Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] [pron] at a " in BNC.

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1 One of the lads asked me at a dance how I had earned my living before I had got married .
2 At first the books came one at a time .
3 David played it at a soundcheck and when I asked him if it was about Shaun he just smiled and then denied it .
4 When we moved from Freiberg , Rebecca followed us at a distance .
5 conclude on the basis of recent work on tachistoscopic word recognition that , at least with single-syllable words exposed one at a time to left or right visual hemifield , artefacts due to directional scanning contribute little if anything to hemifield asymmetry .
6 The second exception was established in Tuberville v. Stamp where it was held that liability extended to a fire originating in a field as much as to one beginning in a house , but if the defendant kindles it at a proper time and place and the violence of the wind carry it to his neighbour 's land , that is fit to be given in evidence .
7 The ruling DEMOS coalition dissolved itself at a meeting on Dec. 30 , and called for early elections in April or May 1992 .
8 The ‘ pure ’ entrepreneur observes the opportunity to sell something at a price higher than that at which he can buy it .
9 For managers , the issue manifests itself at a more procedural level , and is now revolving around resource management .
10 ‘ You do n't see a carpenter saying he wo n't build a house because he does n't like what 's next door and he 's going to wait until there 's a house with 8.3 rooms and the sun has it at a certain angle and then he 'll pound his nails and he wants billing above the plumber . ’
11 They want management to trust them at a distance .
12 Cornelius found himself at a door .
13 It needs a powerful machine to run it at a reasonable speed but even if you do n't have such a machine you need to know about it as a sign of things to come .
14 Tero followed them at a distance , watching her new friend with sorrowful anxious eyes .
15 Where the SPRU team takes us at a brisk trot through the literature , Jan Zimmerman adopts more of a wild canter in her survey of the likely effects on women of a range of new technologies , in a piece that makes up in polemic what it lacks in argument .
16 When one of his own officials insulted him at a Leeds meeting Mosley knocked him unconscious .
17 ‘ Is your sister expecting you at a specific time ? ’ asked Penry when they were on the way to Haverfordwest at last .
18 Georgiades had asked Owen to meet him at a donkey-vous beside the Ezbekiya Gardens .
19 The friend found one at a garage .
20 Duke reckoned it at a mile and three-quarters ; the most conservative estimates put it at over a mile .
21 Like the ecu note Europe has never had , the CFA-franc note can be used anywhere in the zone , and the French guarantee to convert it at a rate of 50 CFA francs to one French franc .
22 If you have n't read it you will have ample chance to read it at a later date and if you have , you would know what I was going to say .
23 As Calum Davidson of Highlands & Islands Enterprise put it at a recent Open Forum conference , ‘ In the south of Scotland , in Silicon Glen , the Scottish workforce use their skills to produce IT equipment for their world .
24 In spite of this , innovation by individuals and communities of farmers in Africa will continue , and for the most part will enable rural families to maintain themselves at a reasonable level of nutrition .
25 AJR procedure incorporates certain procedural protections for public bodies and the rule that a claimant asserting public law interests can only use AJR procedure puts him at a disadvantage which is justifiable only on the assumption that public law interests do not matter as much as private law rights and , therefore , do not deserve as much legal protection .
26 The latest phase obliges vehicles delivering a wide range of food products to keep them at a temperature of no more than 8C .
27 They also included the operation of ‘ stand down , ’ by which the airline retained scarce skills by allowing people to work elsewhere on part pay but having the opportunity to recall them at a month 's notice .
28 From the point of view of an application system carrying out final plausibility checks , CLE- I logical forms emerge one at a time , with no scoring information attached , and the application must decide which one to accept using an essentially binary , absolute plausibility test .
29 A WOMAN flung herself at a mugger and bit off his right ear when he snatched her bag in Milan .
30 ‘ He has no manners , eats like a peasant , talks like he needs salt on his marrow , and is as free with his smile as a tinker cheating you at a fair on a saint 's day .
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