Example sentences of "[pron] [adj] at the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 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 | 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 . ’ |
| 8 | Nigel had once made himself unpopular at the office by writing in his column that women past thirty should shoot themselves . |
| 9 | Eb was making himself comfortable at the head of the table . |
| 10 | ‘ There is a tide in the affairs of man , which taken at the flood , leads on to … ’ heaven knows what and where . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | There was admittedly a fiki but he was very restrained and seemed anxious to keep himself invisible at the back . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | It seemed to me obvious at the time that to be a child was safer and easier than to be adult and that , specifically , to be a girl was safer and easier than to be a woman . |
| 15 | What time you due at the hairdresser , quarter to ? |
| 16 | Are you free at the weekend ? ’ |
| 17 | What are you curly at the back ? |
| 18 | You okay at the moment ? |
| 19 | It is as well that she has chosen to stay with you this evening because there is no way I will leave you alone at the farm . ’ |
| 20 | Were you aware at the time that it was a small house ? |
| 21 | Not only was she exultant at the thought of a holiday in London , but she would also have a week removed from the constant worry of Gareth Davis . |
| 22 | The baby 's first worldly experience of nonverbal communication , however , is usually the touch of the midwife 's or obstetrician 's hands or sometimes the mother 's hands and everyone present at the delivery is relieved to hear the initial cry , the first verbal communication . |
| 23 | It MIGHT make them tired at the end of the season — but the confidence they would gain would more than compensate . |
| 24 | These are not recognised by the elder as a social error ( something possible at the level of practical consciousness ) nor as having hazardous consequences ( which perhaps requires verbal consciousness ) . |
| 25 | When polls are adverse there 's a tendency to say there 's something wrong at the top . |
| 26 | Now , let's get something clear at the beginning . |
| 27 | Something simple at the start . |
| 28 | It may reflect something disturbing at the heart of western modernity and rationality . |
| 29 | Mr Deane was not the only one shocked at the treatment of the children . |
| 30 | There was no one available at the Association Headquarters to comment on the refusal . |