Example sentences of "[vb past] [pron] at [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Alexander found himself at odds with these famous words of Shakespeare : |
| 2 | The facts of political geography are alone sufficient to suggest that there might be many occasions when the Duke of Aquitaine found himself at odds with the Taillefers and the Lusignans . |
| 3 | But Briggs found himself at odds with colleagues within the NASA scientific establishment . |
| 4 | Window displays were becoming controversial within the company ; Laura liked to see windows full of antiques and atmosphere , but increasingly found herself at loggerheads with more prosaic minds who wanted products and price-tags . |
| 5 | Living at such close quarters with them , Anne found herself at odds with the princesses . |
| 6 | Both the Emperor Marcian and his wife Pulcheria played an active part in the meetings : Marcian and Leo found themselves at loggerheads not so much over the dogmatic formulation as over the disciplinary canons that were appended . |
| 7 | " Now in 1849 both companies supplied virtually the same water … the Lambeth Company got theirs from the Thames close to the Hungerford Bridge ; the Southwark and Vauxhall Company got theirs at Battersea-fields . |
| 8 | Erm I mean Martin , Martin 's very good and he 'll , you know , stop me there and , and , and go back over it and but it , it , the the was already there so it 's already got you thinking about other things and , you know , things that were completely irrelevant and it confused me at times . |
| 9 | I took my friendly Spanish grammar to the library every day and tried to be polite to Jefferson when he maddened me at meals . |
| 10 | And bittern booming followed us at intervals all day . |
| 11 | With his evangelical approach , he thrived in the conditions of greater religious freedom introduced in 1988 , but his radical views on the church 's contemporary relevance placed him at odds with a traditionalist wing which sought to revive the Russian Orthodox Church as it had been before the Bolshevik revolution . |
| 12 | A violent , ruthless man ( released from Prison early ) gained control of a section and placed it at loggerheads with another section . |
| 13 | His hatred of the Empress , whom he never forgave for producing a male heir and thus depriving him of the succession to the throne , together with his inveterate hostility to what he considered to be the ‘ reactionary powers ’ , led him at times into very deep waters indeed . |
| 14 | That 's how she met him at relatives party . |
| 15 | He was now 25 years old and the episode on the island still haunted him at nights . |
| 16 | Occasionally he was referred to by those who saw him at services as ‘ the old canon ’ though he was much the youngest of the canons . |
| 17 | Why was it you only got it at places like fairs and the seaside ? |
| 18 | He remembered her at moments such as these and felt a twinge of guilt — not a searing kick in the gut — which , he supposed , was something else to be thankful for . |
| 19 | Many years before he had described , as we have seen the acute but generalized sense of apprehension which invaded him at times of stress or exhaustion and one recognizes in his temperament a permanent sense of impending doom and disaster — as if the world were always threatening to fall in upon him . |
| 20 | No she did it at doctors . |
| 21 | I did it there originally and then did it at festivals all over the country . |
| 22 | They flung themselves at sailors in a bid for immortality . |
| 23 | It is surprising in a way that we remember these things , for those of us living off Greenwich Mean Time witnessed them at hours well past our normal bedtime . |
| 24 | Indeed the Americans soon found themselves moving yet closer to Britain , especially once they discovered that their own initiatives ( not least their pressure on Israel ) still left them at loggerheads with Egypt and the Arab radicals . |
| 25 | It flicked behind each dimpled knee ; and then scourged her at intervals from her pretty ankles to her shoulder blades . |
| 26 | I purchased him at 16″ long about six months ago . |
| 27 | She disengaged herself and held me at arms , length . |
| 28 | Susan came down for breakfast today , and they had an exciting time opening their parcels , for their father 's illness had prevented their making friends in the neighbourhood ; but there was plenty to do and talk about , and they steadfastly refused to give way to the depression that naturally overcame them at times . |
| 29 | Police chased him at speeds of up to 70mph . |