Example sentences of "[pron] at [adj] [noun sg] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 've got a bit of a conflict of interest here straightaway because the actual case that Roy is talking about is actually my brother and I at this moment have been complaining to the Lloyds Policy Unit in respect of erm this particular policy , because the company that was actually trading went into liquidation . |
| 2 | Someone at general command had a great idea , a cheap-rate sequel to GI Blues in which a young Scottish footballer plays the part of a handsome conscript . |
| 3 | A tape recording , taken by someone at that meeting suggests that an agreement was made to compensate the disillusioned traders . |
| 4 | Someone at Head Office needs to do a quick bit of thinking here : to couple an outstanding Appalachian Spring with this twaddle is not only an insult to Dennis Russell Davies and his superb musicians , but also to the prospective purchaser of this disc . |
| 5 | She was so much a daughter of the vicarage in accent , manner , and appearance ( her father had been a clergyman ) that without being told I had assumed , seeing evidence in Mrs Browning 's home that someone at some time had lived in a hot country , that her husband had been a missionary . |
| 6 | They had no other Dutch communities to look to ; they kept their own language for over a century and the switch of allegiance from one ruler to another was one that nobody at that time found at all difficult . |
| 7 | Nobody at fine leg appealed for lbw or for a catch , but now everybody does , and I do n't know why this is . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ There is still a long way to go , though , and nobody at this club forgets that , two seasons ago , Aberdeen made up a ten-point deficit and took Rangers to the last day of the season before they ( Rangers ) won the title . ’ |
| 9 | Somebody 's car alarm 's gone off no , right , now this where lots and lots of people used to really moan , the , the person that was having a fit would absolutely go through hell because somebody at some stage had said oh you must put something in a person 's mouth that has epilepsy . |
| 10 | The Christian Democrats ( Christlich-Demokratische Union — CDU ) and the Free Democratic Party ( Freie Demokratische Partei — FDP ) , which at federal level formed the governing coalition , each lost around 4 per cent of the vote as compared with March 1985 . |
| 11 | ‘ It seems possible to place France in the company of those countries — Germany and the US included — which at mid century experienced a ‘ railway Kondratieff ’ with emphatic growth-industry capabilities ’ ( Trebilcock , 1981 ) . |
| 12 | However , by careful reading of the footnote , a manuscript was found in the Harleian Collection of the British Library which dated from 1599 and gave details of the armorial panels which at that date existed . |
| 13 | A large shaft station was blasted out at the rock shaft at Deep Level ( see Fig. 14 ) and the work revealed a bonus in the form of a nice bunch of ore on a narrow quartz vein — Dry Gill Vein — which at that point runs approximately parallel to the Bonsor Vein . |
| 14 | Yet he is not to die : at the very last moment the image jumps slightly and then we note Custer 's singular absence at the centre of the famous circle , which at that moment begins to break up . |
| 15 | Most backbenchers probably appreciated the force of the argument which at that stage had to remain unspoken ’ … we were not ready [ for a General Strike ] , ’ he subsequently told G. M. Young . |
| 16 | It also incorporated " modest savings " anticipated from the reform of the CAP ( the exact terms of which at that stage had still to be agreed ) , but the Financial Times of May 22 warned that " this picture could easily change " . |
| 17 | From this it was only a short step to total involvement in folk culture , and his ability to play the gipsy violin led him to join the Gyorgyos Bokreta group , which at that time offered a programme of traditional songs and dances from the Bata region . |
| 18 | Another casualty of this bombing raid was the Royal West of England School for the Deaf at Exeter , which at that time had seemed a safe haven , not only for the children of the area the school served , but also for the 52 children and staff of the Anerley School for the Deaf , London , who had been evacuated there on 14th September 1939 . |
| 19 | It was designed and constructed by one of the new generation of civil engineers , M. Lang , in a form that presages early Victorian railway architecture , which at that time had not yet appeared . |
| 20 | Unfavourable reaction to the Commission 's Report led to the first ever national conference in Great Britain of Adult Deaf and Dumb Missions and Associations , which at that time numbered upwards of thirty-six . |
| 21 | Although Peter Handford had intended to return to the Bath side of the tunnel at night to make recordings of the several trains which at that time ran from the north towards Bournemouth in the early hours of Saturday morning , he did not do so , partly because he was reluctant to visit the place in darkness and also because each time he visited Winsor Hill tunnel to make recordings he experienced problems and misfortunes of one sort or another . |
| 22 | On Maundy Thursday , I had ceased to be a member of the top class Infants and now entered the Boys School , which at that time catered for seven to fourteen year olds — the latter being school leaving age . |
| 23 | When the Dada brochure , Cabaret Voltaire , was published in June 1916 it was ‘ a catch-all for the most diverse directions in art which at that time seemed to us to constitute ‘ Dada ’ . ’ |
| 24 | Pagina , a move which at that time necessitated his resignation from Canterbury . |
| 25 | The Moghul Empire , which at that time covered the northern two-thirds of the Indian subcontinent , was at its most impressive ; these were the decades of the Taj Mahal , the Red Fort at Delhi , and also of an attempt by the Muslim rulers of India to conciliate the Hindu majority . |
| 26 | I decided to commit myself to the revolution and in January 1981 , went to the Frente Paracentral , which at that time covered parts of the Departments of Cabanas . |
| 27 | Chamoun was leader of his own National Liberal Party , which at that time included a number of conservative Shia and Sunni political leaders . |
| 28 | They too are planted by machine but , unlike maincrop potatoes , they are lifted by hand to avoid the risk of damage to their skins which at that time have not ‘ set ’ . |
| 29 | Wondering what we had let ourselves in for we anchored as near as possible to Ullapool and contacted the local staff which at that time consisted of local patrol officers backed up by two visiting officers from Dingwall . |
| 30 | Mine had been a decade earlier when Marcel Marceau removed my hands from behind my back ; hands , which at that period did n't resemble hands at all , but strawberry coloured boxing gloves . |