Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb -s] [adv] at [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You know perfectly well that your husband 's mother lives at a considerable distance , in point of fact in a suburb of Sheffield , and that she has never at any time offered to look after your children . " |
| 2 | She leaves home at 1 pm. , arrives at the market at 3 p.m. and takes an hour to do her shopping . |
| 3 | ‘ He wo n't get far , so if he turns left at these lights we go right , ’ says Mark , but it 's only his sense of humour showing . |
| 4 | At these moments he looks closely at each inch of her face , like a valuer frowningly examining some precious object . |
| 5 | But within this group he looks specifically at solid tumours and they only have a four year survival of twenty percent . |
| 6 | He says only at first it was all new to me . |
| 7 | For all these reasons , there is some mixing , though it occurs more at some times of year ( during the winter storms ) than at others . |
| 8 | It ends exactly at 8.30 , as the candidate had asked that it should . |
| 9 | Because , although it 's before nine erm , the next morning erm you 're actually giving them now more lead time , you 've given them another day because an , sometime tomorrow you know , if it gets there at two o'clock and it 's off-loading in in in at the bay and someone checks that it 's been received and then someone makes a phone call to tell them it 's there , and then they 're doing something else , and then they come down and have a look at it , how many boxes do you think are sitting on loading bays that do n't get looked at for a day or two , or three , or four , five when they 've had a next day service ? |
| 10 | It aims more at political and peaceful penetration than at profit . |
| 11 | It aims chiefly at more , here and now , for the organised workers of the craft or industry [ and ] accepts as inevitable , if not as just , the existing capitalistic organisation and the wage system … |
| 12 | It 's because it locks better at that groove . |
| 13 | There are a whole range of things he ca n't do , he ca n't direct congress , he ca n't appoint who he wants freely , he ca n't make treaties with whom he wants when he wants , he ca n't start wars if he wants to start wars all these controls are on the president but what I , what er Newstat is saying is , over and above that , even in the areas where he appears to have constitutional authority , as a matter of practice it 's very difficult for the president to exercise his authority and when the president does exercise his authority he does so at great cost to himself . |
| 14 | It recurs only at isolated moments in the lives of those who suffer and , by this very experience , become more isolated from their fellows . |
| 15 | Raise the tank temperature to 70°F. before adding it as it works better at higher temperatures . |
| 16 | What they do not see , of course , are the tears at the sheer frustration of it all when it hits home at two in the morning . |
| 17 | It begins gently at first , a pipe bridge , a lattice canal footbridge and an arched cable bridge , and then develops in earnest as sliproads flail through the air , the M6 crosses , the Birmingham to Lichfield railway passes through and ever more sliproads arc over until the canal passes into a large box tunnel with two towpaths below the A38M Aston Expressway before emerging into the relative simplicity of Salford Junction below the M6 . |
| 18 | And er he comes home at half past three and he then sort of told us what we 'd got to do in it . |