Example sentences of "[noun sg] [pers pn] at [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Her current job is marketing controller for South East sales region , but when she left University she at first had no idea what she wanted to do . |
| 2 | Like her earlier Stand We At Last , which told the story of over a century of Western feminism , Daddy 's Girls shows Zoë Fairbairns to be adept at recreating detail and charting the changes in character 's lives as years pass . |
| 3 | Adultery features in this novel , as it did in Stand We At Last and Here Today , another of her novels . |
| 4 | The serious block-buster , the soap-boxing historical sage , is a growing phenomenon ( see Zoe/3 Fairbairns ' Stand We At Last , Robin Morgan 's Dry Your Smile , Meredith Tax 's Passionate Women ) , and one to be welcomed in many respects : trash with brain cells is a legitimate vehicle for conveying a serious message on a mass-market scale . |
| 5 | ‘ I would 'ave agreed wiv yer at one time , ’ Sadie replied . |
| 6 | Perhaps it was a tiredness resulting from the previous 14 pitches , but I could see no way of free climbing it at less than E5 , and I was n't good enough for that , not now . |
| 7 | Looking around the stable he at first failed to see Seb , until he looked upwards . |
| 8 | ( Boy would never , of course , have used the word us at this time . |
| 9 | After speeding across the moors and winding through woodland he at last found her and together they flowed slowly as one out into the Hamoaze . |
| 10 | And then you just do a run , you do n't have to go on to print it at all you just print it off . |
| 11 | So when those industrious fingers and wet lips finally arrived to caress her defenceless pudenda she at last found herself aroused . |
| 12 | Inert , mute , untouchable , she seemed uncanny and prodigious to Rosa , who wanted her to protest the hectic fury all around her , to come alive and give a sign , as , below her , the volunteers hauling the lumbering shrine on their backs on poles criss-crossed and tethered grew more obstreperous and howled and the crowd pressed up and obstructed their laborious way ahead ; after three turns around the piazza they at last reached the platform in the middle , only a little distance from the Duomo they had left , and the sweat-streaked bearers put down the skewed tower on which the Madonna stood , and tumbled to their knees . |
| 13 | When the audience broke into applause on first beholding the characteristically extravagant set she at first appeared dumbfounded and then sat back in her seat rather stiffly . |
| 14 | But in the Japanese Empire she at last came up against an eastern power developing at a rate comparable to her own , and one capable of offering effective resistance . |
| 15 | I would not stage it at all ! |