Example sentences of "[vb pp] [pers pn] at [art] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 Their one hundred and fifty ton heavy life crane would have coped with that job easily enough but I hastily declined his offer which , apart from any other consideration would have placed me at a slight disadvantage .
2 ‘ Oh — have I caught you at a bad time , dear ? ’
3 ‘ I 've obviously caught you at a bad moment .
4 Could I have caught him at a bad moment , could he have mellowed , I could n't believe it .
5 This E S R D really is the bible and we have specified the aircraft to meet that E S R D and not anything extra , er obviously if one of the four nations wants to build a nuclear role into the aircraft that becomes a very big political question first and foremost and we have just not considered it at the technical level at all because it 's er it 's not in the requirement .
6 My cousins , & his wife , , sailed from Victoria , via Vancouver to spend a day with us in Seattle ( we had already met them at an all-family-reunion wedding in Cheltenham in August . ) .
7 Somehow — it did not seem diplomatic to enquire too deeply just how — he had missed her at the arranged spot .
8 I 'd met her at the odd party where we 'd chatted and that 's about it . ’
9 Chlorine is relatively easy to measure I 'm sure you 'll all of done it at A level chemistry titration , silver nitrate ?
10 ‘ Look , I 've got you at a bad moment , sorry .
11 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 .
12 Having , as a small boy , saved his pocket money to buy his mother a scarf for her birthday , he was sharply told to take it back : he had bought it at a Liberal shop .
13 Tight in his hand he held the silver coin that Dad had given him at the front door .
14 ‘ Story of my life , ’ he growls when a red declines to go into a pocket for the simple reason that he has hit it at the wrong angle .
15 It 's left them at a loose end at home .
16 ‘ By pushing the boat out unilaterally , ’ says Weir Group 's Ron Garrick , ‘ the Government has put us at a severe disadvantage compared with our German and American counterparts .
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