Example sentences of "[pron] at [art] [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Someone claimed to have heard him on the radio from Darwin — but it was always someone at a third hand remove ; someone who had heard it from someone who had heard it from someone . |
| 2 | If you saw someone you knew and you shouted out to them , you were in dead trouble , even if you shouted hello , or if you asked someone at the next table for a cigarette . |
| 3 | Someone at the next table echoed that in a foreign accent and Ruth turned to smile at him and raise her glass in a mutual toast . |
| 4 | Advantages : An agency can usually find you someone at the last minute . |
| 5 | That meant he carried on and when someone at the last moment dropped out , he dropped in ; it was more or less par for the course that , by the end of 1944 , a very large number of Pathfinders had notched up 70 or more sorties . |
| 6 | Roman answered the phone himself at the first ring , and Claudia 's heart turned over . |
| 7 | DEC president Bob Palmer , who was supposed to grace this week 's gathering with his presence — see front page — absented himself at the last minute . |
| 8 | But Jean Marie Le Pen 's following , which at the last elections reached 27 per cent in some regions , can not simply be explained by his charisma . |
| 9 | Its fragrance is real , and penetrating : but it does not release itself at the first casual opening of the pages . |
| 10 | At rest the cricket looks like a dead leaf , but it transforms itself at the last moment . |
| 11 | Indeed , their first trip to Scotland since 1981 would not have been possible without the assistance of four British-based companies trading in Eastern Europe who at the eleventh hour put up a total of £10,000 . |
| 12 | One favourite Victorian theme was that of the dying gipsy child , who at the last hour was found by Christian children and so found salvation . |
| 13 | The heroine has escaped and alerted the police , who at the last minute burst in and save our hero from a fate worse than death . |
| 14 | Whatever the General may consider best , I will destroy you at the first available opportunity . ’ |
| 15 | ‘ Go and dump your shopping quickly and I 'll wait for you at the first bridge , ’ he suggested , indicating the expanse of parkland their building overlooked . |
| 16 | We 'll see you at the next coaches ' meeting . ’ |
| 17 | One is that that registered disabled employees and we will be bringing forward further proposals on initiatives to you at the next meeting , and I hope that if you agree , that will be amongst other things with the issue of non-registered disabled employees , and the other consideration in looking at movements in targets and so on , is inevitably the whole job market situation and the opportunities for achieving that . |
| 18 | Too close and you get swept over the edge except that they usually have some sort of wire-mesh barrier to stop you at the last moment . |
| 19 | This belief , though not taught in the Old Testament , was widely held in the Jewish constituency among whom Paul worked : it is widely believed today that if only you try hard and do your best , God will accept you at the last . |
| 20 | My fortune was denied you at the last , and that was the spur . |
| 21 | Again this was reported to you at the last meeting of this Committee . |
| 22 | They ca n't gazump you at the last minute cos it makes |
| 23 | Don ? t expect to understand everything at a first reading . |
| 24 | Saskia had thrown something at the third and hit it on the head . |
| 25 | Provided you have a fair left hand reach it 's possible to play this without a capo , although I have seen many people play it either with one at the 2nd fret , or without one by transposing the part down to E … |
| 26 | Mrs Cathy McHale , a 15-handicap member of Childwall , had her first hole in one at the 13th ( 136 yards ) in a holiday greensome . |
| 27 | Mrs Cathy McHale , a 15-handicap member of Childwall , had her first hole in one at the 13th ( 136 yards ) in a holiday greensome . |
| 28 | He missed five putts of around six feet and that one at the first . |
| 29 | ‘ Someone gave me one at the First Aid Post . |
| 30 | Working-class voters had already elected one Labour government in 1923 and following the General Strike they elected another one at the first opportunity in 1929 . |