Example sentences of "[pron] [vb -s] at [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Everyone stands at one end of the pool , and when it is time to start I swim to the end of the pool and come back . |
| 2 | Everyone stands at one end of the room with their eggs in front of them on the floor . |
| 3 | Everyone looks at each other , and somebody finally says : ‘ Floyd says you 'll drop dead in a year . ’ |
| 4 | Everyone looks at each other with the blank expression reserved especially for when someone who is off their trolley comes into the near vicinity . |
| 5 | Augmentations are worth searching out , for there is many a manor , grand house , or estate which has at one time been owned by an eminent person in receipt of an augmentation of one kind or another — and there is almost certainly a good tale to tell . |
| 6 | A child is not to be taken as having a learning difficulty solely because the language ( or form of the language ) in which he is or will be taught is different from a language ( or from of language ) which has at any time been spoken in the house . |
| 7 | that he or she is or has been a director of a company which has at any time become insolvent ( whether while he or she was a director or subsequently ) ; and |
| 8 | This chapter examines two aspects of organizational planning : the corporate plan , which usually covers a period of three to live years ; and the annual budget , which looks at one year of that plan in much greater detail . |
| 9 | Sources within the Stock Exchange confirmed yesterday that the sudden pre-bid surge in the traded options market is being examined by an insider dealing investigation team which looks at suspicious activity ahead of the release of price-sensitive information . |
| 10 | There is even a seasonal indicator which occurs at this time of year . |
| 11 | Occasionally , we have a picture which survives at some depth , such as this description of the work the smith owed his lord , the Archbishop of Canterbury , on the manor of Tangmere in 1285 : |
| 12 | It postulates that the actual rate of inflation which prevails at any moment in time may be decomposed into two constituent parts : ( a ) an expectational component , measured by the variable , ( b ) an excess demand component , measured , as in the Phillips-Lipsey model , by the magnitude of f(U) . |
| 13 | Partly this involves his audience in material which seems at first sight the familiar stuff of the music-hall chorus . |
| 14 | The art of task analysis always is to select what does matter , reject what does not matter and separate into categories or stages something which seems at first sight to have no internal boundaries . |
| 15 | But there was another element in the creation of its unusual nature , one which appears at first sight a source of significant weakness rather than strength . |
| 16 | The new channel was dredged to about 10.3 metres below high water ordinary spring tide which means at low water of the same tide approximately 5.5 metres of water was available . |
| 17 | There is no easy solution to this one , other than doing the first ones at a safe altitude , which means at some speed since it is difficult to fly slowly at any height or distance . |
| 18 | Anyone wanting to join has to apply and needs a two-thirds vote in favour to be allowed in , ’ says Mr Smythe , who lives at Green Bank , Heighington , near Darlington . |
| 19 | Her mother who lives at nearby Bowleymead is estranged from her husband Richard Yates . |
| 20 | Conversely , where existing competition is light and the traditional catchment area of the firm large , a wide restraint may be expected to be upheld ; and ( 4 ) a prohibition against accepting instructions from any person who has at any time , or over a long period , been a client of the outgoing partner 's former firm . |
| 21 | Yours will most probably be the arms she needs at this point , and the best thing you can do for her is to show that you share her grief , and that as far as possible you are going to be the rock on which she can lean while the sands of her life are shifting so frighteningly beneath her feet . |
| 22 | As far as I can read her argument , it is precisely this which allows recognition of it to model our human position as suspended between , as she says at another point , unconditioned actor … and conditioned agent . " |
| 23 | In The Lord of the Rings it can be expressed by such high-status characters as Faramir , who says at one point that he does not hope to see Frodo ever again , but nevertheless invents a picture of them in an unknown future ‘ sitting by a wall in the sun , laughing at grief ’ . |
| 24 | Although Joffre , who seems at this time not to have been in touch with military reality , even now expected his left wing to advance and halt the invasion . |
| 25 | The bolas spider spins a single filament which she weights at one end with a drop of glue . |
| 26 | Now Michael White and John Gribbin have given us Stephen Hawking : a Life in Science , or rather Mr White has given us the life and Mr Gribbin the science ; the latter is awash with black holes , white dwarfs , protons , pulsars , quasars and quarks and is therefore no more comprehensible than Brief History ; also , what is one to make of a writer who speaks at one moment of ‘ tiny black holes ’ and the next of ‘ black holes which could eat solar systems for breakfast ’ ? |
| 27 | It 's a question of who decides at this point in time with the government that 's making the decision that the workers in this country have to accept lower standards in almost anything not just wages and terms of conditions , now safety standards . |
| 28 | She decides at this point in the story , that nothing is too bad for those people who have tried to humiliate her throughout her life . |
| 29 | She talks at great length before the title track of her album , ‘ 360 Degrees Of Power ’ about how African men should n't go with ‘ the other woman ’ , meaning white women . |
| 30 | Although pain is the dominant feeling she experiences at that moment , it is a pain that simultaneously makes her angry with the male , and she swipes out at him . |