Example sentences of "[pers pn] [adv] at [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You will make a report to me daily at the first hour of night . |
| 2 | Put them together at the last possible moment and cover with a damp tea towel until you serve them . |
| 3 | Quite suddenly he let go and sort of pushed me away at the same time . |
| 4 | And , gulping the sweet air , I gazed about me gratefully at the clean green land where I worked and made my living . |
| 5 | Were you ever at the Royal Shakespeare Company at Stratford ? ’ |
| 6 | And ten against you now at a hundred and ten pounds , one twenty on the aisle , one thirty , one forty , one fifty , one sixty , near me at one sixty , any more at a hundred and sixty pounds , seventy one eighty one ninety any more ? |
| 7 | One ninety against you now at a hundred and ninety bid , with the lady at one ninety . |
| 8 | ‘ Emilia , dearest , do you imagine I could abandon you now at the very moment I have longed for ? |
| 9 | To our disbelief it was really very much more abundant than we could ever have thought possible , so we 've actually been able to find molecules with eleven carbon atoms in a chain , floating around in space , and for which we really at the present time have no explanation . |
| 10 | ‘ WHY OH WHY DID THEY TRY TO CHANGE THE WORLD BY REPEATEDLY CONTRADICTING THEMSELVES ( AND WERE WE REALLY AT THE SAME GIG ? ) |
| 11 | And opened them sharply at an insistent , warning buzz from her duty station . |
| 12 | He raised them now at the two shaken women who sat facing him in the interview-room at Stowbridge police station . |
| 13 | Look with me now at the twelve questions . |
| 14 | Please do not hesitate to contact me here at the above number if you have any other queries or concerns . |
| 15 | He told her so at the very end . |
| 16 | It was n't an amused smile , but it was one that sent her away at a brisk and confident walk towards the house , and with a gratifying sense of being respected and appreciated . |
| 17 | He nearly rang Fred up , but he would be seeing him tomorrow at the first night . |
| 18 | In 1979 he voted for Margaret Thatcher , backing her again at the last election after a switch to the SDP in 1983 . |
| 19 | I remember that she asked me to guess what was inside a sort of pasty served to her on Thásos , and that I got it right at the first guess : macaroni . |
| 20 | Self-delusion could easily once again cloud the judgment of the shadow cabinet and Labour could go it alone at the next election , perhaps with the same misplaced confidence in a ‘ safety first ’ stance that will deliver success if the dangers inherent in new initiatives are avoided and new ideas anathemised . |
| 21 | Exploiting the glueyness of spider silk , a hummingbird will prod it repeatedly at a selected spot until at last it sticks . |
| 22 | When they reached the prison , at Riom , and an official tried to argue that they had no authority to remove the canisters , Jacques Allier took out a pistol and levelled it wordlessly at the bureaucratic face . |
| 23 | Sabine pinned on a polite smile , and aimed it straight at the oncoming vehicle 's windscreen . |
| 24 | He said it straight at the senior officer , who looked for a moment as if someone had cracked a whip in his face . |
| 25 | Instinctively anxious for its welfare ( he had not needed Jack 's admonition ) he drove it carefully at a modest pace , resisting the temptation to press hard upon the accelerator . |
| 26 | Chesarynth gripped it convulsively at the strange sight of people milling around . |
| 27 | They have fired this interest by spending £44m on the issue , aiming it primarily at the retail investor when one might expect an issue of this sort to be more suitable for institutions . |
| 28 | I would have liked to have heard it again at the second service but Dad made us hurry home . |
| 29 | It still ran away from him but he grabbed it again at the second attempt before it went over the line and the chance had gone . |
| 30 | It is far easier to buy some extra flowers or to pick an additional bunch from your garden , than to explain to someone that you would like to take some of your gift home with you in order to give it back to them again at a later date ! |