Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb -s] [pers pn] at " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Russian poet mistakes him at first for a brigand of the woods , a political conspirator , or a charlatan trading in elixirs and arsenic . |
| 2 | The second exception was established in Tuberville v. Stamp where it was held that liability extended to a fire originating in a field as much as to one beginning in a house , but if the defendant kindles it at a proper time and place and the violence of the wind carry it to his neighbour 's land , that is fit to be given in evidence . |
| 3 | Depart London Heathrow for Pisa , where your hire car awaits you at the airport . |
| 4 | What sublime emotion inspires you at the moment of the assault ? |
| 5 | ‘ You do n't see a carpenter saying he wo n't build a house because he does n't like what 's next door and he 's going to wait until there 's a house with 8.3 rooms and the sun has it at a certain angle and then he 'll pound his nails and he wants billing above the plumber . ’ |
| 6 | Shattered after losing his young second wife , he moved to Bath , then in its social heyday , where a benign-looking portrait shows him at seventy , grasping a book entitled Views of Painshill . |
| 7 | The camera signals are stored in separate buffers and the controller reads them at twice the rate at which they were written . |
| 8 | The law puts them at risk from oncoming forwards and I can see a spate of potentially serious injuries . |
| 9 | and we went in and like the vicar greets you at the door do n't he and she was like up to the vicar like , you know , she 's more fucking heavier than thou |
| 10 | Where the SPRU team takes us at a brisk trot through the literature , Jan Zimmerman adopts more of a wild canter in her survey of the likely effects on women of a range of new technologies , in a piece that makes up in polemic what it lacks in argument . |
| 11 | After all if we say , ‘ I did n't appreciate that remark , ’ that tells the world something about us , and we may perceive that it is unwise to let people know that the remark disturbs us at all so we do not share our feelings . |
| 12 | One estimate of this period puts it at about thirty days . |
| 13 | Nearly half the population does it at least once . |
| 14 | ALAN Healsey 's wife meets him at the back door of their home every night with a dressing gown . |
| 15 | Yet the main character says it at every opportunity — that , and ‘ silly old moi ’ . |
| 16 | As for the Archduke , though I personally prefer a more tautly sustained sense of direction in the opening Allegro moderato , this performance as a whole reveals them at their best , with a truly rapt and spacious slow movement as prime proof of their vision . |
| 17 | A gem of a country station awaits you at GOATHLAND complete with cast-iron footbridge and colourful gardens . |
| 18 | Breath-taking flight simulation puts you at the joystick from biplane to helicopter . |
| 19 | AJR procedure incorporates certain procedural protections for public bodies and the rule that a claimant asserting public law interests can only use AJR procedure puts him at a disadvantage which is justifiable only on the assumption that public law interests do not matter as much as private law rights and , therefore , do not deserve as much legal protection . |
| 20 | The effect on listed adjoining properties , Donithorn , Riley House and er , the other one , the name escapes me at the moment , erm , and that it will give insufficient curbage to Riley House when er , whatever development takes place there . |
| 21 | ‘ Your aunt needs you at her side . |
| 22 | It is the unique experience of rail travellers on the Gotthard to glimpse the same , unmistakable baroque-domed village church three times in a few minutes as the train passes it at different levels above and below . |
| 23 | Four hours ' ride finds you at ruins of the Mayan civilisation where the cousins of the Aztecs built jungle pyramids to worship their gods . |
| 24 | I am hoping to meet some of the children before the Marathon and when the pain barrier hits me at around 20 miles I will only need to think of the courage and bravery of these young children to give me the extra incentive I need to finish the race . |
| 25 | ‘ The joke evolves down the pub in Newcastle , and the lorry driver tells it at a truck-stop and within 24 hours it 's all over the country . ’ |
| 26 | My voice holds them at bay . |
| 27 | The Champ greets me at the door to his mother 's house in Louisville . |
| 28 | ‘ I knew there would be trouble at that roundabout — the road approaches it at a very acute angle . |
| 29 | a specially coded hyphen which is only displayed when formatting of the hyphenated word puts it at the end of a line . |
| 30 | The drifting phase of its life puts it at the mercy of all kinds of hungry animals , from other stationary filter-feeders to fish , so in order that its species shall survive , a mollusc must produce great numbers of eggs . |