Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] [verb] [pron] at " in BNC.
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| 1 | But another sister followed me at the Dowsons when I left to get married . |
| 2 | This experience gave him at least a chance of succeeding in the Caucasus . |
| 3 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 4 | Some candidates may indicate a clear reluctance to commit themselves at this stage and this is helpful in making the final decision about who best to appoint . |
| 5 | One estimate of this period puts it at about thirty days . |
| 6 | The Forza del destino arias opening this disc show her at her best . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | They get some man to do it at the moment . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Injection into an already unstable laser stabilises it at high enough y-values : at low values of y the behaviour is , unsurprisingly , irregular . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | He would have regarded it as a breach of etiquette for a French nobleman to present himself at court in uniform . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | A heater/stat in this tank keeps everything at 80°F , matching the parents ' tank , and aeration distributes the temperature evenly . |
| 18 | Because of one of the two mentioned here in this note has nothing at all to do with the environment . |
| 19 | At that moment he would have given up every moment of his past and future freedom to have her at his side . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | A genuinely warm welcome awaited us at Les Trois Mousquetaires , our hotel , which is run by the Venet family . |
| 24 | 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 ) . |
| 25 | His incredible determination and immodest personality kept him at the top of his profession . |
| 26 | Not only had her real mother rejected her at birth and given her away , but worst of all , her adoptive father whom she had loved so much now turned out to be her real father , a cheat and a deceiver . |
| 27 | ‘ No , ’ he said , a soft laugh escaping him at her obvious embarrassment . |
| 28 | A quick examination put her at ease but may have done little for her embarrassment ; the culprit was a misplaced liquorice all-sort . |
| 29 | Any chariot may have an additional giant wolf to pull it at a cost of +4 points . |
| 30 | But startling news awaited him at Naples . |