Example sentences of "[verb] at [pos pn] [num ord] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If your client is in a trade , say baking , then you must deal with his trade journals , Clients are sensitive enough about what is said about them in the consumer press but when negatives appear in their own trade journal , the sparks fly at your next client meeting . |
| 2 | I managed to film this without Mr Bolt Head noticing at our last meeting . |
| 3 | Now , gentle reader , I expect at my third reference to you as ‘ gentle reader ’ you 're starting to feel rather less than gentle towards me . |
| 4 | Niyazov had been leader of the republican Communist Party until it was dissolved at its 25th Congress on Dec. 16 , 1991 , and then became leader of the ruling Democratic Party of Turkmenistan . |
| 5 | Graham looks at his third can of beer thoughtfully . |
| 6 | Before her eyes arose a memory of how he had looked at her last night . |
| 7 | However , I have to confess that as you were a new arrival and not one of us into the bargain , I thought I should glance at your first letter or two home … |
| 8 | The question of a regional convention in this whole field was put on the agenda of the Committee in 1975 and detailed reports were considered at its Twentieth Session in 1979 and its Twenty-Second Session in 1981 . |
| 9 | Roughs , based on my general knowledge of the subject , were presented at my first meeting with the ‘ team ’ and accepted in principle . |
| 10 | He had been defeated at his first attempt in 1685 , and in 1689 petitioned the Commons against Tory violence at the hustings . |
| 11 | Only ‘ cause looking at your first question : do you use public transport or do you promote it — there are of course all sorts of arguments sort of for and against that sort of scheme that people have to use their cars . |
| 12 | Learning by looking at your first results |
| 13 | When I flopped at my first job , I was so fed up with myself I thought I was n't worth any decent firm 's money , so I went off and got a frightful job working in a dirty old canteen , just to punish myself , sort of . |
| 14 | ‘ Stop messing about , ’ Rosie had said at his first attempt . |
| 15 | Do n't be surprised if you retain no more than half of what is said at your first lectures . |
| 16 | The Asian-African Legal Consultative Committee adopted at its Seventh Session in 1965 a set of Model Rules for the Service of Judicial Process and the Recording of Evidence in Civil and Commercial Cases . |
| 17 | She decided not to see Phil and his band Genesis even though he 's a friend who played at her 30th birthday party in the Savoy Hotel and she has no engagements that evening . |
| 18 | I had become quite skilled with harees , that glutinous porridge of lamb and cracked wheat which I had met at my first meal bedu style . |
| 19 | ‘ That 's nothing to worry about — you should have heard what happened at my first interview . ’ |
| 20 | Although he might have decided to forget the way they had clashed at their last meeting , she had no doubt that Luke 's misgivings were still there . |
| 21 | It is in this context of agnosticism that I shall look at my fourth question , ‘ what can we do about it ? ’ |
| 22 | ‘ Detente ’ quickly became a pejorative term , and President Reagan , elected in 1980 , referred to the USSR in a celebrated phrase as an ‘ evil empire ’ ; the Russians , he declared at his first press conference , would ‘ lie and cheat and pursue their ends of world domination ’ . |
| 23 | The Age Concern England Executive Committee requested at its last meeting that a copy of the Briefing Paper on Council Tax be circulated to Chairs of Age Concern organisations and this will be included with News for Chairmen this month . |
| 24 | ‘ It feels great to win at my seventh attempt , ’ he added . |
| 25 | The British Nationality ( Hong Kong ) Bill was introduced in the United Kingdom House of Commons on April 4 , and approved at its second reading on April 19 , following the announcement in December 1989 by Douglas Hurd , the Foreign and Commonwealth Secretary , that full British citizenship would be given to some 225,000 people in the colony in order to restore confidence there in the wake of the military repression of pro-democracy demonstrations in China in May-June 1989 [ see pp. 36720-22 ; 37122 ] . |
| 26 | The British Nationality ( Hong Kong ) Act , approved at its second reading in April by the UK parliament [ see p. 37376 ] , received the royal assent on July 26 , whilst Maude was in Beijing . |
| 27 | One of the things that does , I 'm not being Chairman , just asking questions , but one of the things that slightly concerns me because I know that in his document the director has put about providing day care type facilities in rural areas and I remember at our last meeting , the last meeting at one , we discussed specifically and area , erm it does , does worry me a little whether the absence of any capital expenditure on our part means that we may be providing day care facilities in some areas but it 'll be of a very much lower quality or a lesser quality than we may be providing anywhere else in the areas like and and . |
| 28 | If you resist any temptation to nap in the daytime you will be more able to get to sleep at your next bedtime . |
| 29 | Now tell me , what were you doing at your last school ? |
| 30 | One thing that has not been taken up very thoroughly at this stage is the question of teaching of mathematics in primary schools , and this is a field that erm we decided at our last meeting that we must erm look into . |