Example sentences of "[pron] [noun] at [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | He was having it off with me sister at one time . |
2 | In 1769 1,375 people were at work on it , many of them prisoners at forced labour . |
3 | ‘ We all read Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee . |
4 | SO WROTE Stephen Vincent Benet , who also penned the immortal line ‘ Bury my heart at Wounded Knee . ’ |
5 | My income at that time was mainly from prints . |
6 | As head of an academic department ( Economics ) at McGill University , he had interested himself in student publications in the various universities across Canada , and he had some kind things to say about my attempts at humorous prose in the weekly ‘ Adventures of Dizzy Dick ’ . |
7 | Erm my recommendation at that price would be to say to you , do n't buy , not at four thousand pounds , when your rent is one hundred pounds a year . |
8 | I listened but if it 's of no evidential value there is no point in listening because I 've got so much on my mind at that time erm to sort out that threat in there that I certainly ca n't recall what was exactly said or even along the lines of what was said . |
9 | The world does funny things but I can tell you that 's the furthest thing from my mind at this point in time . |
10 | Sad , nostalgic , the countryside had hardly changed and , if I closed my eyes at certain parts , I was back with Master Benjamin and all those people , now long dead , travelling to a place where conspiracy , treason and sudden death became part of the very fabric of our lives . |
11 | I lay silently , expecting my grandfather to materialize in front of my eyes at any moment . |
12 | I could try and describe to you the expression in my eyes at this moment ; but they are far too discoloured with rage . |
13 | I thought I had the right build for it , and my footwork at that age was pretty neat . |
14 | In Damascus he would have loved baiting Marwan , the AP reporter , with Nick ; at the Comedy Store he would have laughed at the idea of the song someone had written for him — ‘ The Hills are Alive with the Sound of Bullets ’ ; , and my début at live interviews would have provided another entry for his file of great lines . |
15 | Also on the limestone , I Should Coco , E5 6b , the line of four bolts right of Snails Ate My Lampshade at Bent Tor — first ascent by Pete Cresswell and Cathy Duffill . |
16 | A cat dashed over my feet at one point and I began to think about the disembodied hand in the film . |
17 | ‘ It was tough at the start but I knew I had to hang on to my serve at all costs , ’ she said afterwards . |
18 | I 'm looking to select patients who have a high pressure and a low flow and for the sake of this study I 've drawn my lines at fifty centimetres of water for detrusor pressure during voiding and , and er fifteen mils per second . |
19 | He conducted detailed negotiations with a consortium of the four clearing banks and , enlisting my assistance at occasional meetings , contrived an arrangement with them that made the economics a possibility , while , I have to confess , retaining some attraction for the banks . |
20 | Maybe it was because I 'd seen Ronnie Lane of The Faces — who was my hero at that age — wearing a pair on TV . |
21 | I wanted it to look as Gibson EB3-ish as possible , Jack Bruce being my hero at that point . |
22 | Given the number of days I 've spent wandering around the rain-sodden Moelwyns cursing Gore-Tex , my delight at this garment is quite understandable . |
23 | What is on my desk at this moment ? |
24 | I wrote to my parents at that address for the next three years . |
25 | No , the presence of my parents at any gig does n't guarantee a feeling of ease , because my mother is very critical of what I do , particularly anything outside a classical genre . |
26 | I lost my footing at one point and collected a few bruises . |
27 | I did n't draw my weapon at any time whilst I was in the flat . |
28 | I must have poured out my troubles at such length , and he must have put to me a sufficient number of searching questions , that , before we had drawn breath , the afternoon was already far advanced . |
29 | It is merely my desire that you complete your studies and take up a form of employ that may be useful for my purposes at some time in the future . |
30 | I had no reason to suppose that the letter was anything but genuine — it was on the shipping company 's notepaper , and , insofar as such recollections are of any value , the signature at first glance was in keeping with the signature I remembered vaguely from my days at Upper Thames Street . |