Example sentences of "[prep] [pers pn] [adv] at [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And , gulping the sweet air , I gazed about me gratefully at the clean green land where I worked and made my living . |
| 2 | He 's waitin' for them now at the railway station . |
| 3 | ‘ I do n't think that is the right thing for me just at the moment . |
| 4 | ‘ I work rather odd hours but you can always leave a message for me here at the cafe . |
| 5 | In the locker room the steel grilles are pasted with letters that say , Thanks for your kindness for making a tough time much easier to bear , and , If it was n't for all of you there at the hospital I do n't know how we would have survived . |
| 6 | Ehm , I walked past her twice at the airport . |
| 7 | She took a white lace handkerchief out of her bag and dabbed a corner of it carefully at the corner of her eyes before the make-up ran . |
| 8 | Lot seventy Edison Bell Standard , there is no horn included with this Lot , please note , Lot seventy and I have two hundred pounds offered and twenty , two forty , sixty , two eighty three hundred and twenty , three fifty , three eighty , four hundred , four hundred pounds against you then at the back now , any more at four hundred , it 's with me , four twenty , four fifty , four eighty on my left seated at four eighty any more now at four hundred and eighty pounds ? |
| 9 | And ten against you now at a hundred and ten pounds , one twenty on the aisle , one thirty , one forty , one fifty , one sixty , near me at one sixty , any more at a hundred and sixty pounds , seventy one eighty one ninety any more ? |
| 10 | One ninety against you now at a hundred and ninety bid , with the lady at one ninety . |
| 11 | Two hundred two hundred pounds against you now at the back , now any more at two hundred ? |
| 12 | Look with me now at the twelve questions . |
| 13 | It was probably a very good thing in far more ways than one , Harry reflected , that Aubrey would be living with them here at the farm for several months . |
| 14 | There 's been talk of Bruce leaving but it will be a greater achievement for me to establish myself as first choice with him still at the club . ’ |
| 15 | Instead of flitting from one employer to another he remained constant in Richard 's service and was with him still at the end at Chalus . |
| 16 | ‘ And we were in touch with him twice at the Yard , sir , ’ Stitch burst forth , eager to display the fruits of his research . |
| 17 | I do n't want anything to do with it really at the moment . |
| 18 | Longing flamed in her again at the smell and feel of it . |
| 19 | It is far easier to buy some extra flowers or to pick an additional bunch from your garden , than to explain to someone that you would like to take some of your gift home with you in order to give it back to them again at a later date ! |
| 20 | There are one or two old professors here left over from before the liberation ( apparently no profs have been appointed since ) and the professor of English , Prof. Chen Jia , is a charming though deaf old fellow who studied in the U.S.A. , and who used to write books on English literature before the Cultural Revolution put a stop to all that sort of thing — but even so he quoted a bit of Chaucer to me surreptitiously at the dinner table . |
| 21 | You will make a report to me daily at the first hour of night . |
| 22 | ‘ An accountant came up to me once at a party and said , do n't you find it boring doing the same thing night after night . ’ |
| 23 | This , as argued here before , is the one question capable of splitting the Tory Party , at least to the extent of creating factions with a passionate attachment to their prejudices , and no great reluctance to insist on them even at the cost of deep party division . |
| 24 | Once in her suite of rooms she sat down at a little Louis Quinze escritoire , its pale grey panels painted with carnations and pinks , and wrote a short letter to her faithless lover , asking him to call on her urgently at the embassy at eleven the next morning . |
| 25 | ‘ Anyway , I 've a horrible feeling I do n't want to talk to him just at the moment . |
| 26 | Mr. Rifkind did not reply to my letter although I addressed it to him personally at the House of Commons … |
| 27 | Rosamond 's novel [ she called her ‘ Rosamond ’ , but was only introduced to her once at a party ] . |
| 28 | I gave it to him too successfully , he put in a quick one , got too near to the hurdle , hopped over it nearly at a standstill , lost lengths on Bob . |
| 29 | Cos it 's got a handle on it now at the front here round the other side |
| 30 | ‘ The boys at Langley do n't do much talking to us just at the moment . |