Example sentences of "[prep] [pers pn] [conj] at [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You 'd be stupid to go across the stepping stones if you did n't have the power to jump from one to the other , pretty big , but the , so are the distances between them and at that time of the year the river was pretty high too and r rather boisterous , so it would n't be very pleasant if you had fallen in , but you 've got to have that but you 've also got to have stamina as you said , but it would n't have been any fun if you 'd got halfway across and your stamina had run out , then fire brigade called out , the fire brigade or something . |
| 2 | I 'd never felt he cared for me but at last we sat and talked . |
| 3 | In mid-afternoon , he hove to , dropped anchor and took Mary the few hundred yards to the sports field , basking a little in their ceremonious passage — the work and self-forgetfulness of the day brought out every best quality in her and yet , paradoxically , although at the pitch of her beauty , she herself was more unaware of it than at any other time . |
| 4 | • Is the clock the same in all of us and at all stages of our lives ? • What do we know about the clock itself — where is it , what influences it , and how does it work ? • What is the usefulness of such a clock ? |
| 5 | She took a look over her shoulder and saw a horse and rider behind her and at full stretch , but with the sun in her eyes , Artemis could n't distinguish who it was . |
| 6 | So they 've got to do something with it and at some time have a suitable return to the club and their forefathers who left this property . |
| 7 | I talked them into it because at first they were scared , one because they thought they 'd get docked for it — but they said we could have half a day off for it and not get docked — and also because they thought Ros and Maureen were going to be looking down on them , " Oh , you 're only young girls ' , things like that . |
| 8 | The glamour and glitter of London that his wife clearly loved was not for him and at any opportunity , he would fly back by helicopter to Highgrove late at night . |
| 9 | She did n't know at the time that some day she would call herself ‘ artist ’ or ‘ writer ’ — not many teenage coloured girls from the Gorbals in Glasgow had trailblazed a path in that direction , so it was a real exploration into the unknown for her when at sixteen she set out to go to college to study fashion . |
| 10 | And it has always seemed to me that at that moment Wes walked back into his old life . |
| 11 | It seems to me that at this level of textual analysis , translators generally face three main possibilities : |
| 12 | It had n't occurred to him that at some point his life-support system would be taken away . |
| 13 | The same reasoning , I suspect , saw to it that at one time you could n't get olives , only peanut and crisps , in smart bars in Spain , because olives were what peasants ate . |
| 14 | Well a tumbler is where they , the buckets used to go over the top and empty into a chute into the hopper and er went cos it was on a continual chain you see cos you had a bucket two links , a bucket two links , a bucket two links , all the way round and that 's how you used to dredge all the time round and round and round and that 's how it went over to the top tumbler cos you had a bottom tumbler on this layer and a top tumbler , otherwise you could n't dredge otherwise and that top tumbler , I am certain it had five , five sides to it because at one , at one time you 'd tip a bucket on one then you 'd get two lengths so it kept the tumbler more or less equal all the way round the wear and tear of it . |
| 15 | SCOTLAND ‘ The knock-on effect has come through to us and at last it is being admitted in Scotland that prices are falling , ’ says Dunan McDougall of Ryden Residential in Edinburgh . |
| 16 | I did nothing about it because at 17 it was n't really the sort of thing you went to the doctor about . |
| 17 | Sometimes the word is for us and at other times instead of us ; but whatever the word , the New Testament writers were in no doubt that Jesus was Saviour of the world , and that his death was the crucial victory of God . |
| 18 | The forest became a blur of green around her until at last she tore into Mada Joyce 's yard , her long limbs flailing , sending the fowls squawking under the house in panic . |
| 19 | : The state can forbid persons to give evidence on subjects specified by it if at any time in their lives they have taken the Official Secrets Oath . |