Example sentences of "[subord] [pers pn] [verb] [pers pn] at [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As for his invitation — if I catch you at 1997 with him or any other man , I 'll revoke my decision about the wedding night , and take you to bed immediately ! ’ |
| 2 | If I snatch your hat from your head with intent to steal it , that is conversion as well as trespass , but if I throw it at another person , that is trespass only , for I am not questioning your title to it . |
| 3 | I make my living out of explaining things to a lot of dum-dums , and if I do it at all I expect to get paid . ’ |
| 4 | If I do it at half the speed , just do it at thirty miles an hour , how long will that take ? |
| 5 | If I do it at half the speed . |
| 6 | Now if I do it at half that speed , if I do if I drive at thirty miles an hour , how long will it take me to do the sixty miles ? |
| 7 | You 're lucky if you survive them at all . ’ |
| 8 | So even now if you wake me at three o'clock in the morning and sing me one bar of Der Rosenkavalier I will be able to carry on from where you start ! |
| 9 | There 's no more dangerous animal in the jungle if you surprise him at close quarters . " |
| 10 | See which one you like the best or if you like them at all . |
| 11 | because if you force them at all , it does n't work . |
| 12 | You will have realized , for example , that if you crunch your car into your neighbour 's gatepost at 20 miles an hour you will do much more damage than if you nudge it at 10 . |
| 13 | Beforehand they were tense and quiet , and no doubt very frightened if the truth were known , but on their return , if we saw them at all , they would be relaxed and only looking forward to bacon and eggs in the Mess — and then bed . |
| 14 | In ordinary politics , however , we must treat integrity as an independent ideal if we accept it at all , because it can conflict with these other ideals . |
| 15 | We do n't see as much of you as we 'd like to ( if we see you at all ) . |
| 16 | Wayne never found his rhythm on his serve and he did not get into the match until he broke me at 5–3 , but I did good enough to win , ’ said the 24-year-old 1991 Wimbledon champion . |
| 17 | To hell with it , I 'll go down fighting , it will break me on my terms if it breaks me at all . |
| 18 | So , from the dominant parliamentary perspective the Left takes the British constitution for granted as a good thing , and from the insurrectionary perspective the Left sees the British constitution ( if it sees it at all ) as beyond the pale of reasoned consideration and change . |
| 19 | He said , ‘ If it reassures you at all , I 'm not Drugs Squad and I 'm not Special Branch . |
| 20 | Although he may not agree with what I have said , and what I am about to say , he should at least extend to all of us the courtesy of sitting quietly in his seat , especially if he joins us at such a late time . |
| 21 | If he moves it at all — the elbow , that is — it wo n't set properly , and he 'll be no good at football , ever . |
| 22 | However , because I knew her at close quarters only during her maiden years and have not seen her once since she went to the West Country to become ‘ Mrs Benn ’ , you will perhaps excuse my impropriety in referring to her as I knew her , and in my mind have continued to call her throughout these years . |
| 23 | My eye followed the light cloud of her smoke , now here , now there , above the plain , according to the devious curves of the stream , but always fainter and farther away , till I lost it at last behind the mitre-shaped hill of the great pagoda ( 6 ) . |
| 24 | Other sentences have a similar type of structure , and tend to end in a similar evocation of vastness and remoteness , as the eye reaches its limit of vision : " under the enormous dome of the sky " ; " the monotonous sweep of the horizon " ; " as if the impassive earth had swallowed her up without an effort , without a tremor " ; " till I lost it at last behind the mitre-shaped hill of the great pagoda " . |
| 25 | Consequently the women get it in preference to the men , because they take it at lower rates " . |
| 26 | But even then , before I knew her at all , I sensed that normality was not really Karen 's thing . |
| 27 | Or whether you saw it at all . |
| 28 | I think on balance I mi I my advice is that we do nothing , just wait and see if whether he contacts you at all . |
| 29 | It ran : ‘ Well , frankly , the problem as I see it at this moment in time is whether I should just lie down under all this hassle … |
| 30 | It ran : ‘ Well , frankly , the problem as I see it at this moment in time is whether I should just lie down under all this hassle … |