Example sentences of "[pers pn] [adj] at [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The subject had bored me witless at school , but on Sheila 's lips it all came alive , and forced me to the conclusion that it was n't history which was boring , but those who tried to teach it . |
| 2 | So send for your three introductory books now from only £1 each ( +£2.25 p. & p. ) and examine them FREE at home for 10 days without obligation . |
| 3 | Helps helps us to keep them warm at night . |
| 4 | And how about you , Pam , were you fortunate at school too ? |
| 5 | Do n't know , are you good at debating ? |
| 6 | Child : Were you still at school in the war ? |
| 7 | Three hearty hurrahs , therefore , for the inventors of the GuitaRest , the kind of ultra-neat idea that keeps you awake at night wishing that you 'd thought of it . |
| 8 | If your man 's snoring keeps you awake at night , just check his neck . |
| 9 | I imagine you have a great deal to keep you awake at night . ’ |
| 10 | Traditionally , 24 hours of heart beat would be recorded on a device using a cassette tape , which works perfectly well , but it has the obvious problems of mechanical parts , moving parts , it makes a noise that might keep you awake at night . |
| 11 | To whom are you accountable at work ? ( part-time students ) |
| 12 | To whom are you accountable at College ? |
| 13 | However , unsettling influences could make you over-emotional at home . |
| 14 | But it was not keeping many of them awake at night , and it certainly was n't the major influence on how they were going to vote . |
| 15 | When fear keeps them awake at night , parents would do well to remember that thousands of teenagers try things and then move on , that people of all ages make regular use of drugs as part of their happy , productive lives and , above all , that we are not the hapless victims of some depraved international conspiracy . |
| 16 | I WRITE with reference to the two letters from concerned residents of Chelwood Avenue , Childwall , who complain about their street lights being too bright , too effective and thus keeping them awake at night . |
| 17 | Kansas and the land of Oz were sufficiently far away not to keep me awake at night , but Darby O'Gill lived just down the road , somewhere in Ireland ; and his world of leprechauns and banshees was outside my window at night . |
| 18 | It 's my husband Deardrie — he keeps me awake at night , grinding his teeth ! |
| 19 | ‘ Well , all right , so I thought the decision was surprising , but I 'd long since realized that if I allowed that sort of thing to keep me awake at night I was going to be a chronic insomniac . |
| 20 | This made him popular at home , but enraged Alexander III . |
| 21 | Those memories kept him awake at night , often leaving him sweating and fearful after dreaming of long dark tunnels and falling through space . |
| 22 | She could sympathize with his chagrin but it was hardly enough to keep him awake at night . |
| 23 | His fascination for words would often keep him awake at night as the poetry of the place is a kind of Rubik 's cube which can become obsessive . |
| 24 | According to this poem , his dread of foreclosure by his creditors is keeping him awake at night . |
| 25 | ROS : Is it different at home ? |
| 26 | It was marked a vista , which made it payable at sight . |
| 27 | The Gardeners ' Manual has been designed to pull out and collect , so you can always keep it close at hand with your other gardening reference books . |
| 28 | The Gardeners ' Manual has bee designed to pull out and collect , so you can always keep it close at hand with your other gardening reference books . |
| 29 | Whether at work , at home or out for the evening , always keep them close at hand . |
| 30 | The worried son of a deceased benefice-holder mobilised two great magnates , one of them well-placed at court , to ensure his succession to a beneficium non grande when he himself was prevented from coming to the palace . |