Example sentences of "[verb] [pers pn] at [adj] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is a moment that is likely to reshape the strategic thinking of traditional , print-on-paper publishers , perhaps encouraging them at last to re-define their activities and participate more extensively in information media of all kinds . |
| 2 | At school , the few masters who had noticed him at all had tried vaguely to direct him towards science . |
| 3 | , but if I do n't do it at half term it would be left to the end . |
| 4 | But the fact that Sarah had said it at all seemed to mean she thought they were very close friends . |
| 5 | You know the housing office If say you 've got need any repairs or anything , if you 've got any problems , do you do you use them at all do you go and go and see them ? |
| 6 | I would n't like it at all answered . |
| 7 | I would n't like it at all answered Lindy |
| 8 | Every time she saw him again after an absence she stood aside humbly , expecting him at last to have reached the age when she was an embarrassment , expecting him to shuffle his feet and colour and do no more than extend a cool hand , and she would have held none of this against him . |
| 9 | Similarly , science fiction motifs give way in this novel to fantasy elements which maintain it at one remove from realism but prevent it from falling into a generic category . |
| 10 | David Ware , president of the National Association of Estate Agents , said : ‘ It does not surprise me at all to hear estate agents are having problems . |
| 11 | The decision to keep it at 23 means fewer fixtures , less money and a greater likelihood of further clubs folding . |
| 12 | It 's interesting that if you have a machine wrapping biscuits at 50 a minute and it is increased to 70 a minute , the operators who have been doing it at 50 find it very difficult to adapt , but the new operators who come in at 70 cope with it easily . |
| 13 | True , they had been vassals of China for nine long centuries — but had n't their hearts " like iron and stone " enabled them at last to throw off the Chinese yoke when the Tang dynasty crumbled ? |
| 14 | better leave it at that had n't we ? |
| 15 | I thought further of the great fears that the rich must possess , of misfortunes that might reduce them at last to rejoin the human race . |
| 16 | Only as the cloverleaf began to appear as a grey shape in the otherwise black wall did I at last fall into a dream-wracked sleep . |
| 17 | Only when the water began to cool did she at last climb out and towel herself dry . |
| 18 | Only on his way home at lunchtime did he at last rouse himself enough to make a detour , and stop by at his brother 's apartment and invite Franco to come home with him for lunch . |
| 19 | It suited me at first to have you believe there was someone in my life . |
| 20 | It does not embarrass me at all to say that I did not approve of the principle of the community charge . |
| 21 | After I 'd kissed her goodbye I felt pretty happy because not only had I at last had an extremely enjoyable sexual experience , but I 'd also been able to give enjoyment . |
| 22 | He had no idea , for the letter forced him at last to admit to himself that he knew nothing about his son , that he had lost touch with him , had allowed him over the years to drift further and further away so that now they were virtual strangers . |
| 23 | Her great painful and ecstatic climaxes make us at last to know something the man has always wanted to know … |
| 24 | Have they at last had their day ? |
| 25 | It did n't help her at all to accept that this was by her own wish . |