Example sentences of "[pers pn] at [adj] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | How nice to see you at this kind of gathering . |
| 2 | ‘ I know , ’ said Henry , ‘ and I am sorry to bother you at this time of night but my client has given me to understand that this is when you would be available . |
| 3 | I 'm sorry to bother you at this time of night . |
| 4 | Rather than commit you at this stage to the costs of detailed accounting , due diligence and contract drafting , which may subsequently prove to be abortive , MAS would intend performing a short key features review devised to highlight potential deal breaking points and other inevitably contentious issues ( such as possible earn-out terms ) which will need to be resolved with the vendors prior to proceeding . |
| 5 | Check your records to make sure that your employee was employed by you at some time during that week . |
| 6 | Now at this juncture here you would n't actually say what products you 're gon na do , cos you 're not gon na go back and say well I 'm thinking of er two hundred thousand pounds of convertible term assurance and we 're looking personal pension plan , but you 'll tell the guy you 're gon na go back to the branch , we 've got a variety of different things sir and what I wan na do is to go back to the branch and work on one or two ideas for you and then present them to you at some time in the future . |
| 7 | The child 's subconscious reaction remains the same and , unless careful understanding is given to him at each stage of his growing up , he will spend the rest of his life in such a way that he reinforces that self-image which tells him that he is not worthy of receiving love . |
| 8 | She knew him to be Alexander Rokovssky , the dark tool of autocratic monarchs and a fanatical servant of Tsarism , a man who could slit another 's throat or shoot him at point-blank range without any change of expression . |
| 9 | Walsh dropped him at long leg off Ambrose on 22 then , at 66 , crucially , David Williams , another first-timer at this level alongside Adams and Benjamin , floored a regulation catch behind , thereby allowing Hudson further demonstrations of a trademark straight drive . |
| 10 | Apparently Kelly played well again … we might see him at right back vs Man City . |
| 11 | Pease had been taking part in a march through the capital , Lima , when the officer shot him at close range with bird shot . |
| 12 | He has been friendly with Holy Trinity 's vicar since teaching him at theological college in Durham . |
| 13 | Comfortable Government majorities on two key motions followed a searing fightback by the Chancellor , Norman Lamont , during raucous exchanges which saw him at one stage on the ropes in the face of a furious tirade by , alternately , the Labour leader , John Smith , and the shadow chancellor , Gordon Brown . |
| 14 | Ah , said Mr Healey , Enoch had been with him at that seminar in Florence he 'd mentioned . |
| 15 | ‘ The coercion may of course be of different kinds , it may be in the grossest form , such as actual confinement or violence , or a person in the last days or hours of life may have become so weak and feeble , that a very little pressure will be sufficient to bring about the desired result , and it may even be , that the mere talking to him at that stage of illness and pressing something upon him may so fatigue the brain , that the sick person may be induced , for quietness ' sake , to do anything . |
| 16 | To this day , Hardy , himself having achieved the double of classical and popular success as an actor , speaks of him at that time with unaffected adulation . |
| 17 | ( He would not be among strangers ; among those preceding him at that limbo for disgraced generals were the unfortunate Bapst , de Bonneval and Chretien . ) |
| 18 | Because Mr has represented him , Mr said before that he he thought it was as duty solicitor that he , he has represented him at some stage as duty solicitor but , he is represented under legal aid though this defendant by a firm of solicitors in Birmingham and he 's anxious to be committed for trial today . |
| 19 | He , he has represented him at some stage as duty solicitor . |
| 20 | He walked forward into the middle of the nave , and stood looking straight before him at some point above the high altar . |
| 21 | We have another description of him at this date from a diarist who happened to meet him . |
| 22 | Whitelegge 's knowledge of epidemiology , and his experience of public health administration in industrial districts , recommended him at this time to the Home Office , which was being pressed to reorganize its industrial health work . |
| 23 | One of the more experienced printers remembers Laura asking him at this time to ‘ have a go ’ at producing a pattern she liked . |
| 24 | They were concerned to be caring and look after him at this time of tragedy , and he was just not really taking in what had happened . |
| 25 | Who could it be calling on him at this time of night ? |
| 26 | We glimpse him at this time as the ‘ very accurate , industrious young man ’ commended by ‘ Governor ’ Thomas Pownall [ q.v . ] . |
| 27 | Apart from and me , there is , a rather lugubrious ( though pleasant ) Peruvian , and , the French Canadian , whole reminds me of , in that he expects everything to be done for him at little cost in exchange for a good wit and ready sense of humour — also like , he plays the piano , with a special line in French songs . |
| 28 | When , for example , a solicitor is recruited as a specialist to head up a new department it would be appropriate to seek some commitment from him at any rate in the medium term . |
| 29 | I saw him a lot at the Ehukai Beach Park where he was based , but only managed to talk to him at any length at a party in the hills . |
| 30 | It has to be emphasised that the committee worked always in the shadow of the law : Section 132 of the Public Health Act 1875 had said that any expenses incurred by a local authority in maintaining in a hospital a patient who is not a pauper , should be deemed to be a debt due from such patient to the local authority , and could be recovered from him at any time within six months after his discharge from the hospital . |