Example sentences of "[adj] [verb] [pron] at [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | All we know is that Nicola was due to meet him at nine o'clock and that he did n't turn up . |
| 2 | The vast waiting lists of the local authorities , as well as the existing local authority houses , contain large numbers of families who , with private enterprise building again at the rate and real cost of the 1930s , would be both able and willing to accommodate themselves at economic rents or prices . |
| 3 | That had been rather exciting and they were prepared to recount it at considerable length until Narouz intervened and told them to shut up . |
| 4 | If there has genuinely been no opportunity for the candidate to find out about practical matters of pay and conditions in advance then it is sensible to discuss them at this stage , and you should have all the necessary details ready . |
| 5 | And of course if you 've got any questions in the two days I 'm not just going to er at you all the time you know it 's participation is this so any questions that you have any comments you want to make please feel free to make them at any time it 's not going to throw me . |
| 6 | It concentrated instead on living examples of people who were judged highly creative , thereby making it possible to evaluate them at first-hand on objective personality tests or similar assessment procedures . |
| 7 | So it 's too dark to see anything at all in fact . |
| 8 | It is so easy to overdo it at first so please be gentle with yourself . |
| 9 | Cassie was content to leave it at that . |
| 10 | He continued firmly , and Faye relaxed a little , as if half daring to believe him at last . |
| 11 | If it is difficult to distinguish precisely the living standards of older women in official statistics , it is impossible to say anything at all about the position of older Black women ( or men for that matter ) . |
| 12 | In general , in such languages , it is almost impossible to say anything at all which is not sociolinguistically marked as appropriate for certain kinds of addressees only . |
| 13 | Finally it is appropriate to say something at this point about the fact , discussed in detail in Chapter 2 , that habituation does not show context dependence . |
| 14 | To say that [ 18a ] and [ 18b ] are simply alternative ways of communicating the same message might be taken to suggest that the decision whether to make the assumption about house-warming parties explicit conveys nothing at all . |
| 15 | Once they 've joined in the Pirates Club , you 'll be lucky to see them at all , as they go through their paces for the junior cabaret ( where a lot of hidden young talent come to light ) , or as they enjoy the treasure hunts and fancy dress parties . |
| 16 | JENNIFER CAPRIATI , looking sharp as a pin in defeating Helena Sukova in straight sets , was actually lucky to see anything at all . |
| 17 | He believed , and Irina confirmed this , that Marcus had been , though initially hostile , glad to see him at Red Cottage because he was an acquaintance and someone to talk to . |
| 18 | I 'm glad to meet him at last . ’ |
| 19 | Whilst a through understanding of AI is not required they should have a little background since all are likely to meet it at one time or another . |
| 20 | Now , five years later , the battles are won ( significant skirmishes remain , but it would be unwise and ungenerous to detail them at this point ) . |
| 21 | Having stumped up £250 to help sponsor a general practitioners ' management meeting in Nottingham , the Royal Bank of Scotland saw fit to leave it at that . |
| 22 | Once public debate is permitted in the election period it becomes hard to prohibit it at other times . |
| 23 | I could have done with it , I could n't get on the bloo they got this internal bus service that runs from each college , cos you have to go to the other colleges for your lectures , and I just sort , there 's not enough , and you , you get turned away , and I just thought , I went for that bus Tuesday morning , I was supposed to get it at eight fifteen , and he just said sorry , no more room . |
| 24 | Grammatical gender is supposed to have nothing at all to do with sex . |
| 25 | Still , it is good to see him at all , and I suspect his performance in Reflected Glory will linger in the memory … |
| 26 | It was cancer of the bowel , though the doctors were slow or unwilling to diagnose it at first . |
| 27 | Indeed , she walked so far and so long that she was too tired to write anything at all upon her return and did not in fact send a reply until the following day . |
| 28 | It 's good to meet you at last . |
| 29 | Just in case you 're tempted by knockdown prices on old style monitors , by the way , you should bear in mind that in four years time it will actually become illegal to use them at all at work . |
| 30 | Nobody except his lawyers and myself know his whereabouts or have an address and it might be as well to leave it at that . |