Example sentences of "[pers pn] at the [adj] [noun sg] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | I see now we 've got lots to do this morning , you 're going to need to ignore what 's going on behind me , ah , it 's not happening , right , as I said to you at the very beginning of September I 'm the star , so you pay attention to me . |
| 2 | ‘ Hi , Dodgy Windows Inc here , we 've got this great special offer just for you at the reduced rate of only … |
| 3 | Again this was reported to you at the last meeting of this Committee . |
| 4 | Various witnesses , including shoppers and tramdrivers , gave varying accounts of witnessing Drew or somebody like him at the appropriate time of the murder . |
| 5 | Tuan Ti Fo turned , looking about him at the simple order of his room . |
| 6 | He turned away , looking round him at the great nest of screens and machinery . |
| 7 | Looking about him at the great press of people , the escalator that was a river of people flowing on and on , the crowds that streamed down the stairs so that if a train was held up there would be room for no more to squeeze on to the platform , he wondered why a terrorist group had never thought of putting a bomb in the tube . |
| 8 | Harry looked about him at the comfortable disorder of the place , which was not at all like the spick and span home Ann had made for him . |
| 9 | It was back in England for ( Sir ) Alexander Korda [ q.v. ] in 1933 that Laughton made his screen name in The Private Life of Henry VIII at the start of a sequence of major cinema biographies ( The Barretts of Wimpole Street ( 1934 ) , Mutiny on the Bounty ( 1935 ) , Rembrandt ( 1936 ) , and the unfinished I Claudius ( 1936 ) ) , which were to see him at the very peak of his reflective , anguished talent for larger-than-life monsters of reality . |
| 10 | ALAN Healsey 's wife meets him at the back door of their home every night with a dressing gown . |
| 11 | Tommy winked at Rose , then left Charlie to join her at the far end of the bar . |
| 12 | For the remaining weeks , you pay her at the lower rate of £44.50 a week . |
| 13 | It is her ambition to be tried for her life for murdering a small tobacconist with a meat-cleaver , only to be dramatically cleared when her alibi is established by the bishop who was confirming her at the very moment of the crime . |
| 14 | As Tomsky put it at the Fifth Congress of Trade Unions on 2 October 1922 : ‘ Without the strengthening and support of transport there can be no construction of socialism . ’ |
| 15 | Swales might , at last , have made a wise decision — if he does not go back on it at the first sign of failure . |
| 16 | ‘ He gets us into this mess , then legs it at the first sniff of trouble ! ’ |
| 17 | He proved how difficult this feat is by failing to repeat it at the second time of asking . |
| 18 | is it at the top end of the , it starts at the top end of the slope ? |
| 19 | A key objective since Tencel was launched has been to position it at the top end of the market , working with the best mills , converters and manufacturers and attracting a premium price for the fibre . |
| 20 | He also fitted it at the top end of the door . |
| 21 | Even if I did n't have a job that keeps me at the other end of the country for most of the year , this sort of place could n't provide a living . |
| 22 | He said : ’ there is no statistical evidence that is known to me at the present time of people who are actually being discharged from the private sector We do not have evidence to bring to you of a substantial number of people who have been discharged against their will from the private sector . ’ |
| 23 | ‘ I was so afraid you would be hurt , then I found myself wondering if I could trust David or whether he would walk out on me at the first sign of trouble . ’ |
| 24 | My mother grabbed me at the very edge of the roof , just before I toppled the two storeys to the street . |
| 25 | Yes it 's been understood that it was a routing thing to put them at the right side of Southwell to drive through the middle of it . |
| 26 | Katheryn Murphy ( Kelly McGillis ) , who is assigned to the case , is clearly marked out as one of the boys to begin with : her brusque manner , her determination always to win ( which leads to her plea-bargaining behind Sarah 's back to ensure a conviction of the rapists , but on a lesser charge ) and her interaction with the men from her office — discussing the case with them at the male territory of a sports match |
| 27 | It 's generally the other way round ; lass ; it 's them at the other end of the Feltons ' fists who generally land up here . |
| 28 | You 'll find them at the very end of , of chapter twenty eight . |
| 29 | On March 3 the Palestinian delegation expanded on the self-government proposal placed on the table by them at the third round of talks held in Washington in January [ see p. 38740 ] . |
| 30 | They joined us at the far end of the church , Benjamin shouting at the Santerres to stand back . |