Example sentences of "[conj] [pron] [verb] [pers pn] at " in BNC.
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1 | IBM Corp started relaxing its strict accounting practices way back in 1984 , just as the company 's core mainframe business began to lose its impetus , although no-one realised it at the time . |
2 | ‘ Although someone supervises me at all times , I handle all my cases myself . |
3 | One officer suggested behind his hand that I visit him at his home after work , and in exchange for this little attention he would write me a six-month permis de séjour . |
4 | ‘ Yes , not that I knew it at the time , of course , else I 'd never have gone . ’ |
5 | I had no idea that what was happening was my body trying to bring itself up to a natural weight rather than the unnatural , low one that I kept it at . |
6 | I told her that I had you at work then yesterday , right , she says oh no another one , right , and ended up |
7 | He sounded so sincere that I forgave him at once in my heart . |
8 | When I came to Macmillan , it was with the greatest difficulty that I telephoned him at all . |
9 | Well as I 've taped that I taped it at home |
10 | ‘ Now that I have you at last you 'll never be away from me again . ’ |
11 | And we saw that in the calculation that I gave you at the end of last week 's lecture . |
12 | All I can say is that someone hit me at about 40 or 50mph up the back as I was turning into the corner . |
13 | I was called away to the hospital so I left her at the house waiting for Nigel to turn up to collect her . ’ |
14 | Vera 's not back from lunch , so I kept it at the desk . ’ |
15 | Two had left so I visited them at home . |
16 | Ronni smiled a small smile , grateful that the subject of Jeff and Silvia had been left behind , and enjoying , for once , the fact that she had him at a disadvantage . |
17 | If it was true what he said , that she kept him at arm 's length , surely there could only be one reason for that ? |
18 | Phyl would have stayed in show business without the help of Littler but she was fortunate in that she met him at the right time , when he was building up his pantomime empire . |
19 | The only other possibility is that it was never there in the first place — that she left it at home by mistake . ’ |
20 | all the same , that she wants me at home , though she does n't like me , and she could never admit that she might need me … " |
21 | ‘ Do n't you know that you caught me at an age when Taureans are at their most vulnerable ? |
22 | ‘ You wrote that you caught him at his flat just at the time he was leaving the country . ’ |
23 | ‘ I do n't want to spend my time with you , any more than you want me at your side , so the sooner you tell me where Garry is , the sooner we can part company . |
24 | They 're being pumped around the body even faster so therefore that 's going to take hold of the person faster , so you keep them at rest , into recovery position if possible and get help , do n't forget to er collect any evidence of what the poison is , it must go with the casualty . |
25 | So many of you enjoy Dr. D 's column ( we have taken an extract from his latest book this month , page 176 ) that we photographed him at home with his new wife , TV presenter and novelist , Christine Webber , page 8 . |
26 | Evidence is growing , however , that we have a need to express our grief and that we ignore it at our peril . |
27 | We may do it badly , but the beauty is that we do it at all . |
28 | Our horses had more sense and refused to go further so we stabled them at a local inn where we satisfied our hunger on a dish of fish cooked over charcoal before making our way up to the castle . |
29 | Of course er they have about erm well I 'm not sure , about twenty eight or thirty thousand gallons of diesel stocked up there , and of course in them buying it in bulk like that they get it at a cheaper rate . |
30 | When faced with that choice this summer , I chose to encourage people to continue to develop computerisation in primary health care rather than simply to reward directly those who did something very valuable — there is no doubt about that , or about the fact that they did it at their own risk — some years ago . |