Example sentences of "[pron] [pers pn] [vb past] at " in BNC.
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| 1 | Last ti me I dined at Balliol I sat next to the Regius Professor of Chemistry , aged around 193 , who told me about his visit to Egypt before the war , probably the Boer War . |
| 2 | It was also at about this time that a friend of Charlotte ( whom I met at a party ) commented on how much better Charlotte was looking — considering the circumstances . |
| 3 | People like ex-British Airways captain Derek Ellis whom I met at Kerikeri airfield . |
| 4 | The other , whom I recognised at once from the camp at Southampton and from the training centre at Achnacarry was sitting u– on the stretcher cursing his bad luck in getting a piece of shrapnel in his leg . |
| 5 | I I looked at the fabrics in the Libertys |
| 6 | Well I lo I I looked at the fifty and then |
| 7 | Erm I I missed at the beginning perhaps , that 's your present job still is it ? |
| 8 | Someone I met at a party ! |
| 9 | You did n't ask a question about my you accepted at face value the thing about health . |
| 10 | Then came the delicious moment of the aperitivo , that sense of the whole city beginning to wind down towards lunch , which I took at any one of a dozen excellent and welcoming restaurants where I was sure to be hailed and called over to one table or another . |
| 11 | However , that leaves the galleries open to pressure , when they come to the Minister and make points such as that which I made at the beginning of my speech — saying , for instance , that last year the Tate gallery could buy only one work of art . |
| 12 | If , bearing in mind the theory of society and superego development so far advanced in this book , we now turn our attention back to the analysis of modern culture outlined in the article from which I quoted so extensively in the chapter before last , we can see that the following remarks , also from that article , take on a much greater significance in the light of the point which I made at the conclusion of the last regarding the lack of a culturally determined latency period among the Australian aborigines : |
| 13 | I was surprised to find quite a few patches of snow near the summit , which I reached at about half past ten . |
| 14 | The first time I fished it I hooked a very big barbel which I estimated at 11lb to 12lb . |
| 15 | It is difficult to say how long this species lives in captivity , but I had an African Snakehead , which I acquired at a similar size to yours , and I kept him or her ( there are no external sex differences ) for 13 years . |
| 16 | The bedding which I observed at first hand in 1954 in the peasant community of Pul Eliya was nothing like as grand as the stereotype ; but , apart from some minor differences , it had all the same elements and for the most part they occurred in just the same sequence . |
| 17 | However , I shall return to the four themes which I identified at the beginning , and which have been threaded through the discussion . |
| 18 | Each society , of course , has to deal with many specific problems arising from its own culture and history , but there are also some general issues to be faced , and the two which seem to me still to be pre-eminent are those which I indicated at the beginning of this book : namely , industrialization and democracy . |
| 19 | This was due , no doubt , to the fact that though I motored further and further from the house , I continued to find myself in surroundings with which I had at least a passing acquaintance . |
| 20 | The two other officers were staring at me with a curiosity which I had at first thought similar to the curiosity I had found among the soldiers . |
| 21 | I collected a few birds on the way , among them a splendid Eagle which I killed at Perth . |
| 22 | I forwarded to him an estimate of the probable expence which I calculated at under £4000 with which sum I engaged to organize a party to keep the field for two years . |
| 23 | For guitars I just used the Jaguar and a Broadcaster-type thing made for , I think , Jerry Donahue , which I found at the studio . |
| 24 | I come to the hurdle which I confessed at the outset I might find difficult to clear : why collect first editions anyway , since the path is so littered with obstructions , difficulties and bibliographical rubbish , and the pilgrimage is often attended with so much expense ? |
| 25 | Above the ledge a steep crack leads apparently to the security of a deep recess , curving leftwards , which I flew at hoping to regain the sun . |
| 26 | Structures of support between mothers and daughters are subject to all the individual variations which I mentioned at the beginning of this discussion , and at a more collective level , ethnic and cultural variation is very important , with some cultural traditions placing a less strong emphasis on this bond than does white Anglo-Saxon culture . |
| 27 | From this lengthy account the balanced reciprocity which I mentioned at the beginning becomes very clear but some of you may think that the detail is excessive . |
| 28 | Though I do believe Alfieri is still important for the role he plays which I mentioned at the beginning as it is clever of Miller to incorporate the ‘ narrator ’ into the play in this way although it is not an original idea as Shakespeare used it with his characters ' soliloquies . |
| 29 | And this is the other aspect of Freud 's debt to Darwin which I mentioned at the beginning but said I would hold over for later . |
| 30 | I 've got the first issue which I bought at the away match at the Arse earlier on . |