Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] [noun pl] at the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I made visits at the most relevant times during the appraisal , in particular whilst the inspection was under way , so that I could observe the effect it was having on staff . |
| 2 | So I made enquiries at the hall . |
| 3 | When I found out the identity of the person owning or occupying the flat at I made enquiries at the police station 's department in that office erm they they keep records of any , any information about persons in the area and beyond . |
| 4 | ‘ I was always the top broker at any firm I worked for on Wall Street and before that I sold memberships at the Museum of Modern Art . |
| 5 | In the evening , I meet friends at the Devonshire for a drink . |
| 6 | Hoddle says I shook hands at the end and I 'll see you on New Year 's Day . |
| 7 | My reporting for the Times-Herald under the avuncular guidance of Fred Workman ran the whole spectrum of events , incidents and activities : I spent days at the annual Wild West Rodeo and Stampede absorbing as much of the cowboy lingo as possible ; I acted as Master of Ceremonies for a fox trot competition sponsored by Cal Temple and Trudie , his business-like wife ; I interviewed all visiting celebrities including MacKenzie King , the Prime Minister , and R.B. Bennett , the Leader of the Opposition in Ottawa ; I interviewed Jimmy Gardiner as Minister of Agriculture , after he gave up his post as Premier of Saskatchewan ; I covered celebrity concerts and the annual Chatauqua programmes , among many other things . |
| 8 | I remember arguments at the beginning of 1991 about the precise number . |
| 9 | I find comparisons at the moment impossible to contemplate as this reading is so shattering as to rule out any other . |
| 10 | Not only did I have loops at the edge , but seven or eight stitches actually leapt off the needles . |
| 11 | They are but not as I saw things at the time — I did n't think I would marry . |
| 12 | ‘ I have friends at the UFA film studios here in Berlin . |
| 13 | I have nerves at the start of every game but they soon disappear . |
| 14 | I have nerves at the start of every game but they soon disappear . |
| 15 | A : I work nights at the moment , so I do n't have much free time . |
| 16 | Hospitals and financial services organisations are ones in which trust lies at the heart of the relationship and they will provide rich ground for exploring a variety of trusting relationships and testing out practical ideas about how trust is developed , maintained and improved . |
| 17 | What is wrong , however , is the comparison which places universities at the top because they are thought to be concerned with the abstract and academic , polytechnics below , because of their more technological emphasis ( which is itself , as often as not , a myth ) , and which deems schools to be worth considering only if they are seen as primarily devoted to academic ‘ standards ’ , imposed from above by the universities themselves . |
| 18 | Edison 's first machine was the ‘ tinfoil phonograph ’ ( 1 ) , in which sound waves at the mouthpiece vibrated a diaphragm , and created undulations in a stretched layer of tinfoil wrapped round a cylindrical drum . |
| 19 | The move follows a recent incident in which promenade chalets at the resort were damaged and concern has been voiced that the troublemakers could hit summer trade . |
| 20 | In Edna O'Brien 's A Pagan Place , which followed Veterans at the Royal Court in 1972 , Eyre drew from a 16-year-old school girl called Veronica Quilligan , who had never acted before , a performance of exquisite subtlety and emotional truth . |
| 21 | More sharply tuned is the Bridged-T trap ( Fig. 3 ) , which eliminates signals at the resonant LC frequency when R is correctly adjusted . |
| 22 | This was in evidence at Spitalfields and again during Dr Owen Beattie 's 1981–6 examination of three seamen from the Franklin Arctic expedition of 1845–8 , particularly the corpse of John Torrington ( d. 1846 ) which had ties at the elbows , wrist , ankles and big toes . |
| 23 | Cement was loaded into barges via chutes which had shutters at the lower end . |
| 24 | Any phenomenology of experience must address the way in which experience stands at the moment where internal fantasies cross the threshold of cultural categories . |
| 25 | Glynwed International ran on 10 to 273p , Fisons gained 15 to 384p , Guardian Royal Exchange gained 6 to 142p and Kwik Save , which reports figures at the end of the month , was up from 573p to 588p . |
| 26 | As Mr Tony Banks MP has said , ‘ Television should broaden peoples knowledge about parliamentary affairs and the performance of the Government and Opposition , and give them a better base on which to make judgements at the time of the election ’ . |
| 27 | Afterwards , Ken told him : ‘ Never give me dialogue and ask me to handle props at the same time . ’ |
| 28 | Not that you met girls at the Strathmore . |
| 29 | I am tempted to accept the Minister 's explanation of his motivation , but those in my constituency , one of the poorest in the country , who made claims at the time of the reforms found it more difficult to obtain any decent benefits from the system . |
| 30 | Her abdomen is swollen into a white heaving sausage , I 2 centimetres long , from which she produces eggs at the almost unbelievable rate of 30,000 a day . |