Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] [pron] at " in BNC.
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| 31 | Indirect Rule and the evolution of the Commonwealth idea had disarmed much left-wing criticism of the empire in the years between the wars and encouraged the development among British radicals of ‘ responsible ’ views on imperial subjects , which came naturally to bloom when Labour found itself at last in office . |
| 32 | It was a great pleasure to meet you at the Conference in Lisbon and to talk about your proposal for an introduction to CALL . |
| 33 | It is always a pleasure to meet you at Link meetings and other events . |
| 34 | It was a pleasure to meet you at the Scottish Taxi Federation exhibition at Riccarton last week . |
| 35 | Be warned though , it does n't work on all PC speakers — there are one or two in the office that emit a sound of some sort , but so quietly that you need a hearing aid to catch anything at all . |
| 36 | Some of the defenders of the domestic load , such as Dennis Bellamy ( chairman of the Yorkshire Board ) , occasionally quoted cost and load data to justify their views , but these were based on such a biased sample of observations that it was difficult for any serious enquirer to accept them at face value . |
| 37 | It 's Wright 's ambition to establish himself at Newcastle but if the future , in terms of first team football , looks bleak he will have to consider the Forest interest . |
| 38 | With a spreadsheet you can alter values , constants or the formulae relating them at will and the entire sheet will reflect these changes , instantly . |
| 39 | He said , ‘ Yes , I wanted you lads to catch them at it and arrest them ’ . ’ |
| 40 | The technology was introduced in the US in the 1970s , replacing toxic SO2 , and Norway 's Norsk Hydro installed it at is Porsgrunn magnesium plant in 1978 . |
| 41 | At first the books came one at a time . |
| 42 | ‘ David played it at a soundcheck and when I asked him if it was about Shaun he just smiled and then denied it . |
| 43 | Despite a turnover of plants in the 1960s and early 1970s , employment was maintained until the mid-1970s when a CDP study estimated it at about 4800 of whom 50% were women . |
| 44 | NICK FALDO stirred himself at last in the Masters at Augusta National yesterday when a third round of 68 made him five under par for the tournament before a storm caused a three-hour delay that had a disastrous effect on defending champion Ian Woosnam , who had been sharing the lead with Craig Parry . |
| 45 | It was a good system for everyone except the artist , who was frequently offered a low rate for the job , then had his payment deferred , and sometimes had to battle for months to receive anything at all . |
| 46 | Joan Allen was 74 years old when her son asked her general practitioner to visit her at home . |
| 47 | The Russian poet mistakes him at first for a brigand of the woods , a political conspirator , or a charlatan trading in elixirs and arsenic . |
| 48 | The examination papers written in Victoria 's large , even script were considered adequate ; her interview was unexceptional , although the examiners at Girton College recognised her at once as she had been universally described by all who knew her : an extremely pleasant girl of excellent character . |
| 49 | The wind woke her at six , hustling the leaves on the trees , still green in November . |
| 50 | The most dramatic development of the last quarter of a century has been the emergence of the urban-rural shift as a major factor in population redistribution , but in the late 1970s and early 1980s its strength waned somewhat , as too did the pace of local decentralization , whereas the North-South divide reasserted itself at this time after a period of lower significance . |
| 51 | ‘ The extra few days off helped Gough , but it was n't my intention to play him at Aberdeen if the midweek game had been on . ’ |
| 52 | That was why Simon Draper was appalled , horrified and dumbstruck when Richard Branson telephoned him at home one Sunday evening in March 1984 , gushing enthusiasm for another idea . |
| 53 | In a nearby village girls of the Mission to the Blind had been settled before the final evacuation ; they continued with their weaving , and a recent army photograph showed them at work at their looms , surrounded by admiring soldiers and villagers . |
| 54 | Another couple of lads joined me at Middlesbrough station and off we went to be gentlemen 's gentlemen . |
| 55 | Bernice threw herself at another of the creatures . |
| 56 | It is recorded somewhat ruefully that , after years of struggle , when the Veterinarian had won its fight to get the course lengthened , students who had previously been apprenticed for three or four years to a practitioner claimed they at least ought to be able to leave the College after 12 months , and not have to stay the same period — two years — as the non-apprenticed . |
| 57 | Not that the organs of perception apprehended it at the time . |
| 58 | Fido 's owners should be aware of this and take steps to play him at his own game . |
| 59 | The kids get it at school . |
| 60 | Mistakenly thinking it would do no harm to put her at her ease — she was a plain woman with the faintest smell of spirits on her breath even at ten o'clock in the morning — he had mentioned the interesting photographs hung on the stairway leading to the stalls . |