Example sentences of "[indef pn] at [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Carrying on with someone at a finishing school . ’ |
| 2 | I was convinced that the law would back us , so I found someone at a local law centre and she confirmed it , so we went back . |
| 3 | Someone claimed to have heard him on the radio from Darwin — but it was always someone at a third hand remove ; someone who had heard it from someone who had heard it from someone . |
| 4 | The idea was of staking out the estate and counting on someone at the appropriate moment . |
| 5 | ‘ Oh , piss off , ’ shouted someone at the other end of the hut , as a boot bounced off the door just as the Sergeant made his exit . |
| 6 | Bob 's phone rang , and while he was talking Dyson , who was sitting back in his chair and waiting for someone at the other end of the line , covered up the mouthpiece of his phone and said , ‘ Are you coming to the funeral , Tess ? ’ |
| 7 | When he assumed the role of the accountant and conducted the whole conversation with someone at the other end who was trying to make an appointment , he was brilliant . ’ |
| 8 | Recording a verdict of suicide , coroner David Morris said : ‘ It is easy enough to criticise the bank as a body — there is always someone at the sharp end . |
| 9 | Most schools have appointed someone at the middle management level or above ( see Figure 1 ) . |
| 10 | Did he not go and shoot someone at the clay-pigeon shooting in Ardallt two months ago ! |
| 11 | If you saw someone you knew and you shouted out to them , you were in dead trouble , even if you shouted hello , or if you asked someone at the next table for a cigarette . |
| 12 | Someone at the next table echoed that in a foreign accent and Ruth turned to smile at him and raise her glass in a mutual toast . |
| 13 | Advantages : An agency can usually find you someone at the last minute . |
| 14 | That meant he carried on and when someone at the last moment dropped out , he dropped in ; it was more or less par for the course that , by the end of 1944 , a very large number of Pathfinders had notched up 70 or more sorties . |
| 15 | A business mistake is made , and it is assumed that the mistake would have been avoided if somebody at a higher position in the organization had known about it , or had intervened . |
| 16 | Stop me if you 've heard this , but one of those gunsels opened up on somebody at the rear entrance of the Regal Arms Hotel . ’ |
| 17 | Rangers , though , deserved some fortune because they had enjoyed none at the other end . |
| 18 | When the target is a letter , it activates one unit at the letter-detector level but none at the word-detector level ( all word detectors will be inhibited ) . |
| 19 | Don ? t expect to understand everything at a first reading . |
| 20 | Mould was a frenzied , energetic builder and did everything at a manic speed . |
| 21 | I have my breakfast to cook and today 's the day of the Two Thousand Guineas , I ca n't keep my mind on everything at the one time . " |
| 22 | I said that they must n't be sad because he had , after all , crammed so much into his short life , that his parties had given enormous pleasure to so many people , that Conor was the sort of person Jack Kerouac might have loved , he was one of the ones who are mad to live , desirous of everything at the same time , ‘ the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing , but burn , burn , burn , like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars ’ . |
| 23 | You can not do everything at the same time . |
| 24 | If a public sector organisation says that it will do something at a certain time , the customer wants that to happen . |
| 25 | Although not strictly part of the academic programme , this is considered to be an important part of the project because if you enjoy your last experience of school , then you 're more likely to return to studying something at a later stage in life . |
| 26 | We would arrange to be something at a particular time in the evening and then the following day we would compare our thoughts . |
| 27 | He knew , because in a town the size of Plumford everybody knew these things , that Hubert Molland had been given a combined parish a few miles outside Plumford , and that the Mollands were now living in Champney Crucis ; he knew that Kate had left school and was now doing something at the technical college ; and , more importantly , he had heard from Joe that she was going out with the local MP 's youngest son , whose name was Julian and who drove a Triumph Spitfire . |
| 28 | So provided you get something at the right level of sophistication , you should n't go far wrong with any of the mainstream graphics software currently available . |
| 29 | But someone was saying something at the same time as Lord Boddy , making him falter and finally stop in midstride . |
| 30 | I first started to think about painting about ten years ago when my two children married and left home and I thought I 'd ‘ do ’ something at the local adult education centre . |