Example sentences of "[prep] [pron] at [det] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 There had been a kind of innocence about them at that stage , Rufus thought .
2 And in between there is a complete selection of discos , bars and night clubs , offering something for everyone at all prices .
3 Teenage magazines often have stories about girls who fall in love with handsome , exciting young men who do n't care for them at all while ignoring the nice , but rather ordinary , boy-next-door who thinks the world of them .
4 I would just like to I know we need to the television programmes on about the Gulf and so on , but I 've two young children at home , and I find that yesterday was a very long day because there was just nothing on for them at all B B C two at four o'clock .
5 We combine these by choosing just a few random points in them , say two or three , and copying from the first string up to the first point ; then copying from the second up to the second point ; then copying from the first again ; and so on , switching between them at each point .
6 There was no bitterness between them at this stage .
7 Consequently , the temperature contrast between them at any level is smaller than the temperature difference between top and bottom .
8 It was too large for me at that time , but over the next twelve months I must have grown considerably because , with wooden blocks fixed on the pedals , I was able to reach it in comparative comfort .
9 I had about ten staff working for me at that time , all girls and women , supervised by the Senior Clerkess , Emily Lightbody .
10 For me at any rate , ‘ I reply .
11 The combination of purple-red flowers and cream variegated foliage of Buddleia davidii ‘ Harlequin ’ may not suit all tastes but least appealing of all , for me at any rate , is the purple-flowered phlox , also called ‘ Harlequin ’ , whose leaves are generously splashed with cream , a combination which does not work for me .
12 It 's certainly never anything stronger than that , for me at any rate , but the guests can have what they like .
13 A parallel pleasure and comfort , for me at any rate , was to watch the Jews .
14 ‘ We were looking forward to going seven points clear for Christmas but four will do for me at this stage . ’
15 The main thing for me at this stage in my career is to be in a well organised team which will help me win the 250 World Championship .
16 ‘ Every game is a bonus for me at this stage of my career and I 'm enjoying my football . ’
17 Although the latter cases are probably a diminishing minority , especially now that budgetary delegation under LMS has made it essential that heads in their turn delegate a greater proportion of their managerial functions to senior staff , our studies indicate a more general need for primary schools to continue to review the role of deputy headship , to define more exactly the range of tasks it is appropriate for someone at that level of seniority to undertake , and to ensure that all deputy heads have appropriate job specifications .
18 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 .
19 We know from external evidence that Milton is clearly talking about himself at this point .
20 Even in the so-called ‘ permissive ’ 1960s , there were no gay switchboards or lesbian lines , and Chad Varah made it part of his mission to encourage self-acceptance in lesbians , most of whom at that time felt ‘ guilty or freakish ’ .
21 Nor was it only their tenants who were resentful , but they also had to face envious glances at their lands from the laity , some of whom at any rate seem to have considered them suitable prey .
22 A group not given βblockers included the remaining 2688 patients , none of whom at any time received a β blocker of any sort , including atenolol .
23 The sail had been a hindrance , making sport of me at each whim of the wind , so I lowered it .
24 But I felt dreadful , like a bloated lump with one leg and no hair , so there are n't any photos of me at that time at all .
25 But the dreariness , the frightful struggle of life , the indifference of people , the troublesomeness of children — he did not want to be reminded of them at that moment .
26 The six sections of that car were allocated to twelve assorted actors and crew , most of them at that point reading , talking or fast asleep .
27 She would be almost glad when they were gone — some of them at any rate .
28 We did get them better a lot of them at any rate .
29 The research is based on the assumption that most of the contemporary ideas on this crucial topic date back to the 19th century , and that some of them at any rate are by now dated .
30 If you talk to people in the street the majority of people who have young children are certainly saying we need day care , we need opportunities for ourselves erm and are quite prepared , some of them at any rate , to go and say that to their local councillors and to write to their M Ps .
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