Example sentences of "[pron] at [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You see they did n't do things then that they would have done today , you see , seven years and you see I at that time , well I used to used to have a day off and instead of having a half day a week we used to have full day a fortnight and so of course on my day off I came home to see what I can do to help , you see and er my mother died . |
| 2 | Now I 've done removals before then , not so much now , but I at one time used to be out on the road doing removals myself very often and I would get in for about seven o'clock in the evening get a quick grab something to eat , rush round this place , put the fires on and get it ready . |
| 3 | So I have to say that though I at this moment very close to this in the smallest county of England I have also had experience in three other major counties in mainland England er and I have found the same experience the difficulty of finding people who will even be councillors or magistrates , let alone these other jobs that the er that the er Home Secretary seeks to find . |
| 4 | I 've got a bit of a conflict of interest here straightaway because the actual case that Roy is talking about is actually my brother and I at this moment have been complaining to the Lloyds Policy Unit in respect of erm this particular policy , because the company that was actually trading went into liquidation . |
| 5 | all that 's been disclosed is one as far as I know , erm your Lordship can see that I at some stage need to have a look at them , er before I complete in any way so I can cross examine Mr er my Lord may I just say this , on the seventeenth of November , that 's two days ago , we asked for the documents of the necessary twelve M P's two days ago |
| 6 | ‘ He is not — nor is he likely to be as far as I can make out — although Matt dropped a hint that there had been someone at one stage . |
| 7 | Someone at general command had a great idea , a cheap-rate sequel to GI Blues in which a young Scottish footballer plays the part of a handsome conscript . |
| 8 | Although the latter cases are probably a diminishing minority , especially now that budgetary delegation under LMS has made it essential that heads in their turn delegate a greater proportion of their managerial functions to senior staff , our studies indicate a more general need for primary schools to continue to review the role of deputy headship , to define more exactly the range of tasks it is appropriate for someone at that level of seniority to undertake , and to ensure that all deputy heads have appropriate job specifications . |
| 9 | A tape recording , taken by someone at that meeting suggests that an agreement was made to compensate the disillusioned traders . |
| 10 | But the , you know it 's two o'clock in the morning and police car 's coming through the village and see someone at that time , they 're quite likely to stop and ask them what they 're doing . |
| 11 | They have to report to someone at parliamentary level when they have completed their analyses . |
| 12 | Someone at Head Office needs to do a quick bit of thinking here : to couple an outstanding Appalachian Spring with this twaddle is not only an insult to Dennis Russell Davies and his superb musicians , but also to the prospective purchaser of this disc . |
| 13 | The point of issue is that estuary and coastal zone management is a reality and what seems to be happening is all sorts of different plans are popping up on various estuaries and Geoff knows them well now because he 's been involved with the one on the Stour and Orwell and what is happening is that these are starting at local level so the first contact with sailors may be from a local authority or someone at local level . |
| 14 | And if the committee of the CICCU be taxed with bringing in someone who did not fit the undergraduates of a university , it might be replied , first that they were desperate to find someone at short notice , and secondly , was it desirable that a missioner should fit the undergraduates ? |
| 15 | She was so much a daughter of the vicarage in accent , manner , and appearance ( her father had been a clergyman ) that without being told I had assumed , seeing evidence in Mrs Browning 's home that someone at some time had lived in a hot country , that her husband had been a missionary . |
| 16 | Prof Chris Turner , professor in the Department of Applied Social Sciences , Stirling University , made his at this week 's Children 's Panels conference at Peebles : |
| 17 | The absence of Neil Lenham ( how many times have I written that , I wonder ? ) handed Keith Greenfield a more regular opportunity to open , one this Brighton beau has grabbed enthusiastically , twice registering 55-overs bests , narrowly missing a Sunday best and forming such a productive partnership with Jamie Hall that Smith found himself at first drop for the initial one-dayers . |
| 18 | High remuneration , excellent prospects and an immediate cash bonus await the successful applicant who will present himself at twelve noon today . |
| 19 | Dauntless felt a little chagrined she was n't more impressed and grateful , but then he supposed he looked little other than a lunatic scrap himself at that moment . |
| 20 | As he says of himself at that juncture in his career , his quitting in Monaco was ‘ the climax to a situation which had existed all year , stemming … basically from a lack of interest and enthusiasm ’ . |
| 21 | In a long account of this hunt , Green refers to himself at one point as being in the ‘ plebeian party . ’ |
| 22 | He seated himself at one end , and Emily sat beside him . |
| 23 | Although neither Mrs Chalmers , the light-bulb lady , nor old Frank who does tyres and drives the Recovery , work Sundays , Pa is always ready to collect vehicles himself at any time , night and day , weekends included . |
| 24 | He thought briefly about Surere again , and wondered with something akin to panic whether he would reappear ; then , angered with himself at this disloyalty to a former colleague and certainly a fellow-sufferer under the new regime , he dismissed the matter and concentrated instead on what he would say to Taheb . |
| 25 | He played the accompaniments himself at this stage . |
| 26 | Corbett related that he felt much like committing suicide himself at this point . |
| 27 | We know from external evidence that Milton is clearly talking about himself at this point . |
| 28 | External factors such as slowness by the contractor may be causing programme delay and the manager must have the ability to involve himself at senior level within the organisations causing delay , in order to try to influence change in the progress of the work . |
| 29 | They had no other Dutch communities to look to ; they kept their own language for over a century and the switch of allegiance from one ruler to another was one that nobody at that time found at all difficult . |
| 30 | Nobody at fine leg appealed for lbw or for a catch , but now everybody does , and I do n't know why this is . ’ |