Example sentences of "[conj] [vb -s] [pers pn] at " in BNC.
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| 1 | Er that concludes ours at this moment Mr . |
| 2 | That shooting The London boxing promoter Mickey Duff said : ‘ The only thing that worries me at the moment is his speedy recovery . ’ |
| 3 | PS Do let me know if there 's anything in the script that worries you at all — my home number is 01 228 9066 . |
| 4 | ‘ It 's the time of death that concerns me at present , sir , ’ he said . |
| 5 | It is a magic one , though only modestly so : ‘ He that blows it at need shall set fear in the hearts of his enemies and joy in the hearts of his friends , and they shall hear him and come to him . ’ |
| 6 | Even if I did n't have a job that keeps me at the other end of the country for most of the year , this sort of place could n't provide a living . |
| 7 | He has also pointed to the way in which metaphor joins dissimilar experiences by finding a symbol or image that unites them at a deeper level of meaning ( ibid , p. 63 ) . |
| 8 | 65 ) that the historian 's duty is ‘ to rejudge the conduct of men , that generous actions may be snatched from oblivion , and that the author of pernicious counsels , and the perpetrator of evil deeds may see , beforehand , the infamy that awaits them at the tribunal of posterity ’ . |
| 9 | Then the reader 's fingernail will be able to produce the scent of clematis that wafts in through my window , the foie gras that awaits me at lunch , the liquid inspiration that gets me through the final paragraph . |
| 10 | What Freud provides is a workable and , on the whole , convincing hypothesis or model that enables us at least to describe , if not to explain , the workings of the mind — that is , people 's behaviour and people 's creations , such as visual art and literature . |
| 11 | Harry takes the matchstick out of his mouth and points it at Howard . |
| 12 | First , the testator takes a blank piece of paper and signs it at the bottom . |
| 13 | Especially now that his grandfather is no longer as robust as he once was , and needs him at Arrancay . ’ |
| 14 | Even Lucy 's friend — and later lover — M. Paul seeks advice from the Church , and questions her at length about her Protestant theology , before they become seriously attached . |
| 15 | BECAUSE DUDLEY MOORE has been told to turn up at his restaurant at Venice Beach , California at 2.30 pm to tell me his version of the story of his life , then Dudley Moore more or less dudleys into his restaurant at Venice Beach , California and joins me at a corner table where I 've been waiting to hear his story . |
| 16 | The Chinese believe that to stand on one leg while kicking with the other unbalances the practitioner and places him at a disadvantage . |
| 17 | A university congregates together that type of personality and places it at the disposal of the succeeding generation . |
| 18 | That is , in addition to the tendency to feel tired because we have been awake a long time , there is some rhythmic change that decreases our fatigue at some times and increases it at others . |
| 19 | The official guide starts the walk at Calenzana in the north and ends it at Conca , and most walkers tackle it that way . |
| 20 | Visitors unencumbered by cars get an even better introduction by embarking at Glenfinnan on the small passenger boat that plies the seventeen miles of Loch Shiel and delivers them at Acharacle without effort on their part : an idyllic cruise . |
| 21 | And swings it at her . ’ |
| 22 | It usually works by acting as an external focus for the electric fields generated by the brain , and directs them at a receptive machine or conditioned brain elsewhere . |
| 23 | One picks up a piece of donkey shit and throws it at his friend who runs off laughing . |
| 24 | Because the high power electron beam would damage the magnets , a magnetic transport system ( not shown ) injects the beam into the wiggler and removes it at the exit . |
| 25 | It takes you and deposits you at the edge of a precipice and you can watch helplessly as you dangle and your hopes for survival are sinking into the depths of despair ’ . |
| 26 | Locke 's claim that prior to experience the mind is ‘ white paper , void of all characters ’ , and that all its ideas , the materials of knowledge , come from that source , had been made earlier by Gassendi , but he defends and explains it at much greater length . |
| 27 | The firm collects the waste in lorries and processes it at a plant in the village of Cam Brea , producing 5 tonnes of black tin per week . |
| 28 | Among other things , smoking makes the blood clot more easily and puts him at risk of another heart attack , which may be less mild than the first . |
| 29 | But even the refusal to talk about it , as Michel Foucault has noted , marks it as the secret and puts it at the heart of discourse . |
| 30 | He quoted a passage from the Psalms in which God speaks to the Messiah and sets him at his right hand until all enemies have been overcome . |