Example sentences of "[prep] [pers pn] at [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Can staff arrange for others to work for them at times of crisis ? |
| 2 | This would enable readers to identify outhoused books , and to submit requests for them at times which tie in with the scheduled delivery service . |
| 3 | ‘ It has been a frustrating season for me at times , because of the brilliant form of Pears . |
| 4 | ‘ It has been a frustrating season for me at times , because of the brilliant form of Pears . |
| 5 | ‘ I know I 'm no angel , Robyn , I know my temper gets the better of me at times , but you must understand the pressure that I was under too . |
| 6 | A dozen or more of them at times . |
| 7 | No I ca n't er , I ca n't tell you that I did definitely , although I , I 've heard a lot of them at times but er , I 'm not sure . |
| 8 | Now the boatmen they used to erm the name , the family of a name of , and the old man , the grandfather his name was and then they had three sons who were boatmen , one was called Arthur John , one had a nickname of Snowball , the other one 's name was George and they used to er , some of them at times used to row from the lock gates out to the Cork Lightship together to get a boat , so they made sure of roping that boat in at , at er in the dock or at Cliff Quay and course they used to get the captain of the ship to sign er a bill and they used to take that to the , to the shipping agent and then he 'd pay 'em the money . |
| 9 | By the end of his first year , more that sixty village lectures had been provided , about one-third of them at Women 's Institutes , and five short courses were arranged in villages near Ipswich . |
| 10 | The mother also agreed to place a small plate of Ben 's favourite food ( chunks of cheese and pieces of apple ) in front of him at meal-times but then not to watch him eat by getting on with a job in the kitchen . |
| 11 | They overtook him when he was n't expecting it ; they pulled up at the side of the road and trapped him behind them ; they got in front of him at traffic-lights and then decided to turn right . |
| 12 | This engine , ‘ Lion ’ was an 0-4-2 for the Liverpool & Manchester Railway , and had a remarkable career , much of it at Princes Dock , Liverpool , where it was used by the Mersey Docks & Harbour Board as a stationary boiler until it was discovered in almost original condition and restored at Crewe for the 1930 L & M R film ‘ The Titfield Thunderbolt ’ . |
| 13 | And of course there was the fertilizer pile , next to me — beyond which was a slightly different pile , with sticks thrusting out of it at angles . |
| 14 | Television in every home may be a blessing for the old and infirm , indeed for all of us at times , but that , the motor car , foreign travel and umpteen other things have all combined to affect attitudes towards sport and leisure . |
| 15 | There 's nobody in this world more sorry for you at times than I am , for you could have been a real good-lookin' , strappin' fella . |
| 16 | You seem to be going through everything this season it seems to be a nightmare for you at times . |
| 17 | Barnsley survived fierce pressure but Boro struggled to create real scoring chances , though luck was against them at times . |
| 18 | Indeed , the internal acrimony levelled against him at times has been such that , when his departure was announced , the best that some figures within the health network could say was ‘ we 'll be very happy to wish him goodbye ’ . |
| 19 | But I was standing near her at prayers this morning . |
| 20 | It was because of Phil Dad said I could rehearse with them at weekends . ’ |
| 21 | I also made contact with the local cycle touring group and did several rides with them at weekends and on Tuesday evenings . |
| 22 | I wonder if Tod 's new interest in women is a professional interest , connected to his dealings with them at AMS : his custodial scrutiny of disturbed or distempered female flesh . |
| 23 | If the lad was a bit stern with her at times , it was only for her own good . ’ |
| 24 | ‘ She talks of little else and makes me quite vexed with her at times . |
| 25 | I think the clergy wonder what to do with him at times . |
| 26 | I would go drinking with him at lunchtimes during the week , listening to his stories of combat and debauchery in distant corners of the world . |
| 27 | Chang lived just a couple of doors along from me at Backyards , sharing a house with Barton Lynch , so we often ran into each other on the early morning surf check . |
| 28 | He 'll make Heathcliff pay rent , and hope to win money from him at cards . |
| 29 | The grass waved in the morning breeze , the yellow frames of landing lights rising from it at intervals like isolated rigs in a weed-choked sea . |
| 30 | This can lead to a series of continuous keys with gaps left in it at intervals . |