Example sentences of "[subord] [adv] [verb] at the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At meetings of Bank Assistants throughout the country , in the past weeks , I have not met anyone who was other than bitterly disillusioned at the outcome of our visit to the Labour Court . |
| 2 | Er and therefore it looks at erm the indirect impact of development erm and it 's it 's more sophisticated one might say than merely looking at the quality of the land . |
| 3 | Although not discussed at the Forum meeting , and since the local authority directors are nominated on an agreed two year cycle , it is assumed that there is no opposition to Councillors , and being appointed to complete their second year . |
| 4 | Er , it is important too , to stress that the Agency is acting as a bridge between the purchasing er , authority , the Social Services Department , and the er , independent sector , and that er , it 's also important that er , too , that er , in many cases , er , the provider 's income er , will , will not just come from Social Services , but it may be that people are purchasing their own care , if , if they 're not eligible for public , public 's er , help through , through funding , and therefore the scheme is much wider than just looking at the purchasing intentions of the , the Social Services Department . |
| 5 | My daughter , although clearly distressed at the tragedy , preferred to stay at home with the children . |
| 6 | A statement such as ‘ That makes me feel very angry/unhappy/sad/upset when you do that ’ rather than immediately shouting at the child enables parents to stand back from their immediate emotional reactions and also teach the child awareness of other people 's feelings . |
| 7 | Hardly surprising , since one of the main components of that radicalism was opposition to the Vietnam war , and although nominally defeated at the party conference in 1967 , Wilson 's basically pro-US stand defined the party 's position in the eyes of many young radicals . |
| 8 | I 'm sorry Mr , I think we have to press you on this , can I can I take it from what you have said We have to press you because for the reasons we explained on Friday morning , we have to go through the sector sites , if only to find at the end it can not be done . |
| 9 | On two occasions he joined large dinner parties designed to raise money for particular charities and I witnessed him reduced to slumping over the table on folded arms , where he remained comatose until gently removed at the end of the meal . |
| 10 | Here the failure may occur despite the fact that the episode in question has been adequately stored and is potentially retrievable ( if actually asked at the time the drivers could have probably correctly retrieved the information that they were uninsured / driving on full beam / on the wrong route ) , the problem is instead that the driver fails to use the knowledge available at the correct time . |
| 11 | Unless specifically agreed at the time of making your booking , we can not accept any reservation which is made conditional upon a Special Request being satisfied . |
| 12 | You know how some sports cars manage to look like they are doing about a hundred miles while still parked at the kerb ? |
| 13 | It enabled Eliot to look not to the detested Unitarianism of his family , but towards a deeper , wider , yet also more personal ‘ rhythm ’ present , though scarcely recognized at the time . |
| 14 | 5 In 1919 , the year after O'Keeffe and Stieglitz began living together in New York , Stieglitz wrote a brief essay , ‘ Woman in Art ’ , in which he restated his belief in the sexual dimensions of O'Keeffe 's imagery and which , though not published at the time , he apparently circulated among the members of his circle . |
| 15 | She forgot to call the apartment again , and decided by two in the morning that she might as well stay at the clinic for what was left of the night . |
| 16 | ‘ We may as well start at the top , then . ’ |
| 17 | Finally deciding it was not only pointless , but spineless as well to stand at the door waiting for a man who would n't come , she went up to bed , and surprisingly she fell asleep almost at once , only to be woken some hours later by a violent storm . |
| 18 | ‘ Come on , ’ he said , ‘ we might as well call at the cab-rank , before we go to the mortuary . |
| 19 | Effective history teaching may also require that pupils spend as much time away from the screen , discussing , hypothesising and analysing their findings , as actually working at the keyboard . |