Example sentences of "[pers pn] at a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Or scanned you at a maiden aunt 's , |
| 2 | Even though your school may not have the most modern and well equipped building set in extensive playing fields serving a prosperous suburb this need not put you at a great disadvantage in marketing the school . |
| 3 | ‘ Is your sister expecting you at a specific time ? ’ asked Penry when they were on the way to Haverfordwest at last . |
| 4 | Lock your door , set whatever device will rouse you at a definite time ( cooking-timer , flashing alarm clock , vibrator ) — set it to go off in eight minutes . |
| 5 | ‘ He has no manners , eats like a peasant , talks like he needs salt on his marrow , and is as free with his smile as a tinker cheating you at a fair on a saint 's day . |
| 6 | on a , on how I find you at a particular time . |
| 7 | Everybody has them and something must be holding you at a given height above the ground ! ’ |
| 8 | ‘ Oh — have I caught you at a bad time , dear ? ’ |
| 9 | ‘ Look , I 've got you at a bad moment , sorry . |
| 10 | ‘ I 've obviously caught you at a bad moment . |
| 11 | Whether housing your new brood of Kribs in a derelict stone cottage appeals to you at a whimsical or practical level is irrelevant . |
| 12 | His estates were , moreover , a heterogeneous collection , put together with an eye to providing him with an income rather than creating a political niche for him at a regional level . |
| 13 | His estates were , moreover , a heterogeneous collection , put together with an eye to providing him with an income rather than creating a political niche for him at a regional level . |
| 14 | He was talented enough and resourceful enough to survive it , although I think it almost devastated and destroyed him at a certain point . |
| 15 | If reserved for his personal use , it might put him at a certain advantage over his employer . |
| 16 | ‘ Is all well ? ’ he asked when she joined him at a small table in a corner of the crowded bar . |
| 17 | He had the faculty of meeting everyone on the level , and Father had a story of seeing him at a political meeting , which he was probably chairing , walking arm in arm with the Grand Old Man himself , both talking . |
| 18 | With his shorts flapping around his knees and his wispy , thinning hair he was almost a caricature of a footballer , but Wally could mesmerise his opposing full-back or swerve past him at a deceptive pace , before putting across an accurate , teasing centre . |
| 19 | Frank Cole of the Daily Telegraph wrote of Chapman : ‘ If you sat near him at a big match … you realized the intense earnestness of the man . |
| 20 | Next Wednesday , a score of television bigwigs will meet him at a special seminar at the Department of Trade and Industry , part of the D T I 's efforts to boost British exports . |
| 21 | There were the two gold and jewelled boxes Müller had sold him at a staggering profit , considering he had bought them from someone facing criminal charges , and desperate for cash . |
| 22 | Now that he 'd told her he wanted the club , Adam would probably expect her to keep him at a wary arm 's length . |
| 23 | They approached him at a steady pace as though unconcerned by his presence , but they went in single file , Allen with his hand lying lightly on the knife at his belt and Marian carrying her bow , strung , and with an arrow ready notched , lightly and inconspicuously in her left hand . |
| 24 | He told the reporter , who was driven blindfold to meet him at a secret location , that gangsters doused one of his two sons with petrol and threatened to kill them both if he did not co-operate in the theft . |
| 25 | Could I have caught him at a bad moment , could he have mellowed , I could n't believe it . |
| 26 | I think you just caught him at a bad moment . |
| 27 | ‘ I know you and Niall did n't exactly get off to a good start , but if it 's any consolation you caught him at a bad time . |
| 28 | With a wide smile , one of the waitresses came to collect her , and seat her at a small table in the window . |
| 29 | He was obviously well-known because people nodded to him , smiled , glanced curiously at her as Feargal sat her at a small table at the rear . |
| 30 | The tired horse faced a journey of at least twenty miles across heavy country so he kept her at a sedate trot . |