Example sentences of "[prep] [pers pn] at the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Molloy learned it from me at the Imperial Hotel , Blackpool , during one of the duller party conferences . |
| 32 | He had happened upon me at the crucial moment : I had little idea of who I was or what I was entitled to from life , let alone what it behoved me to contribute . |
| 33 | Fenella looked over her shoulder at them and saw that they were looking at her with such blind trust and with such faith that cold anger rose in her at the evil Lord who had forced them to his work . |
| 34 | ‘ Give me time , ’ and she looked away from him at the distant hills . |
| 35 | Something twisted inside her at the naked emotion that flashed for a moment across his face . |
| 36 | He turned away , looking round him at the great nest of screens and machinery . |
| 37 | Blanche looked round her at the wallpapered walls and the flounced pink curtains and said , ‘ How very nice . |
| 38 | She looked round her at the luxurious suite and shuddered . |
| 39 | And she did , leaving a very bewildered Ellie to look round her at the well-equipped kitchen and the gently steaming kettle . |
| 40 | The People 's Party should also be benefiting from the little-noticed collapse of the Democratic and Social Centre ( CDS ) , a party that took votes away from it at the general election in 1989 . |
| 41 | Looking about him at the great press of people , the escalator that was a river of people flowing on and on , the crowds that streamed down the stairs so that if a train was held up there would be room for no more to squeeze on to the platform , he wondered why a terrorist group had never thought of putting a bomb in the tube . |
| 42 | He all but bumped into the couple , but , just in time , he arrested his progress , drew back , seemed , for an instant , to seek for oxygen as if he had emerged from some physical deep of ocean , looked about him at the mundane world he had re-entered and then , with rapid dignity , collected himself . |
| 43 | Tuan Ti Fo turned , looking about him at the simple order of his room . |
| 44 | All this time Marcus was standing , now more upright , looking about him at the various speakers , with an interested air . |
| 45 | Noah 's knowledge of the law applicable to gipsies surprised Arnold Peck , but now he glanced about him at the listening gipsies . |
| 46 | Hammond looked about him at the bare white walls , then nodded . |
| 47 | He glanced back at her , then turned away , looking about him at the cluttered floor , the smoke-blackened walls , the broken ceiling of the room he was in . |
| 48 | Von Stein had fallen to his knees , and stared dazedly about him at the ruined lab . |
| 49 | Harry looked about him at the comfortable disorder of the place , which was not at all like the spick and span home Ann had made for him . |
| 50 | Cranston was waiting for him at the small tavern just outside Aldgate in the Portsoken overlooking the stinking city ditch . |
| 51 | Georgi Kirov was waiting for him at the appointed place and time . |
| 52 | He spends all day on the practice ground sometimes and this paid off for him at the German Open . |
| 53 | Donal was married on August 29 and shortly afterwards an appointment was made for him at the Royal Marsden Hospital in London . |
| 54 | Carrie looked about her at the crackling fire and a fair semblance of tidiness in the kitchen . |
| 55 | After opening nights at Blackpool , she would snub John ; when he waited for her at the front entrance with their car and chauffeur she would deliberately slip out of the Stage Door and go home by tram . |
| 56 | I 'll have to you 've got ta give me chance to buy papa and grandma 's grandpa 's and I can wrap them up and give them to them at the golden wedding or ca n't I ? |
| 57 | Anyone wanting to get in touch with the Graingers can write to them at the above address . |
| 58 | I got on the bus at the terminus at the bottom of Avondale Buildings and rode it back and forth to the other end of the line , sitting on the top deck , not knowing where I was or what I was doing , until the conductor came up to me at the other terminus , after my fifth trip , and asked : ‘ You all right , mate ? ’ |
| 59 | He will be settling his own sundry bills but I would like the invoice for the room to be directed to me at the above address . |
| 60 | He said : ’ there is no statistical evidence that is known to me at the present time of people who are actually being discharged from the private sector We do not have evidence to bring to you of a substantial number of people who have been discharged against their will from the private sector . ’ |