Example sentences of "[pron] [noun] at an [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | My attempt at an inventory of the entire contents of a jacket pocket for 1959 . |
| 2 | You do think — is my career at an end ? |
| 3 | I could probably give you the best idea by saying that I conducted most of my tests at an output rating of only 8 watts per channel and that there was sufficient volume to overwhelm a large mammal . |
| 4 | In a surprise move the IPKF withdrew from Jaffna town on Jan. 27 , pitching their camp at an airfield some 20 km away . |
| 5 | Peter Dominic is converting its Bottoms Up branches into spacious wine superstores with Hunter & Oliver , its attempt at an identikit wine merchant , about to hit the high street . |
| 6 | He was irritated by a piece of smut on her cheek and started to wipe it off , and then pretended he had been stroking her , because he saw her distress at an emotion that she had guessed with her usual impossible correctness . |
| 7 | Maybe that was why he had left things unresolved , their talk at an impasse . |
| 8 | LESBIAN and gay delegates yesterday vented their anger at an attempt by the Labour leadership to abandon past conference calls to reduce the age of consent for homosexual acts from 21 to 16 . |
| 9 | Just as well , for with the state the country was in people would be wary of a stranger who 'd come knocking on their door at an hour when they might be warm and snug at the gates of dreamland . |
| 10 | Teenage farm workers are particularly sensitive to their image at an age when they are dating girls who may or may not hope for a better future than that of a farm worker 's wife . |
| 11 | The spitting cobras of Africa are capable of shooting their venom at an enemy from a distance of 6 feet , causing eye damage and severe pain . |
| 12 | Universities will accept applications mostly from youngsters who have done well in their in-depth subject , so 16-year-olds will still have to make the decision about their careers at an age when many are not ready , and two years before most other Europeans . |
| 13 | It 's just been announced that three hundred and thirty workers are to lose their jobs at an oil and gas extraction equipment factory . |
| 14 | With a savings-related share option scheme ( s 186 , ICTA 1988 ) , the company grants its employees an option to subscribe for its shares at an amount not less than 80% of their market value at that time . |
| 15 | At the beginning of August , Joseph was summoned to Lapwai by yet another commission desiring his settlement at an agency . |
| 16 | His presence at an exhibition devoted to the contemporary has taken many people by surprise … |
| 17 | Not even a special building was required , for since the Master was , as required by the will , a priest in Holy Orders singing masses for his patron at an altar in the Parish Church , it is entirely conceivable that the School 's first home was somewhere in that Church . |
| 18 | One of Britain 's top bodybuilders is to flex his muscles at an event in Hartlepool 's Town Hall Theatre . |
| 19 | He looks them over with his head at an angle and stuffs them in a drawer somewhere . |
| 20 | His Suff'rings at an End ; |
| 21 | Using a metal straight-edge ( clamp in place if you have a large frame ) hold your knife at an angle of 60° and score the card in easy strokes until you 've cut through . |
| 22 | Failing that , there is a chance that you might find someone sympathetic to your plight at an agency dealing with your particular model of computer . |
| 23 | So , if you are intercepting your track at an angle of 30° , you will wait until your RC has moved to a point where it is displaced 30° from the RC 0° to 030° or 330° . |