Example sentences of "[pers pn] at a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Or scanned you at a maiden aunt 's , |
| 2 | Even though your school may not have the most modern and well equipped building set in extensive playing fields serving a prosperous suburb this need not put you at a great disadvantage in marketing the school . |
| 3 | ‘ Is your sister expecting you at a specific time ? ’ asked Penry when they were on the way to Haverfordwest at last . |
| 4 | Lock your door , set whatever device will rouse you at a definite time ( cooking-timer , flashing alarm clock , vibrator ) — set it to go off in eight minutes . |
| 5 | on a , on how I find you at a particular time . |
| 6 | Everybody has them and something must be holding you at a given height above the ground ! ’ |
| 7 | ‘ Look , I 've got you at a bad moment , sorry . |
| 8 | ‘ I 've obviously caught you at a bad moment . |
| 9 | ‘ Oh — have I caught you at a bad time , dear ? ’ |
| 10 | His estates were , moreover , a heterogeneous collection , put together with an eye to providing him with an income rather than creating a political niche for him at a regional level . |
| 11 | His estates were , moreover , a heterogeneous collection , put together with an eye to providing him with an income rather than creating a political niche for him at a regional level . |
| 12 | If reserved for his personal use , it might put him at a certain advantage over his employer . |
| 13 | He was talented enough and resourceful enough to survive it , although I think it almost devastated and destroyed him at a certain point . |
| 14 | ‘ Is all well ? ’ he asked when she joined him at a small table in a corner of the crowded bar . |
| 15 | He had the faculty of meeting everyone on the level , and Father had a story of seeing him at a political meeting , which he was probably chairing , walking arm in arm with the Grand Old Man himself , both talking . |
| 16 | With his shorts flapping around his knees and his wispy , thinning hair he was almost a caricature of a footballer , but Wally could mesmerise his opposing full-back or swerve past him at a deceptive pace , before putting across an accurate , teasing centre . |
| 17 | Frank Cole of the Daily Telegraph wrote of Chapman : ‘ If you sat near him at a big match … you realized the intense earnestness of the man . |
| 18 | Next Wednesday , a score of television bigwigs will meet him at a special seminar at the Department of Trade and Industry , part of the D T I 's efforts to boost British exports . |
| 19 | There were the two gold and jewelled boxes Müller had sold him at a staggering profit , considering he had bought them from someone facing criminal charges , and desperate for cash . |
| 20 | Now that he 'd told her he wanted the club , Adam would probably expect her to keep him at a wary arm 's length . |
| 21 | They approached him at a steady pace as though unconcerned by his presence , but they went in single file , Allen with his hand lying lightly on the knife at his belt and Marian carrying her bow , strung , and with an arrow ready notched , lightly and inconspicuously in her left hand . |
| 22 | He told the reporter , who was driven blindfold to meet him at a secret location , that gangsters doused one of his two sons with petrol and threatened to kill them both if he did not co-operate in the theft . |
| 23 | Could I have caught him at a bad moment , could he have mellowed , I could n't believe it . |
| 24 | I think you just caught him at a bad moment . |
| 25 | ‘ I know you and Niall did n't exactly get off to a good start , but if it 's any consolation you caught him at a bad time . |
| 26 | If his remarkable strategic instinct convinced him at an early stage that it would be necessary to negotiate with the FLN , his obvious repugnance at the process caused major problems . |
| 27 | Say , ‘ You lost him at an early age , did n't you ? ’ and I 'll say , ‘ Lost him ? |
| 28 | Gooch watched Akram 's bowling as closely as a surgeon at the operating table , the ball flashing across him at an acute angle against the backdrop of a dramatic dark-blue sky . |
| 29 | We first met him at an elegant hotel in the ‘ uptown ’ district of Manhattan , New York , overlooking Central park , a watering place well known to artists ( Joe Cocker also happened to be in residence at the time ) . |
| 30 | Where a member of a board is not re-elected to the authority which appointed him at an ordinary election , he remains a board member until the first meeting of the authority after the election . |