Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb base] at the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I bought along this brochure , you can have a copy if you like but I mean at the back there are forty five institutions all virtually paddling their own canoe . |
| 2 | I mean at the time |
| 3 | But then they 've always got the threat of er er er I mean at the moment there really is n't that threat is there ? |
| 4 | I mean at the moment we ca n't . |
| 5 | But when he gets round to it , I think he 'll control them a bit more closely , now you can invest in that sort of fund quite safely , and although it wo n't give you any capital growth , because if they 're giving you ten percent income , obviously the capital growth 's going to be limited , but er if it 's the income that you 're after , not a bad thing to do , so I mean at the moment I may actually combine one income-type er P E P with one growth and income , where the , where the , perhaps the yield is about five percent . |
| 6 | There was a problem with gilt funds about three years ago , and T S B ran up against the problem of falling gilt yields and trying to maintain the , the flow to the investor , which they did , but th they failed to tell the investor that they were having to erm sell gilts and er trade under market value , so in fact you reduce the fund , but there are halfway stages , and I mean at the moment I can get round about eight percent , plus on , on erm er offshore funds . |
| 7 | I mean , fixed rates are dangerous because once you 've fixed , if interest rates then go up , you 've lost out on your er return and you ca n't get your money out anyway , so I mean at the moment it 's really erm er er very deeply into the cycle of low , of low interest rates . |
| 8 | We do n't want pe I mean we do n't want sales reps agreeing to allocations I mean at the moment we have n't got anybody to administer them it 's being done by groups it 's going to be a nightmare in a big way |
| 9 | I mean at the moment all the food is is protecting the license cos you 've got to do food , food up to two o'clock . |
| 10 | Well why do n't we , I mean at the moment the children are still |
| 11 | I mean at the moment they 've got it short , but they have it long here and long at the back and then everywhere else short , short back and sides |
| 12 | I mean at the moment , I mean from that one week |
| 13 | you know , but I mean at the moment I keep , he 's coming home some nights and , you know it like , he 'll come home and say I had a really good morning the kids were great , but as for the afternoon , and like he said when you 're teaching you 're only as good as your last lesson , you know |
| 14 | And what about overtime on Sa I mean at the moment some of them are working during the week and Saturdays and they need that to maintain the sort of service level that we 're doing at the moment . |
| 15 | They are political constraints , particularly with the U N , they are political ones when one considers government to government aid , I mean at the moment for instance the British Administration will only give large , significant amounts of emergency relief to countries which are already recipients of British development aid . |
| 16 | I mean at the moment there 's an awful lot of pressure on women , I mean social pressure , to respond to flirtations and sexual overtures in a way that does n't hurt the feelings of the young men , and women of that age |
| 17 | I mean at the moment of choice you 're faced with a set of people , including , let's say , one man and one woman , who on paper match each other and who perhaps , even if you 've adjusted for a possibility of the woman 's having to fight and so on , they 're equal on paper . |
| 18 | I mean at the moment it just evades it . |
| 19 | I mean at the end of the day it becomes subjective , like choosing wallpaper . |
| 20 | I mean at the end of the year , we need to have sold a Because these people , they need to come for funding purposes . |
| 21 | Before I go to the supermarket , I usually stop off for a drink ; I sit at the bar and watch the real world go by . |
| 22 | In any case , I sit at the stall during daytime . ’ |
| 23 | I peer at the kids ' faces , and feel like a teacher at an end-of-term disco . |
| 24 | Your Lordship will smile I trust at the progress your loving son is making for the Company ; to whom we are beholden for our wherewithal and our signal progress in this land . |
| 25 | I DAWN AT THE PYRAMIDS |
| 26 | Oh they bag something terrible but then I say at the price I 'm not gon na buy them , I 'm not , but in the Dodger 's there 's not one small in any colour |
| 27 | At Reading road in Shiplake , the A four one five five , there are some temporary traffic lights there holding er the , your journey up this evening , for road realignment work and er there are some delays there as I say at the moment . |
| 28 | I hesitate at the top of the path . |
| 29 | The duvet symbolizes the whole wretchedness of leaving , so I slump at the table , pulling a long face and blowing ripples in the surface of my coffee which has grown cold anyway . |
| 30 | For some writers concerned with English language teaching , the notion of rhythm is a more practical matter of making a sufficiently clear difference between strong and weak syllables , rather than concentrating on a rigid timing pattern , as I suggest at the end of 14.1 . |