Example sentences of "[subord] [noun] [verb] [pron] at " in BNC.
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| 1 | Once Keith left it at the home of some guy he 'd had a one night stand with , and when he went back to get it he was so embarrassed he had sex with the guy again , which was a mistake for both of them . |
| 2 | They were part of Japan until Russia occupied them at the end of the second world war , and the Japanese feel they are justified in wanting them back . |
| 3 | They 'll shatter if Suragai pulls it at full stretch . ’ |
| 4 | The theory of the ISAs would indeed be very crude if Althusser left it at that but he completes the essay with a discussion of ideology , the mode in which the ISAs function . |
| 5 | Cos Rachel rang me at work and said I need your phone number . |
| 6 | Until Charlie paid her at the end of the week , Lucy would again be in her usual flat-broke condition . |
| 7 | Drugs always do better in nervous markets because people need them at least as much , if not more , when the economy is doing badly than when it starts to recover . |
| 8 | Inside the kitchen , while Carrie busied herself at the range , Seb hovered behind her , wanting to touch her , but not daring to , in case she objected . |
| 9 | Reporters waited outside her apartment day and night , while photographers badgered her at the Young England kindergarten where she worked . |
| 10 | Thereafter things improved ; we got several thousand corners while Arse got none at all . |
| 11 | He tested his first successful model on 27 October , 1815 in Killingworth colliery , two months before Davy tested his at Hebburn colliery on the first day of 1816 . |
| 12 | As Kenny and Kenny suggest , the " position of the landlord is now very much strengthened " and the " question is whether licences have anything at all to offer to the landlord looking for an income from his residential property . " |
| 13 | I do n't know whether reps get them at home , do they ? |
| 14 | Other sketchbooks contain swift pencil notations which correspond to oil paintings , although it is not entirely clear what function they served and whether Monet consulted them at any later stage in the evolution of his compositions . |
| 15 | Corbett could only shout at Ranulf to stay and do nothing before Selkirk took him at a canter out of the abbey . |
| 16 | The bleeding persisted and Jean was very weak when Jim left her at the maternity ward . |
| 17 | Indirect Rule and the evolution of the Commonwealth idea had disarmed much left-wing criticism of the empire in the years between the wars and encouraged the development among British radicals of ‘ responsible ’ views on imperial subjects , which came naturally to bloom when Labour found itself at last in office . |
| 18 | It was 3-0 just before half-time as Shearer threw himself at the ball . |
| 19 | The future of Lothar and his supporters was settled when Louis met them at Blois in September : The emperor sat in his pavilion which was set up in the middle of a wide field on a hill where the whole army could see him , and his faithful sons [ Pippin and Louis ] stood beside him . |
| 20 | She thinks the microwave ‘ has changed our perceptions of time , much as telephones changed them at the turn of the century ’ . |
| 21 | Furthermore , as Martov put it at the 1903 congress , all members of the party should be concerned with the disabilities of minorities , not just the minority itself . |
| 22 | It was a strange letter , as Bill told me at numbing length how much he hated literary magazines , and how he knew I did as well . |
| 23 | His jaw hung open , and he was near enough for me to see the rain dashing from his face — when lightning showed him at all . |
| 24 | Twice , in the Miller 's Tale , we hear a cock crow , as Absolon presents himself at the " " shot-wyndowe " " of Alison 's bedroom ( 3357 , 3687 ) . |
| 25 | He was obviously well-known because people nodded to him , smiled , glanced curiously at her as Feargal sat her at a small table at the rear . |
| 26 | As Bromberg tells us at the beginning of her excellent mixture of history of science and politics , ‘ The US government has supported a research programme in fusion energy since 1951 , and in the 30 years through 1980 it has expended more than $2 billion . |
| 27 | He seems to have been retiring to his ships again when Edmund overtook him at the hill called Assandun ( probably Ashdon in north-west or Ashingdon in south-east Essex ) . |
| 28 | As Tomsky put it at the Fifth Congress of Trade Unions on 2 October 1922 : ‘ Without the strengthening and support of transport there can be no construction of socialism . ’ |