Example sentences of "[pron] [adj] at the " in BNC.
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| 31 | Yet for Labour to win on its own at the next general election would be a victory on a scale comparable with that achieved by Attlee in 1945 . |
| 32 | Its Studio Theatre has a life of its own at the forefront of creative theatre . |
| 33 | At first sight , this seems to be an attractive move : holding hearings behind closed doors has led to accusations that the Institute is protecting its own at the expense of the public interest . |
| 34 | line of type on its own at the top or bottom of a page . |
| 35 | But she comes into her own at the not-bloody-likely tea party ; and by the end , she has achieved just the right blend of poignancy and pride . |
| 36 | She had dreaded the moment when the food would be done with and the others would get up to dance , leaving her on her own at the table . |
| 37 | On her own at the till , Rachaela removed the extra pound and kept it . |
| 38 | We 've got one on her own at the end there , so . |
| 39 | By late March they were in Bologna , where Wolfgang was put through his paces by the famous theorist Padre Martini , who professed himself amazed at the boy 's ability to work out complex fugues on a brief given subject . |
| 40 | After the Nuuk meeting Danish Environment Minister Svend Auken declared himself disappointed at the " lack of political will " to tackle the problem . |
| 41 | There was admittedly a fiki but he was very restrained and seemed anxious to keep himself invisible at the back . |
| 42 | She knew she was n't looking her best at the moment , but they looked the type to know quality when they saw it she thought , as she fluttered he awnings at them , colourless now , tattered and torn by the wind . |
| 43 | Her dreams were so vivid while the poem shimmered on her desk — signed , sealed , undelivered — that she had to catch herself from grabbing Lucy 's hands , kissing her right out in the street , holding her close at the end of each day , saying , come home , darling ; grabbing her and flinging her to the floor , ripping her clothes off , sinking into her breasts , fucking her like a sheet of flame . |
| 44 | They ‘ got away with it ’ with a half in bogey at the 19th , but they could not get their four at the 20th , where Tom Waugh , the son , holed an excellent putt . |
| 45 | As it was , the most she could hope for was his speedy return to Hong Kong , but for now she supposed she would just have to endure a certain amount of contact , as he had warned her earlier at the party just before leaving her with Cavell Fielding and Penny Seu Chen . |
| 46 | Dorothy looked determined rather than festive ; she would have been in her forties at the time but already stood as though planted , like an elderly woman . |
| 47 | It seemed to me obvious at the time that to be a child was safer and easier than to be adult and that , specifically , to be a girl was safer and easier than to be a woman . |
| 48 | What time you due at the hairdresser , quarter to ? |
| 49 | Are you free at the weekend ? ’ |
| 50 | What are you curly at the back ? |
| 51 | I could have told you this at the height of his reputation , just as I could have predicted his downfall after a few short years in the limelight . |
| 52 | You okay at the moment ? |
| 53 | I hope very much to be with you all at the January meeting when I shall be able to thank you personally |
| 54 | It is as well that she has chosen to stay with you this evening because there is no way I will leave you alone at the farm . ’ |
| 55 | Did they give you any at the shelter ? ’ |
| 56 | An excursion to the top of the high alpine road of Gross Glockner will leave you breathless at the fantastic views stretching as far as the eye can see in every direction . |
| 57 | ‘ I 'll see you two at the party , no doubt ? ’ she said to Robert and Jane . |
| 58 | Anyway , the poi , the other thing is erm then obviously this re , concerns really you know , you two at the moment , but , players for next year , I mean bearing in mind we are gon na lose a few . |
| 59 | Were you aware at the time that it was a small house ? |
| 60 | Folk will think you eccentric at the very least . ’ |