you away at the end of your shift , ’ Maggie said . |
| 7 | ‘ Are you quite at the end of your resources , that you can not provide a meal of fish , or eggs or cheese ? |
| 8 | Buckley 's Grimsby Town have won five and drawn one of their last six to ease within sight of the famous names at the top — and nothing would give him greater satisfaction than to leave them behind at the end of the season . |
| 9 | It was probably a very good thing in far more ways than one , Harry reflected , that Aubrey would be living with them here at the farm for several months . |
| 10 | This , as argued here before , is the one question capable of splitting the Tory Party , at least to the extent of creating factions with a passionate attachment to their prejudices , and no great reluctance to insist on them even at the cost of deep party division . |
| 11 | He wrote round to fifteen builders on 22nd March and , with what today would be regarded as incredible naïveté , asked them to meet him together at the Office of Works on 24th March . |
| 12 | Actually , she opened with Mozart 's scena Misera , dove son which tested her somewhat at the top of the stave , but there followed arias from Manon , Don Pasquale and La Forza del Destino which she gave with commanding conviction , variety and characterisation . |
| 13 | Mr. Rifkind did not reply to my letter although I addressed it to him personally at the House of Commons … |
| 14 | And the exhibition would be important , she told herself , when a flow of desire swept her away at the thought of being with Lucy , time allotted to their togetherness . |
| 15 | Instead of flitting from one employer to another he remained constant in Richard 's service and was with him still at the end at Chalus . |
| 16 | I saw him once at the beginning of this month . |
| 17 | Once when he was at school camp , Shanti and I went to fetch him home at the end of the camp weekend . |
| 18 | Frank Howard , defending , said Millman had been drinking to celebrate his birthday and expected his girlfriend to drive him home at the end of the night . |
| 19 | Once in her suite of rooms she sat down at a little Louis Quinze escritoire , its pale grey panels painted with carnations and pinks , and wrote a short letter to her faithless lover , asking him to call on her urgently at the embassy at eleven the next morning . |
| 20 | ‘ But she has loved someone else and her thoughts are always in the past ; and her consciousness seems to bother her even at the thought of a possible new love . ’ |
| 21 | I said that I thought it would be alright and made arrangements to meet him again at the church on the following Saturday afternoon to discuss details . |
| 22 | In the decade since Mr McGuinness professed to have turned his back on the IRA and to have become a Sinn Fein politician , more than 40 witnesses and statements placed him firmly at the scene of violent incidents — and at the heart of the IRA 's decision-making process . |
| 23 | Was it right at the end of a distinguished public servant 's long career to reduce him to such misery ? |
| 24 | It might seem long-winded , but dependent upon er if you get it right at the start with it , it might mean that one of the things we 're suggesting er you might say no , it 's not for me this , but you might think that job analysis is a good way of identifying training . |
| 25 | The Viscount nodded , although he had scarcely heard what was said , registering it somewhere at the back of his mind . |
| 26 | He then only needed a pitching-wedge and he hit it straight at the pin to about 18 feet or so . |
| 27 | She took a white lace handkerchief out of her bag and dabbed a corner of it carefully at the corner of her eyes before the make-up ran . |
| 28 | Benny Polymer , the Titford manager , made it plain at the start of the season that promotion was his goal . |
| 29 | He was a small man and it looked as if his rifle was much too heavy for him as he waved it threateningly at the crowd inside the camp . |
| 30 | There is something in you that loves the wild , the primitive ; you will pursue it even at the cost of what you cherish . |