Example sentences of "[pron] [adj] at the [noun sg] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | It was claimed that soldiers on a British training exercise had been caught by a fearsome ‘ flame weapon ’ which had burned dozens of them alive at the water 's edge . |
| 2 | Victory for the Cherry and Whites could take them clear at the top of the Courage League , if Orrell and Leicester come unstuck . |
| 3 | ‘ We investigated , as we are obliged to , but found nothing wrong at the club . ’ |
| 4 | two hundred to my right at the back , at two hundred pounds thank you , six one O at two hundred pounds . |
| 5 | Someone concerned at the suffering might well think it more appropriate to work for reformation rather than abolition . |
| 6 | And I , and I mean it 'll be Terry and I available at the time cos I |
| 7 | But I remembered her asking whether I did n't go crazy on my own at The Pightle . |
| 8 | I was training on my own at the time , and seemed to be constantly injured , so I was n't racing much . |
| 9 | The time has come for us all to speak out , to make it clear that we are behind her in feeling that we need someone new at the helm . ’ |
| 10 | Equilibrium is at its lowest at the water 's surface and as pressure is exerted on the bladder its volume decreases which causes the fish to ‘ sink ’ . |
| 11 | Nigel had once made himself unpopular at the office by writing in his column that women past thirty should shoot themselves . |
| 12 | For instance , when the selectors were working at their hardest at the English and British Match-Play Championships — Joanne was feeling and playing far below her best because of a species of salmonella food poisoning . |
| 13 | Eb was making himself comfortable at the head of the table . |
| 14 | This was the first of the eight birdies Davies gathered , the best of all being her three at the 315-yard 13th hole , where she drove the green . |
| 15 | Then we 'll meet ye all at the Curragh Bar for a few good old jars , and then we 'll go on to the hotel . |
| 16 | Nevertheless the book does provide a detailed description of present practice and consumer views , against which those at the vanguard of community care developments could usefully compare their practice . |
| 17 | ‘ There is a tide in the affairs of man , which taken at the flood , leads on to … ’ heaven knows what and where . |
| 18 | On the other hand , Ken has been remembered and widely admired , not only by the Oxford Movement and their successors , as the noblest , most saintly and most charitable representative of the hundreds of Anglican clergy who had grown up under Puritan rule , sustained in their faith by the memory of King Charles the Martyr , ; they had come into their own at the Restoration but had later given up comfortable benefices to live in poverty , out of a scrupulous loyalty to a monarch to whose ecclesiastical ambitions they were utterly opposed . |
| 19 | The letter concluded : ‘ Convinced Nazis who are really inwardly certain of our final victory do n't seem to be too plentiful even among people who have otherwise courageously held their own at the Front . |
| 20 | line of type on its own at the top or bottom of a page . |
| 21 | At first sight , this seems to be an attractive move : holding hearings behind closed doors has led to accusations that the Institute is protecting its own at the expense of the public interest . |
| 22 | Its Studio Theatre has a life of its own at the forefront of creative theatre . |
| 23 | On her own at the till , Rachaela removed the extra pound and kept it . |
| 24 | We 've got one on her own at the end there , so . |
| 25 | She had dreaded the moment when the food would be done with and the others would get up to dance , leaving her on her own at the table . |
| 26 | By late March they were in Bologna , where Wolfgang was put through his paces by the famous theorist Padre Martini , who professed himself amazed at the boy 's ability to work out complex fugues on a brief given subject . |
| 27 | There was admittedly a fiki but he was very restrained and seemed anxious to keep himself invisible at the back . |
| 28 | She knew she was n't looking her best at the moment , but they looked the type to know quality when they saw it she thought , as she fluttered he awnings at them , colourless now , tattered and torn by the wind . |
| 29 | Her dreams were so vivid while the poem shimmered on her desk — signed , sealed , undelivered — that she had to catch herself from grabbing Lucy 's hands , kissing her right out in the street , holding her close at the end of each day , saying , come home , darling ; grabbing her and flinging her to the floor , ripping her clothes off , sinking into her breasts , fucking her like a sheet of flame . |
| 30 | As it was , the most she could hope for was his speedy return to Hong Kong , but for now she supposed she would just have to endure a certain amount of contact , as he had warned her earlier at the party just before leaving her with Cavell Fielding and Penny Seu Chen . |