Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] at [adv] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | They were just poling away and Matt shouted ‘ Hey , fellers , cut ’ but they did n't take any notice and I remember thinking maybe they 're testing the rope to see if it works , and Matt and I turned at just the same moment and saw where the Indians were heading us — straight into a pile of rocks and foaming water — and I knew the rope must have broken or something . |
| 2 | And I understood at once the implications of what he 'd been saying . |
| 3 | Graham , John Taylor and I spend at least the equivalent of a day a week on cycling matters . |
| 4 | She recognised at once the well-built woman who turned from some chore at the kitchen sink as the woman who had opened the door to her last Friday . |
| 5 | You know at least the erm |
| 6 | She had seen her country overrun by both the German and the Russian armies ; she knew at first-hand the madness of war and the fear it transmits to the civilian population . |
| 7 | Marc was moving through the gears with a touch like velvet , his control so sure , so sensual that she understood at once the pleasure he gained from driving . |
| 8 | As Bosnia pulls back from the brink of peace , we look at why the Bosnian Serbs rejected the Vance-Owen peace plan , at what the West might do next , and at the possibility now raised of a wider Balkan war |
| 9 | Tonight in a special report we look at how the Forest has been abused in the past , and how it 's still going on today . |
| 10 | Right , here we went at twice the speed , and it finished up half the time . |
| 11 | So we looked at just the , th the histology of the patient and related it to the prognosis . |
| 12 | In the last chapter we looked at how the social institution of marriage has changed at different times in history . |
| 13 | We have at least the mental equipment to foster our long-term selfish interests rather than merely our short-term selfish interests . |
| 14 | I do not claim any more for these criteria than that they raise at least the possibility of a belief being affirmable . |
| 15 | The Experience consists of four young men who look , talk and act as if they 've grown up in good families , graduated from decent schools , and dress as if they shop at just the right places — Paul Smith , say , or Emporio Armani . |
| 16 | ‘ God Almighty ! ’ whispered Laura when they arrived at where the Jordan 's street had been . |
| 17 | Refrigerated display cabinets are micro-processor controlled to ensure that they run at exactly the correct temperature — cold enough to preserve food properly , not so cold that they waste energy . |
| 18 | They guess at only the tip of the iceberg of what is going on in these firms . |
| 19 | In their nervousness they offered at once the gifts they had brought : tea , fruit , duty-free whiskey — ‘ It 'll be useful to have in the house even if nobody drinks it and we might need a glass ’ — a printed silk headscarf , thick fur gloves . |
| 20 | They looked at both the Redcliffe-Maud and Wheatley approaches and concluded that the principles of the latter ‘ were more appropriate to the circumstances of Northern Ireland ’ ( Macrory 1970:24 ) . |
| 21 | Before a module is accepted by LIFESPAN , its header is checked to ensure that all its constituent keywords are present and that they contain at least the minimum amount of information required . |
| 22 | To the inner city local authority it offers at least the promise of retaining some economic activities that would otherwise leave the area ; and to the inner city resident it offers the prospect , as well as often the reality , of countryside recreation and relaxation . |
| 23 | Others see it occurring at exactly the same time each day , but with no obvious connection with any other activity . |
| 24 | Easily as such writing can , on occasion , include the narcissistic or the vacuously ludic , it has at least the capacity to be seriously — or wittily — challenging , an enabling enhancement of its readers ' vision and decisiveness . |
| 25 | It was the best lesson I 've ever had , and it came at just the right time . ’ |
| 26 | She said he had left the house in the forenoon of 24 October and been covered in blood when he returned at 3am the next day . |
| 27 | Looking over his shoulder he saw at once the brass bedstead , and the sewing-machine table on top of which Stanley had said he would find the boxes of glass balls . |
| 28 | It denies at once the sovereignty of the State , and that more subtle doctrine by which the State is at once the master and servant of law by willing to limit itself to certain tested rules of conduct . |
| 29 | Between 1946 and 1985 the volume of world trade grew nine times ; it increased at twice the rate of output and incomes . |
| 30 | But it appeared at precisely the right moment to catch the poststructuralist tide associated with Derrida and the later Barthes , and several of the most influential titles brought together , rather uneasily , poststructuralism and Marxism . |