Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] [verb] [pers pn] at " in BNC.
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| 1 | But they will have to beat off a challenge from French millionaires Monaco , who head a posse of foreign clubs shadowing him at Forest . |
| 2 | But another sister followed me at the Dowsons when I left to get married . |
| 3 | This experience gave him at least a chance of succeeding in the Caucasus . |
| 4 | Further honours awaited him at Bologna , where he applied for membership of the Accademia Filarmonica . |
| 5 | Not even Balanchine always survives this test , and lesser creators ignore it at their and our peril . |
| 6 | Our distinguished guests left us at Oban where we returned the following day . |
| 7 | ‘ You can give me another place to meet her at night-time , a more private place , which she can choose and no one will be able to find out . ’ |
| 8 | One estimate of this period puts it at about thirty days . |
| 9 | The Forza del destino arias opening this disc show her at her best . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | When I drew the attention of the Leader of the Opposition to a previous threat of this kind , made by the hon. Member for Coventry , South-East ( Mr. Nellist ) , the right hon. Gentleman withdrew it at once . |
| 12 | For further details contact her at . |
| 13 | with some Ernst to connect 'em at other end of the spectrum |
| 14 | There were times when Eliot seemed uncertain or ill at ease , suddenly very much the " resident alien " — one has the impression , always , of a man invaded by inexplicable moods and anxieties which he did his best to conceal — and Hayward 's own dominating and very English manner afforded him at such times a certain amount of confidence . |
| 15 | Cecil has not won the 2,000 Guineas since Wollow scored in 1976 , but Pursuit of Love is a genuine contender and it will take a convincing performance from either Forest Tiger or Dr Devious in today 's Craven Stakes to displace him at the head of Ladbrokes ' market — and other firms could well follow suit . |
| 16 | They get some man to do it at the moment . |
| 17 | No one had ever been able to knock her for six , and if this man affected her at all it was because she disliked him so much . |
| 18 | Injection into an already unstable laser stabilises it at high enough y-values : at low values of y the behaviour is , unsurprisingly , irregular . |
| 19 | He told the reporter , who was driven blindfold to meet him at a secret location , that gangsters doused one of his two sons with petrol and threatened to kill them both if he did not co-operate in the theft . |
| 20 | On June 1 End Product Duty — the system that assesses the tax on beer as it is about to leave the brewery — replaced the old system assessing it at the beginning of fermentation . |
| 21 | It was not for that generation to complain if the inhabitants of India and of the dependent colonies took them at their word , albeit a mistaken word : the myth of an Empire exploited by the United Kingdom was a plant which grew in the same soil as the myth of an Empire that alone secured ‘ adequate prosperity ’ to the forty or fifty million inhabitants of the United Kingdom . |
| 22 | Miss D'Arcy took the compliment , appreciated the censure and the mocking of Mrs Crump , and smiled the smile of the dumbly adoring at Hope , who was alerted by such a perfect response but nevertheless willing at this stage to receive it at face value . |
| 23 | At that moment he would have given up every moment of his past and future freedom to have her at his side . |
| 24 | Some of the defenders of the domestic load , such as Dennis Bellamy ( chairman of the Yorkshire Board ) , occasionally quoted cost and load data to justify their views , but these were based on such a biased sample of observations that it was difficult for any serious enquirer to accept them at face value . |
| 25 | So the real question facing us at the moment is not whether there should be a relationship , or whether there should be a link but in what way we should modernize it and arrange it today . |
| 26 | With his evangelical approach , he thrived in the conditions of greater religious freedom introduced in 1988 , but his radical views on the church 's contemporary relevance placed him at odds with a traditionalist wing which sought to revive the Russian Orthodox Church as it had been before the Bolshevik revolution . |
| 27 | If , however , mutations affect both juvenile and adult survival equally , selection against their early effects keeps them at low frequency , and prevents the collapse of late survival . |
| 28 | A genuinely warm welcome awaited us at Les Trois Mousquetaires , our hotel , which is run by the Venet family . |
| 29 | Children play mournfully in heap of setter shit above which washing-line used to hang ( until sodden towel bust it at three a.m. , landing in setter ordure as mentioned ) . |
| 30 | Robbie could scarcely believe this was the same man who was at such pains to keep her at a safe distance , until she reflected that in Fen 's eyes Miss Taylor would present no threat to his reserve . |