Example sentences of "[pron] [noun sg] at the [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It seemed only a matter of days before I was standing astride my bike at the gates of Sonning Common , together with my good friend Richard Smith ( who I think was twice as mad as me as he did n't have to do it ! ) |
| 2 | Duncan at L.A.B. dropped off my gear at the shops as he did n't have my address , when I went to get it only half was handed over . |
| 3 | I must express my disgust at the Cats Protection League Darlington blacklisting Coundon . |
| 4 | Needless to say , I walked out of my job at the kennels . |
| 5 | Then I would be an artisan , quietly learning my trade at the feet of a master and passing it on in turn to my apprentices . |
| 6 | I do think that the struggle for national liberation , certainly in my country at the times when we were most successful in that struggle , were the times when more opportunities were opened up for my own liberation and my own freedom of choice as a woman . |
| 7 | Laverne looks over my shoulder at the clouds , because it is easier than confronting his own oozing paint . |
| 8 | Without such pressure even my execution at the hands of the Khad was a possibility … your efforts and support greatly encouraged me and my family , for when I came to know of them I was indeed strengthened by them . ’ |
| 9 | I spend much of my time at the shops ; wandering through the aisles , faltering , never knowing what to buy . |
| 10 | Nearly all felt their experience at the hospitals , to which they were initially referred , to be stigmatizing and degrading . |
| 11 | They are Alexander the Great ; the Silver Shields ( a Macedonian corps d'élite of the early hellenistic period ) ; and the Spartans up to the date of their defeat at the hands of the Thebans at Leuktra in 371 . |
| 12 | Many Arabs , including many who are nominally members of the anti-Saddam coalition , can not conceal their glee at the attacks on Israel . |
| 13 | Newton Aycliffe 's Christine Brunskill also avenged her defeat at the hands of Middlesbrpugh and Cleveland Harrier Marie Stansmore . |
| 14 | " Goodbye , " said this kindly decent woman , her distress at the ways of this wicked world written all over her . |
| 15 | Even many voters who dislike and fear the Labour Party are tempted to register their disgust at the Tories ' failures by voting Liberal Democrat . |
| 16 | Although they registered their disapproval at the MPs ' vote with the Government , the council group leader , Richard Lyle , said : ‘ Alex Salmond has the clear backing of the Motherwell SNP council group as does the SNP parliamentary group . |
| 17 | The court was told that all three were now grown up , with the girls 27 and 31 , and had only just revealed their ordeal at the hands of their stepfather . |
| 18 | The 20C has not been kind to the Jews and the community in Prague has never recovered from its suffering at the hands of the Nazis . |
| 19 | After her small bedroom at home , where beloved old ornaments belonging once to her mother jostled for space with a basket of ironing she had n't yet had time for , and nursing textbooks that would n't fit on her one small bookshelf , or her room at the nurses ' home , where exotic travel posters — gleaned from a travel agent next to her father 's hardware shop — could n't disguise the institutional plainness of the furnishings , this room seemed palatial . |
| 20 | It had n't taken her long to clear out her room at the nurses ' home this morning , and her father had come over at lunch to take several boxes of things back to his suburban home for storage . |
| 21 | Vince has has raised a point about er erm , informing er and consulting local people and to let local people know erm when the meetings are then local ca n't go , I 'm sure that if they really wanted people to come they 'd make it much more er , in erm with the advertising so clear that er people would be able to and also if they had it at the times when a their meeting at the times when it was mostly convenient to er , the general public . |
| 22 | Andrea Whitcombe led almost from start to finish to retain her title at the Women 's National Cross-Country Championships at Birkenhead . |
| 23 | Christopher 's outstretched right hand was running slowly through her hair , touching her head at the roots and pulling the hair outwards so that it fell back like a fan . |
| 24 | It is not only the soldiers who express in East German television programmes their outrage at the revelations of corruption of former political leaders . |
| 25 | Last week , the Montgomery County ( Maryland ) chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People ( NAACP ) , tired of waiting for the police to solve the case and for NIH to comment on the report , held a press conference to express its outrage at the events of the past seven months and to demand that the lives of those affected ‘ be made whole ’ . |
| 26 | Instead he stumbles on America , setting up a colony of fornicating drunks who deservedly get their come-uppance at the hands of the Indians they mistreat in the name of Christianity . |
| 27 | She taught in a health club ; aerobics , that kind of thing , and the next we knew she was wearing hot pants on a street corner in New York and strutting her stuff at the cars . |
| 28 | Three hours later , two thousand feet above the Mediterranean , Miranda , alert and exultant , sat next to her instructor at the controls of a trainer plane , an ugly little single-engine Rallye which her instructor described as efficient and forgiving : you could do something wrong m a Rallye without getting immediately punished for it . |
| 29 | Calero gave their motto at the hearings , quoting Benjamin Franklin : |
| 30 | Reasonably enough , newly elected or re-elected presidents interpret their success at the polls as a mandate to move the country in new directions . |