Example sentences of "[adv] [to-vb] [pers pn] at " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The money we 'll get for the house , if we 're lucky enough to sell it at a good price , will just about pay the bills . ’ |
| 2 | Callinicos , defence of Marxism is erudite and compelling , and the fact that he runs out of steam over post-war art is of less moment than the fact that he takes the range of issues seriously enough to discuss them at all . |
| 3 | The problem that exists is that factions of governors who are members of the European Central Bank and who disagree with its policies may join together to frustrate them at the national level . |
| 4 | But chimpanzees do not breed well in captivity , partly because of a long pregnancy and childhood , and trapping them in the wild is expensive and wasteful enough to put them at risk of extinction . |
| 5 | Not bad enough , he judged , for him to stay in bed but bad enough to keep him at home . |
| 6 | Surely the manager could have massaged his ego enough to keep him at the club . |
| 7 | These are waters which do not , as a rule , produce big bream , for with so many mouths to share the available food there is only enough to maintain them at a low body weight . |
| 8 | It was , said one speaker forgivingly , ‘ better to have him at Lloyds seeking to insure his own cargoes , than at sea seeking cargoes insured by others ’ . |
| 9 | She had a terrible urge just to chuck it at Evelyn 's feet and run away , but she knew if she did that there was a chance she might burst into tears . |
| 10 | If they get in if they start getting in the way the best thing to do is just let them relax to the side and try and forget about them , I know it 's difficult to forget about them but just to the conscious effort with the hands is just to put them at the side . |
| 11 | Positivist criminology , on the other hand , seemed scarcely to recognise it at all . |
| 12 | ‘ It is number 52 , is n't it ? ’ she asked , just to keep him at the end of the line . |
| 13 | The simple way there as you 've probably been told by your tax officer here is just to reclaim it at the end of the tax year . |
| 14 | More to put her at her ease again than for any other reason I picked up The Times and showed it to her . |
| 15 | perhaps like to mention it at the end of the session and I can arrange to get one of those sent to you . |
| 16 | Because Kate , for all her faults real and imagined , was the only person ever to take him at face value . |
| 17 | Newton , who celebrated by clubbing in London 's West End , has played in every position for Chelsea — including goalkeeper for part of a reserve game — and Porterfield must be tempted now to leave him at the front for the next test against Middlesbrough . |
| 18 | it seems like now to tell you at last I 've come to terms with it now , I 've really |
| 19 | The existence of the requirement of standing indicates that the law 's primary concern is not , as such , to control government activity but rather to control it at the suit of persons affected by it in a particular way . |
| 20 | ‘ I persuaded her once or twice to meet me at the ruined tower . |
| 21 | IF Stakis shareholders had come to bury Caesar last year then they were there to praise him at yesterday 's annual general meeting in the Normandy Hotel in Renfrew . |
| 22 | The Poles bore the massive burden of state subsidies and international debt repayments first to create Gdynia and then to run it at rates that would undercut the Danzig trade . |
| 23 | And we did n't go there to cut them at all because they were right open , right in the open and there was ho hope for them anyway . |
| 24 | With examples like these , it is easy to go further and accept , for the purposes of the story , that even Gandalf 's good intentions would not resist the Ring , and that Galadriel too does right to refuse it at I , 381 . |
| 25 | If Iran is cheating on nuclear weapons , the International Atomic Energy Agency has yet to catch it at it . |
| 26 | His complacency remained unshaken when , on Thursday 17 January 1746 , having advanced from Edinburgh towards Stirling he found that the rebels , far from fleeing , had moved forward to meet him at Falkirk , a small town about ten miles [ 16 km ] to the south-east . |
| 27 | I would like to have it very much because music is one of the great pleasures in life to me but I just have nowhere to put it at the moment . |
| 28 | They 're chewing up the lawn but Carl there 's nowhere else to put them at the moment . |
| 29 | ‘ Well , I did n't have anywhere else to put it at home ! ’ |
| 30 | He was 55 years old in 1860 , living in Lambeth as a bachelor — perhaps with nothing much else to interest him at the time ? |