Example sentences of "[noun pl] [prep] [pron] at the " in BNC.
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| 1 | It seems odd , in retrospect , to see governments delegating so passively their most important educational function , but there were two main reasons for it at the time . |
| 2 | I could n't take my eyes off him at the office and five o'clock was such a wrench — all those hours before I would see him again . |
| 3 | You and your so-called friends make spectacles of yourselves at the party , litter the garden with debris and vandalise this fountain . |
| 4 | They were getting there the cheap way and combining adventure with the bonus of having their cars with them at the end . |
| 5 | Having taken your bags of donated books from you at the church door last year , you may like to know that despite the awful rain this week , Christian Aid Sale funds stood at around £35K by noon today , so the total should be up on that figure . |
| 6 | They must be considered reasonable by the parties to them at the time of entering into the contract and they must also be seen as reasonable from an objective point of view . |
| 7 | ‘ There 's loads of them at the Standard , ’ said Cooper , persuasively , so persuasively in fact , that we ended up at 7.00 am outside Holborn Tube with a banner declaring Flirting for London , handing leaflets to men and flowers to women , so he could get a good photograph for his story . |
| 8 | We wrote columns about it at the time and no two people appear to agree . |
| 9 | His secrecy about his unhappiness made everything about daily life seem a little counterfeit , apart from meals with Sam and sprees with him at the pictures . |
| 10 | Referring to the Rhyl Labour Party campaign to persuade the public to send preprinted ‘ Deeds Not Words ’ postcards to him at the House of Commons , Mr Richards said : ‘ Anybody who thinks that sending postcards and petitions is going to change the price of bread is not living in the real world . ’ |
| 11 | Scotland failing to capitalise on pressure and inflicting wounds on themselves at the same time is another common event , though , and a first-half penalty missed by Gary McAllister had a profound effect on Andy Roxburgh 's side . |
| 12 | Fresh spring air was quite popular in Walworth after the fogs of winter , but Dolly had her reservations about it at the moment . |
| 13 | There were no messages for him at the desk . |
| 14 | But he stressed that he told officials about it at the post-match drugs test . |
| 15 | He arrived a few weeks before me at the Elephant and retired just a few weeks before I left the department after the 1987 general election . |
| 16 | The two and a half hour plenary session this afternoon will provide a forum to bring the insights of the workshops to everyone at the conference and to make practical suggestions for the way forward . |
| 17 | They had walked the perimeter his men had already marked out in preparation for the stockade he planned around the new settlement ; the deputies had taken this in , uttering cries among themselves at the tools his men handled . |
| 18 | Val enjoys her work ; her husband , who is a milkman , is able to tie in his shifts with hers at the hospital so that there is always someone to look after the children . |
| 19 | Evolution is presented as a progression from simple to complex forms with us at the pinnacle of it all as the most complex . |
| 20 | If it 's worth more than a hundred and fifty thousand pounds between you at the moment and you leave it all to your surviving spouse then when he or she dies in due course and if those figures have n't altered they 'll be inheritance tax to pay . |
| 21 | You ca n't go on forever just playing with the children and telling self-deprecating stories about yourself at the Chases ’ dinner parties . |
| 22 | Two sixty , two eighty two hundred and eighty pounds against you at the back and selling for two hundred and eighty pounds two eighty , one one nine . |
| 23 | How are things with you at the District Hospital ? |
| 24 | ‘ Your promises , phone calls to me at the university … |
| 25 | Billy refused to allow this to affect his performances in the Palace goal and he never played better than in his last two League games for us at the end of the 1931–32 season . |
| 26 | Talisker may not be too healthy for the likes of us at the moment , I 'm thinking , ’ Ratagan said . |
| 27 | The waiter , a cocky Italian who flicked his buttocks at her at the least opportunity , eyed her patronisingly and made attempts to chat her up in feeble English . |
| 28 | Well I wo n't be paying for another lot of lessons for you at the drama class David because that 's two weeks in a row you 've been saying you 've not gon na go . |
| 29 | ‘ When I heard you were coming I made some discreet enquiries about you at the newspaper . |
| 30 | When Annie signalled to take the motorway exit just below Kendal , Ellwood had pushed forward a little , leaving only three vehicles between them at the intersection . |