Example sentences of "[conj] [v-ing] [adj] at the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Swansea and Neath Society was founded in December 1822 but made no appeal through a public meeting until January 1826 ; the Manchester Society , although becoming active at the beginning of 1824 , issued no report to the public until March 1827 and had only had its first public meeting on 22 March 1826 . |
| 2 | And bringing his experience of dealing with and understanding those at the front end of retail financial services with him . |
| 3 | ‘ What 'll you have , then ? ’ asked Bill heartily , and then , with his odd alternations of mood on him : ‘ What 'll it be ? ’ quite mournfully , and looking bewildered at the array of bottles . |
| 4 | The most Mr Simpson would concede — with the greatest reluctance and sounding scandalised at the impropriety of the question — was that his late client had been in receipt of a private income from a family trust . |
| 5 | wonderful , friendly yet austere , huge yet intimate and minute , kindly and terrifying all at the same time . |
| 6 | Aberdeen 's Paul Lawrie had to thank a homeward 35 for his 73 after starting at the tenth with a 6 and taking another at the eighteenth where he three-putted . |
| 7 | Steven shouted hoarsely , shaking his head , sniffing hard and blinking all at the same time , " My contempt for all … all of you is just it ! |
| 8 | Entering a room full of rough soldiers , unescorted , and sitting alone at the high table , exposed to their speculative eyes and lewd jokes , held no fears for her . |
| 9 | ‘ The thing is , ’ he murmured , sending her a smile that managed to be wicked and appealing all at the same time , ‘ I 'm so used to trusting Simon completely that I forgot you did n't know him at all . ’ |
| 10 | The third part of Mrs Thatcher 's strategy of creating an enterprise culture , which massively rewards those at the top while penalizing those at the bottom of the income pile , has been the launching of a series of reforms of the welfare state . |
| 11 | By the end of the decade , the Russians saw German economic links as threatening alarmed at the numbers of German " advisers " and their political activities in Iran . |