Example sentences of "[vb pp] [pron] at a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Their one hundred and fifty ton heavy life crane would have coped with that job easily enough but I hastily declined his offer which , apart from any other consideration would have placed me at a slight disadvantage . |
| 2 | You 've caught me at a very late lunch . |
| 3 | ‘ Oh — have I caught you at a bad time , dear ? ’ |
| 4 | ‘ I 've obviously caught you at a bad moment . |
| 5 | The VPP500 system features a series of 1.6 GigaFLOPS vector processors , in parallel configurations of from seven to 222 , offering performances of 11.2 to 355 GFLOPS — the nodes can be added one at a time . |
| 6 | If anaphors were to be resolved one at a time and left to right , nothing would yet have been done about ‘ him ’ , so the configurational contribution would be missed and reasoning would be inevitable . |
| 7 | This suggested they had been attacked one at a time , and taken by surprise , which reinforced the verdict that two and not four men were involved . |
| 8 | If , unusually , there is no time pressure , the targets can be approached one at a time in order of their relative attractiveness . |
| 9 | Could I have caught him at a bad moment , could he have mellowed , I could n't believe it . |
| 10 | This had dropped him at a garage in Cromcruach and had then mysteriously vanished before he could offer his thanks . |
| 11 | You take me away for the weekend and then come back and act as if you 've just met me at a friend 's house for the first time ! |
| 12 | One glimmer of hope though , tonight police say that someone who knows the couple claims to have seen them at a garden centre in herefordshire . |
| 13 | I 've seen one at a display of falconry trying to ‘ creep up ’ on a pigeon . |
| 14 | If half the records on a track have to be moved one at a time , and a device revolution is required for each movement , additions can take a great deal of time . |
| 15 | He had pressed her to marry him , though he was considerably older than she was , and she had accepted him at a time of great emotional exhaustion . |
| 16 | ‘ I 've met him at a couple of PFA functions and when it was my testimonial he sent some things down to be raffled . |
| 17 | Sally-Anne had met him at a party ; he had long been settled in England , and he had been impressed and amused by her fiery conversation and her obvious intelligence . |
| 18 | And she 'd go on the demonstrations in it too , I 've seen her at a rally in a park dragging that beaded hem through the mud . |
| 19 | I 've never seen her at a meeting , but she could still be an associate member . |
| 20 | Last year and this year they could have upgraded it at a cost much greater than the initial expenditure and much less efficiently . |
| 21 | Chlorine is relatively easy to measure I 'm sure you 'll all of done it at A level chemistry titration , silver nitrate ? |
| 22 | And er he 's already he 's already got you at a disadvantage , by er er you 're on the move and he 's waiting for you . |
| 23 | ‘ Look , I 've got you at a bad moment , sorry . |
| 24 | Beechams Pills could be bought one at a time in a spill for a penny . |
| 25 | This is unavoidable , but it means that you may get the impression that they are also used one at a time . |
| 26 | Now tell me what what you 've got one at a time , starting at this end . |
| 27 | These are then interpreted one at a time , on a rule of thumb basis . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | She alleged that the doctor had told her at a seminar that she desired Lozano . |
| 30 | But I had bought mine at a time when I 'd luckily accumulated some nice big fees , and she is just what I need , in every way . |