Example sentences of "[subord] [pron] [verb] at the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Enabling self-expression allows counsellees to explain to us where they stand at the present time . |
| 2 | An ill man , he returned to his brother James 's farm , where he died at the early age of forty-seven , 19 October 1799 . |
| 3 | He had no Scots upbringing either , since in 1924 his family moved to south Yorkshire , where he studied at the local elementary school and at Wath-on-Dearne Grammar School , before entering Magdalene College , Cambridge , in 1939 . |
| 4 | Achieving a personal style became his ultimate photographic ambition , and under the influence of Josef Herman , a Polish photographer who spent many years in Wales documenting the lives of the coal miners , he paid his first visit to The National Gallery , where he gazed at the Old Masters and eventually formed what he called ‘ a concept of total image ’ . |
| 5 | His argument is that the density wave is of a different kind , the so called long wave mode , which propagates from the centre of the Galaxy outward , such a wave pattern rotates much more rapidly than the short wave mode and it just happens that , if this picture is correct , our Solar System is almost exactly at the place in our Galaxy where it orbits at the same speed as the wave ( Astrophysics and Space Science , vol 89 , p 61 ) . |
| 6 | Of course I admit there 's an alcohol problem , but then again it tends to look worse than it is because the res is dry so everyone congregates at the nearest bar , which is two miles south , in Nebraska . |
| 7 | I 'm in bed reading , so I look at the little security system we have , look at the screen — I do n't know this chap , he 's obviously drunk , and obviously ex-public school . |
| 8 | Theda could barely repress a sigh of relief , although she wondered at the strange way the woman spoke . |
| 9 | ‘ But the demand is coming from the young so we look at the educational side to cut that demand . ’ |
| 10 | Alright but in any double logged mode , right , the coefficients you estimate are elasticities , so we look at the incoming elasticity , we get a measure , or we get an estimate point six eight , right , that 's a positive as we would expect suggesting that er erm textiles are a normal good , right . |
| 11 | He did really well as a novice a year ago in some top class races in Ireland and , although he fell at the seventh in last year 's Gold Cup , he should be a more mature horse and a better jumper this season . |
| 12 | Well if I left at the same time as you he mi he might feel obliged to offer me a lift but if he did |
| 13 | So how about if I look at the six monthly saving , |
| 14 | ‘ If I play at the Royal Albert Hall , there may be 3,000 people there , but it 's still one-to-one because that 's the way I operate . |
| 15 | She walks from her flat at the wrong end of Ladbroke Grove , along the Harrow Road , under various stretches of motorway , past the Metropole Hotel where she calls in to buy herself a drink in the Cosmo-Cocktail Bar ( she is perversely fond of the Metropole Hotel ) , and then through various increasingly handsome although gloomy back streets , until she arrives at the arranged corner . |
| 16 | I had thought that if you were not following with a score to marvel at Rattle 's ability to achieve those dynamics so accurately , you would probably feel alienated until you arrived at the next big moment . |
| 17 | If she fails at the substantive hearing , that will be because the court will then have decided that it would not be in [ J. 's ] best interest for his life to be artificially saved or prolonged . |
| 18 | If you remember at the last two sessions we 've talked about signs and symbols . |
| 19 | Er , yes , this is a follow up erm , if you remember at the last full council meeting , we recorded er proceedings for the er British Corpus , is it , Town Clerk ? |
| 20 | If you retire at the normal minimum retirement age , which for most civil servants is 60 , you will get an annual pension and a lump sum . |
| 21 | If you tack at the right time , when the wind slightly changes in direction , large amounts of ground can be made over those who are oblivious to the shift . |
| 22 | If you go at the six o'clock showing , Monday to Friday it 's two pound ten pence for you . |
| 23 | But , if you go at the six o'clock showing here it 's two pound ten pence for you . |
| 24 | Now the curious thing was that if you looked at the early atmosphere , the molecules in that were the molecules that we expected to see in interstellar space . |
| 25 | But we do n't find , if you like at the top end of the corporate finance market , that they are yet as significant a competitor as are er rivals among the leading firms . |
| 26 | See some different characteristics and a supersonic and so that then , so the elevator and control services because at supersonic speeds , if you moved at the same distance , at six hundred mile an hour the elevator went like that , so that sort of |
| 27 | to write to the Health and Safety Executive asking for a report on their findings of their investigation into the causes of the explosion , and erm after several letters , if you recall at the last meeting I was asked to write to MPs and so forth . |
| 28 | If you 're in any doubt about it , do n't — you 'll do less harm if you leave it than if you prune at the wrong time . |
| 29 | If you look at the net debt in greater detail it is still the difference between erm substantial gross debt and substantial amounts of cash , each of which have gone up somewhat during the year . |
| 30 | Government grant is distributed through a mechanism which is now called the standard spending assessment , an awful word , or phrase , but it is absolutely vital , and if you look at the standard spending assessment given to this county the government is saying we ought to be able to provide all the services for a total cost of eight hundred and seventy nine pounds per charge payer . |