Example sentences of "[adj] [verb] [pers pn] at a " in BNC.
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| 1 | The farm owners were n't working class , so the ways this put them at a disadvantage is irrelevant . |
| 2 | Cranston seized the bowl by its two silver handles and half drained it at a gulp . |
| 3 | Mr C Mrs D what does that show ya at a glance ? |
| 4 | A completely brittle material like glass is reasonably safe as long as we are content to operate it at a very low stress level , for instance as a shop window , because the Griffith crack length is then quite long and so the material is safe against minor chips and abrasions . |
| 5 | Someone , in other words , who is likely to take silk , but likely to take it at a time sufficiently far in the future to give you a chance of stepping into part of his practice as a junior . |
| 6 | And he 'll use that to keep us at a distance . |
| 7 | I first met them at a trial . |
| 8 | So impressed was I that I took Hellen to meet her at a later performance the same week . |
| 9 | And the second thing she understood was the reason why she was indeed so desperate to keep him at a distance . |
| 10 | But that put him at a disadvantage according to the flatty rules Daine had strung himself with . |
| 11 | She made for an armchair , knowing it would be wise to keep him at a distance , but she did n't reach it . |
| 12 | Thirdly , the model suggests one way of accounting for the peculiar nature of mathematics , computing and language , as the disciplines which constitute our stances in and towards the world , and for the way they relate to other disciplines , both servicing them at a mundane level and pervading them at a profound level . |