Example sentences of "[pron] [vb -s] [pron] at the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Therapist Julia Blackburn 's heart sinks when someone visits her at The Maidenhead Natural Therapy Clinic and says , ‘ I 've tried a grapefruit diet , a pineapple diet , a very low-calorie diet , and now I 've come to see whether hypnotherapy might work . ’ |
| 2 | I mean we 've still got a barren at the back , somebody kicks you at the back on that barren and er in the skeleton that 's exactly like the barren in a monkey 's tail |
| 3 | All is filtered through Hoving 's glass , which magnifies himself at the expense of his colleagues . |
| 4 | This was Il Giasone ( 1649 ) which shows him at the height of his powers in the melodious aria with violin imitations ( e.g. Jason 's ‘ Delizie contente ’ , Act I , SC.2 ) , in drama ( e.g. Medea 's conjuration , Act I , sc . |
| 5 | She wants me at the birth . |
| 6 | Every day she meets him at the well , and every day he repeats the same request , till at last she yields . |
| 7 | The work was paralleled by a similar focus on private sector ‘ gatekeepers ’ : senior managers such as estate agents and landlords again being seen of critical importance in who gets what at the ‘ urban ’ level . |
| 8 | Therefore he is asking for trouble , and he receives it suddenly and in full measure , above the groundswell of heckling , at the hands of a divinity student who reminds him at the top of his voice about Fedka , a dangerous escaped convict now roaming ‘ our town ’ and originally a serf of Stepan 's whom he sold into military service to pay a gambling debt : |
| 9 | Er , but councillor other remark about the labour party moving towards the conservatives is of course a very fair one , but then surely nothing surprises us at the moment about the labour party . |
| 10 | At rest the cricket looks like a dead leaf , but it transforms itself at the last moment . |
| 11 | I 'll go and phone him , put ten P in the phone and he rings me at the phone box . |
| 12 | I do n't mind how many times he rings you at the phone box . |
| 13 | It is not a happy precedent and if Mr Major is to avoid it , he needs somebody at the Treasury who commands confidence , and who deserves it . |
| 14 | When he greets me at the door , he is still wearing an apron , after ‘ helping out ’ in the attached tea shop which he runs ‘ as a bit of a hobby ’ . |
| 15 | He tells us at the beginning of his book that he is an Aristotelean in these matters , but the price he pays is that his definition simply fails to bear upon the intuitive criteria for an explication of consciousness , such as those set out above . |
| 16 | The flute adds brightness to oboe , clarinet , bassoon , and horn when it doubles them at the octave . |
| 17 | That is , he does nothing , he does nothing at the moment but prepares for action , or he takes action . |
| 18 | You know he likes you at the table punctually . ’ |
| 19 | What worries me at the moment about the proposals is that there is discrimination not only against the United Kingdom but against Europe in the way in which the Commission is carrying out the negotiations with the United States . |
| 20 | ‘ Money is my motivation , but what keeps me at the top is that I 'm petrified of losing . |
| 21 | Yeah , I guess it depends on what titillates you at the end of the day . |
| 22 | What inspires him at the moment is the once-in-a-lifetime trip to the US that he has organised for 40 Lebanese orphans . |