Example sentences of "[pron] at [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They would ask me into their classes to watch them teach ; they gave me time for interviews ; they allowed me into staff meetings and departmental meetings and I at various points in my research I erm attempted to feed back to them some of the material that I was coming up with , and we would have meetings to discuss this and I would erm use those meetings then to refine my ideas . |
| 2 | They mostly feed at dawn and dusk , so try feeding yours at these times , offering earthworms and pieces of fish . |
| 3 | The Archdeacon accused himself at many levels , not the least professional . |
| 4 | Eventually he finds himself at 500 feet , unable to see a good field ahead , unable to remember the wind direction , and trying to select a field with very little choice . |
| 5 | Unable to summon the courage to enter the cold dark of the river the man , a lawyer by profession , finds himself at odd moments thereafter , and even in the courtroom , increasingly assailed by a laugh at the back of his mind , a laugh that mocks his whole posture in the world , a laugh that progressively exposes in him what he chooses to see as a guilty pretence . |
| 6 | No unattached man , should he by some miracle present himself at Four Winds , would want to have anything to do with a dejected and increasingly agoraphobic young mother , still in her teens , and a baby whose fretfulness was beginning to get on even Harriet 's nerves . |
| 7 | He gyrated carefully so that he could see himself at all angles . |
| 8 | The galley was shaped like a three-sided square , and by parking himself at right angles to the double sink , his back to the companionway ladder , Nathan had her trapped . |
| 9 | Russell was what you might call a social climber , inasmuch as he specialized in fitting out rock shelters for himself at various altitudes and if possible receiving his friends in them . |
| 10 | There is , in other words , a double overlap in the ministry of Jesus , which prevents us from assuming that Father , Son and Spirit are three moulds into which the Deity pours himself at different periods in the history of salvation . |
| 11 | Flooding : The effect by which at long exposures large background areas are seen as white ( spreading affects only the edge of objects ) . |
| 12 | The Chelmsford pair battled through the earlier rounds despite their putting , which at crucial moments let them down , but were ultimately found out in a showpiece beset by cold winds and rain . |
| 13 | Understandably , these fires — which at thirty shillings were cheap to buy and easy to install — were widely sold in their millions in the postwar years . |
| 14 | Alexander was probably right to think , as he evidently did , that he would be better off if Persia rather than Athens ruled the Aegean : within a decade of the establishment of the Delian League , Athens began the expansion in the north , and the attempt to settle Amphipolis , on the River Strymon , which at certain times in the next century and a half dominated her foreign policy to the exclusion of all else ( Thuc. iv.102 ; Σ Aischin. ii.31 ) . |
| 15 | Each lamella consists of a pair of membranes which at certain points are interspaced by a third membrane , the GRANAL REGION of the chloroplast . |
| 16 | And towering above is Sgurr Alasdair which at 3,251 feet is the highest peak in the Cuillin . |
| 17 | Sardinia is a land whose past is riddled with bloody brigandry and often inexplicable feuding ; a land which at various times in the past has bowed the knee to such untoward arrivals as the Vandals and the Goths ( not to mention the supreme midfield general of his day , Napoleon Bonaparte ) . |
| 18 | The immediate result is that alongside a few major clerics such as Runcie and Jenkins , we find that Stalker , Sampson , Anderton , Alderson , Newman , Imbert , Dear , Oxford , and Hermon are national personalities , while a second division of chief officers regularly proclaim on a range of subjects which at other times would lie outside the province of the police . |
| 19 | Eagles needed to witness the migrations of the smaller birds , or to fly afield to see the world beyond territories which at other times of the year they spent their time protecting and never left . |
| 20 | Yet I could see , sitting next to him , that it brought him contentment which at other levels he lacked . |
| 21 | High-profile , big money American football is a game in which at all levels — schoolboy included — deliberately maiming and crippling opposition players is regarded as a legitimate tactic . |
| 22 | The firemen 's water had contained an extinguishing agent which at specific temperatures has an exalting effect on colour emulsion . |
| 23 | Her first impression of the man she knew with a sinking feeling could only be Niall Grant was of strong , sun-tanned features which held her gaze as the blue eyes looked coolly into hers , and for the first time in her life her height , which at five feet eight inches had given her an advantage over a lot of men , suddenly seemed diminished . |
| 24 | This reduces the risk of airflow interference from kite to kite which at close quarters can have surprising effects ! |
| 25 | It requires a series of step-by-step familiarization ‘ lessons ’ , in which at first things only remotely feline are presented to the victim . |
| 26 | This shallow , saucer-like dam , which at 1,600 feet is one fringed with cotton grass in mid-summer . |
| 27 | Hinde House was a fairly typical school in that there had been a recognition of the need to relate to the ‘ World of Work ’ , ‘ Employers ’ , ‘ Further and Higher Education ’ , ‘ Preparation for Adult Life ’ and many of the other banner headings which at different times were placed before us by non-school organisations . |
| 28 | During the first three millennia BC , two of the main concentrations of political power of the day , the Assyrian empire and Babylonia , lived in a state of near-permanent warfare , first with one another and then with the Persian kingdom of Elam , which at different times captured both Babylon and Ur and was itself in about 1100 BC laid waste by the Assyrians . |
| 29 | You could buy him the Crown of Command as one of his magic items , which at 50 points still makes him marginally cheaper than an Orc or Black Orc Warlord . |
| 30 | I am running a 1986 V8 County 90 which at 25,000 miles has no more than normal backlash in the transmission line , yet a most irritating noise has developed which can only be described as a clunk that occurs whenever I apply or lift off the throttle in any gear . |