Example sentences of "[prep] [pron] at [det] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There had been a kind of innocence about them at that stage , Rufus thought . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | There was no bitterness between them at this stage . |
| 5 | Consequently , the temperature contrast between them at any level is smaller than the temperature difference between top and bottom . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | I had about ten staff working for me at that time , all girls and women , supervised by the Senior Clerkess , Emily Lightbody . |
| 8 | ‘ For me at any rate , ‘ I reply . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | It 's certainly never anything stronger than that , for me at any rate , but the guests can have what they like . |
| 11 | A parallel pleasure and comfort , for me at any rate , was to watch the Jews . |
| 12 | ‘ We were looking forward to going seven points clear for Christmas but four will do for me at this stage . ’ |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | ‘ Every game is a bonus for me at this stage of my career and I 'm enjoying my football . ’ |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | We know from external evidence that Milton is clearly talking about himself at this point . |
| 18 | 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 ’ . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | The sail had been a hindrance , making sport of me at each whim of the wind , so I lowered it . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | She would be almost glad when they were gone — some of them at any rate . |
| 26 | We did get them better a lot of them at any rate . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | Only 12% think that they are public property and therefore the press should be able to take photographs of them at any time . |
| 30 | It could be said that some sort of crisis was going to force itself up in the life of a strongly emotional young man who was so strictly engaged in compartmentalizing his life : a father who was never meant to know about Janie Moore ; Minto herself cut off from college ; almost all his friends kept in darkness about his emotional history , and most of them at this period unaware of his religious interests ; pupils who were discussing with him the things he cared about most — books — but in a fashion which prevented his strength of feeling breaking through . |