Example sentences of "[prep] [pers pn] at [art] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Bristol Mail was heading towards them at the piteously slow speed of a horse and cart , urged forward by a sleep-weary teenage post-boy . |
| 2 | The main purchasers of bills are the discount houses , which then sell many of them at a slightly higher price , to the banks . |
| 3 | Middlesbrough Bears 50 Long Eaton Invaders 39 BORO 'S unpredictable Bears grabbed their first league win of the season last night although they made hard work of it at a bitterly cold Cleveland Park . |
| 4 | Simultaneously the far more important question of relations with the American colonies , and of the moral justification of the demands which the mother-country was now making on them , roused intense feeling and stimulated widespread political discussion , much of it at a relatively high intellectual level . |
| 5 | Alternatively , many charities or bodies such as the Scouts will be delighted to deliver through every letter box in the area for you at a very modest fee . |
| 6 | And then , walking behind her at a rather greater distance than might have been thought usual , came Linnet Gage in a dress that fell from her tiny waist as gracefully and naturally as a waterfall , each diaphanous tulle frill overlapping the other with perfect simplicity , her face as delicate and beautiful as rare porcelain , her blue eyes clouded by a dream of remote but tantalizing sweetness , which also touched the corners of her lips , raising them very slightly in a smile of which every man present must have wished to know the secret . |
| 7 | In the IR spectrum of this molecule already mentioned there is one strong absorption and a much weaker one associated with it at a slightly different frequency . |
| 8 | ‘ Verlander bought the land from me at a grossly undervalued price ! |
| 9 | There seemed no limit now to what could go wrong ; panic welled up in her at the least excuse . |
| 10 | As the doors opened she stepped out and glanced quickly round her at the tastefully lavish five-star décor . |
| 11 | Because she had been detached from it at the most traumatic moments , she had not been caused any distress but was well able to see how the combination of Daniel 's various experiences could have led to her phobia about water . |
| 12 | And for her at the most , third sight . |
| 13 | When she had picked up all her parcels and disentangled the umbrella from the bonnet of a fierce-looking old lady , she went up to them at a more decorous pace , and joined in their unfeeling laughter . |
| 14 | Though the Swan was more sophisticated than the Queen 's Head , it was only a matter of minutes before servants , ostlers and maids were scampering all over the large and comfortable hotel to see to the minutest needs of the ‘ Honourable Member of Parliament ’ , ‘ brother to an Earl ’ , who had landed on them at an unexpectedly late hour and naturally — ‘ a Colonel as well ’ — demanded the best of everything both for himself and for his ( temporary — ‘ from Keswick ’ ) servant and his ( ‘ pale-looking ’ ) daughter . |
| 15 | Some people discover this element of themselves while still very young ; others come to it at a much later stage in their lives — and others never manage to find it at all . |
| 16 | ‘ And I reckon it 's right — ’ I pulled a map from my pocket , spread it upon my desk and whacked my finger down on to it at a very particular spot ‘ — here . ’ |
| 17 | To combat this recurrent worry , they had long since introduced random underpant inspections which could be sprung on us at the most absurd moment . |
| 18 | We need to move , at the same time that the property market is in a substantial slump , and th are therefore offices available to us at a very very competitive price . |