Example sentences of "[conj] [pers pn] [verb] at [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | During the day we all became more confident and learned about another ‘ point of sailing ’ — ‘ beating ’ where you sail at 45 degrees to the wind . |
| 2 | ‘ Bedtime — you look as if you 'll fall asleep where you sit at any moment . |
| 3 | March and February we spent on the Brenner , where we lodged at three different farmsteads . |
| 4 | And I say to them ‘ Look , do n't start planning this whole thing on your own from the beginning , go round and talk to the various people you know that are interested and say to them ‘ Look , I 'm planning to try and do this work , or we agreed at such and such a meeting that I would do this work , but I do n't just want to do this on my own , I want to take into account other people 's views . |
| 5 | While other constitutional texts , where they existed at all , have for long periods been purely notional , national autonomy never ceased to have a certain operation reality . |
| 6 | Some of them even have to be parents when they get home where they see at first hand the pressures to supply children with fashionable merchandise . |
| 7 | Real enemies tend to be confined ( where they exist at all ) to colleagues in one 's own party . |
| 8 | However , profit margins are tiny where they exist at all and ICI had made it clear that it was not chasing ‘ profitless prosperity . ’ |
| 9 | He made his way back to his native area around Sorn , Muirkirk and Mauchline , where he slept at various farms , including Garfield , Meadowhead and Priesthill . |
| 10 | This is because the European Community dumps low-quality beef , at great cost to the European taxpayer , on West African markets , where it sells at half the price of locally produced beef . |
| 11 | Where it survives at all , belief in a special East European road may be strongest in parties with a nationalist tinge , like Hungary 's Democratic Forum . |
| 12 | There is training , though not enough , available at considerable expense to staff working for NGOs , but training for volunteers is patchy and unsystematic , where it exists at all . |
| 13 | It would be churlish of me not to say how much I welcome that statement , and how much I rejoice in the fact that to add to the four climbdowns that I announced at 4 o'clock , there is a fifth — the abandonment of the proposal announced by the Home Secretary in column 167 of Hansard on 2 July . |
| 14 | I also said that erm my I expressed that the fears that I expressed at this meeting last time about er the fact that Paul and I now supervise civilian staff , er which I 've never been sat down and told what the civilians term of contract are and what I can or can not say or whatever , so erm I feel it will be quite valuable , and brought it for me to see if anybody think it 's worthwhile pursuing . |
| 15 | You were n't of afraid of me but the accent that I had at that time . |
| 16 | Not that , not that I look at that sort of thing on a regular basis so |
| 17 | But Mala did insist , with some steeliness , that I look at some of the data . |
| 18 | Also , I may have given him the impression , with the urgency of youth possessed of strong convictions , that I wanted at all costs to have something published on this subject . |
| 19 | ‘ I think you 're a very brave girl , ’ he said ‘ — braver even than I thought at first . |
| 20 | Just to say that the trip worked out slightly cheaper than I anticipated at first and have pleasure in returning a little bit from your cheque . |
| 21 | Dear Harsnet , he wrote , it has taken me longer than I had at first anticipated to work my way through the manuscript you . |
| 22 | ‘ But I felt less affection and respect for you when I said it then , than I do at this minute , when I ca n't honestly say it . |
| 23 | " Now I feel younger at seventy than I did at sixty . |
| 24 | Mind you , my elder daughter takes a lot more responsibility for herself than I did at that age . ’ |
| 25 | In fact , I look better now than I did at 20 and I 'm still pretty fit . |
| 26 | Had never felt the exquisite excitement that she felt at this moment . |
| 27 | And it was n't until she 'd finished doing the washing-up , and the kitchen had been cleaned to her satisfaction , that she began at last to simmer down . |
| 28 | He recalled tales about her , that she had at one time belonged to a respectable family of farmers ; unbelievable now , for she could certainly no longer be placed in that category . |
| 29 | And thus it was that she came to be , on that February evening , poised at the very crown of the hill in Kensington Gardens , looking down the hill , with her back to Bayswater and home and trembling with the fear that she had at last grown up . |
| 30 | Blanche was happy as she walked out , confident at the end of the afternoon that she had at last found an explanation for Tatyana Nowak 's suicide , and the first direct link between a particular human being and the murder . |