Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] at [noun] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I do n't think , I think Phil , although he 's a complete arsehole at times I |
| 2 | born free look at merito I 've got a merito for every piece of work I 've done |
| 3 | As Nick Gatfield , director of A&R for EMI Records ( UK ) says , ‘ In three and a half years at EMI I have signed only one artist from an unsolicited demo tape . ’ |
| 4 | To help pull this cart at times they would enlist the help of a mule owned by old Dick Gooding at Holly Kill . |
| 5 | The first few years at school I learnt nothing — |
| 6 | How anyone can eat all this stuff at lunchtime I 'll never know ! ’ |
| 7 | Dr Myerscough told the High Court at Teesside he considered not enough care had been given to Mrs Busuttil when she was first admitted to the maternity hospital three weeks before her delivery date because her general practitioner had detected irregularities in the baby 's heartbeat . |
| 8 | This morning at breakfast we were smoking the last two . |
| 9 | Er , like this morning at break I walked , I walked straight past Peter right and er come up to me and he goes that 's not very nice is it ? |
| 10 | Oh gee , tomorrow right , mum has gone to me the other day oh , there 's this woman at bridge she wants someone to baby-sit for her on Wednesday nights . |
| 11 | And number , and two , to press for the provision of suitable houses for old people at rents they can afford . |
| 12 | To press for the provision of suitable houses for old people at rents they can afford . |
| 13 | Anyway , in that desolate chamber at Sheen I removed soft buskins from the corpse 's feet , carefully pushing back the blue robe and the white cotton shift beneath . |
| 14 | When you tackle a foreign language at school it tends to be treated like a series of codes you have to crack . |
| 15 | I do n't think enough emphasis is put on tackling — if you make a 30-yard break at home you get some polite applause , but if you put a really big hit on someone they are up on their feet shouting in the stands . |
| 16 | In his early days at Highbury he was painfully aware of being labelled the first £10,000 footballer . |
| 17 | In the summer of his second year at university he worked at a butcher 's . |
| 18 | Ladies and gentlemen erm about three years ago we finally decided to restore this car that you see behind us and although it was er an impossible task at times we , we carried on regardless and I hope that you 'll agree that everything you see today , plus the fact that seeing everybody out here , I think we , you 'll agree we made the right decision and er we feel that as long as this car is in this position that nobody 'll erm have any doubts who the Three- Ninetieth Group were and er , I think er , I think we 're all proud of this day particularly . |
| 19 | Without the possibility , then , of altering one 's perceptual inputs at will it is difficult to see how the information provided by the input systems could ever be centered upon a self , a self that is not just a repository of information , but something which addresses itself to reality and for whom reality is centred upon itself . |
| 20 | After two or three hours at night I 've just started . |
| 21 | After rapid progress at the School of Fine Arts at Lille he became a pupil of Francisque Rebour and Georges Busson , both respected equestrian painters . |
| 22 | To the frockcoated bankers at Coutts he was a welcome asset in the account of a perennially trying customer . |
| 23 | When John Hawarde , a lawyer , was summoned from his rooms in the Temple to attend the Privy Council at Greenwich he had to pay Mr Ward , the Clerk of the Council , a royal for recording his appearance , 6s. 8d. for his entering into a bond , and 6s. 8d. for the bond itself . |
| 24 | White and you when there 's white flour at home I use it |
| 25 | The reason was that at Trico the district committee ( which in the engineering union structure is a very important body ) was dominated by the left while at Electrolux it was controlled by the right . |
| 26 | By covering the pot during the day and by placing it uncovered beneath an electric lamp at night you could try to reverse their pattern of behaviour . |
| 27 | Similarly , in shaping the format and means of communicating plans and performance down to managers , ‘ having run the retail operation at TSB I appreciate the needs of the front-end operation and the importance of giving people the information that really matters to them with the right commentary . |
| 28 | On the 4th August 1601 , in the Privy Chamber at Greenwich he was received by Queen Elizabeth I where he presented Her Majesty with his Pandecta of all her rolls , bundles , membranes and parcels that reposed in Her Majesty 's Tower at London . |
| 29 | ‘ It 's been a lifelong ambition of mine to beat him but at the big jump before Ballyboley Corner , Joey whizzed past me and although I tried to catch him again and take a tight line at Ballyboley he had just too much experience and he held on to beat me . |
| 30 | Er a at present , the , the coffee is all Latin American , or Central American but i i it 's intended and it 's all ground coffee at present it 's intended it will include African coffee as well . |