Example sentences of "[subord] [verb] [pers pn] at " in BNC.
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| 1 | The disorder that had seemed to him for decades to determine the course of events regrouped itself like a pile of iron filings suddenly organized by a magnet , and he had a flash of optimism when it appeared quite possible that men in the days to come might wish to find out more than concerned them at the moment . |
| 2 | I have 200m shares , nothing would please me more than to see them at £1 each . ’ |
| 3 | It must also be remembered that death usually took place in the home , not only because nineteenth century parents preferred it , but also because , before the development of antisepsis in practical nursing in the last quarter of the century , to send a patient to hospital was much more likely to prove fatal than keeping him at home . |
| 4 | Not surprisingly , it costs less for New York and New Jersey to send their rubbish halfway across America than to tip it at home . |
| 5 | And it is convenient to consider him as an entrepreneur even with respect to the resource he owns ( in the sense that , in using it for his own production process , rather than selling it at its market price to other producers , he is ‘ buying ’ it at an implicit cost ) . |
| 6 | I like it when you 've got the FX actually going through the amplifier , rather than adding it at the desk , because there 's a certain quality and tonality when everything 's going through that guitar speaker . |
| 7 | Surely this is the moment when the strong west should be able to offer a hand of assistance to those countries , rather than holding them at arm 's length while it completes its own internal workings . |
| 8 | ‘ Than calling you at the office . ’ |
| 9 | My friend is not simply explaining why , for good or bad reasons , he did decide to go to the Park ( as he might after the event , in which case it would be no objection to his explanation that when he got there the zoo turned out to be closed ) ; he is defending his decision to go to the Park rather than meet me at his house , and I can still try to change his mind . |
| 10 | But I , but I think you know the , the , the thing that I found erm most difficult as you say was , was actually completing the C C Q and I think part of it and asking the question but it is , certainly it would be easier to do it using that on your knee rather than doing it at the table because I was aware that I was turning away |
| 11 | State enterprises had been hoarding goods rather than sell them at unprofitable retail prices , thereby exacerbating shortages in the shops [ see p. 37902 ] . |
| 12 | Frank Grimwood showed no sign of moving , or even of lifting his eyes from his plate , except to flick them at Kennedy who was standing by the door . |
| 13 | Rather than commit you at this stage to the costs of detailed accounting , due diligence and contract drafting , which may subsequently prove to be abortive , MAS would intend performing a short key features review devised to highlight potential deal breaking points and other inevitably contentious issues ( such as possible earn-out terms ) which will need to be resolved with the vendors prior to proceeding . |
| 14 | Europa Europa , on the other hand , holds Solomon 's predicament up for our detached scrutiny , rather than involving us at gut level . |
| 15 | By the time word got out that the whole thing had been a spoof , there was a sizeable demand for the book and , rather than leave it at that , Jean Shepard was persuaded to write the book proper . |
| 16 | Made up of three National Certificate Modules , each cluster is designed to encourage students , especially those in schools , to take coherent groups of modules , rather than choosing them at random . |
| 17 | She 'd do anything rather than drive it at first . |
| 18 | the sad news for golfers is that you 've a better chance of watching the sport than playing it at the Oxfordshire club … membership is being limited to 750 and the joining fee is twenty five thousand pounds … |
| 19 | However , if he suspects that the adventurers are here to cause harm to his Master , he 'll die rather than help them at all . |
| 20 | Pascoe peered at the drink before putting the glass to his lips , as if drinking it at all was a risky thing . |
| 21 | Have chips no more than twice a week and if preparing them at home have them cut very thick . |
| 22 | While watching him at work she impulsively asked to borrow his materials and followed his advice to give her imagination free rein . |
| 23 | Whether to marry or pursue a career ; when to have children — or , indeed , whether to have them at all ; whether and when to return to work after the children are born ; whether to continue working or stay at home and look after an aged relative — the problems for today 's woman are endless . |
| 24 | ‘ I never know whether to take you at your word , Lavinia . |
| 25 | A regularly travelled long straight hill has a road sign at the bottom , now , when passing it at 50 mph , the Land Rover tops on the hill at 44 mph as opposed to 39 on two or four star fuel . |
| 26 | When sentencing him at Oxford Crown Court today , Judge Leo Clarke described it as a motiveless and shocking attack . |
| 27 | ‘ Caroline looked after Queen Of Shannon as well as riding her at home . |
| 28 | It is boring , often done in locations where it is difficult to avoid ‘ bosses ’ , it affords only a limited range of ‘ bluffs ’ or easing techniques , and is looked down upon by regular policemen and women , a view unintentionally reinforced by those sergeants who apologize to regulars when asking them at parade to do sanger duty . |