Example sentences of "[indef pn] at the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The idea was of staking out the estate and counting on someone at the appropriate moment . |
| 2 | ‘ 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 . |
| 3 | 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 ? ’ |
| 4 | 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 . ’ |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Most schools have appointed someone at the middle management level or above ( see Figure 1 ) . |
| 7 | Did he not go and shoot someone at the clay-pigeon shooting in Ardallt two months ago ! |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Advantages : An agency can usually find you someone at the last minute . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . ’ |
| 13 | Rangers , though , deserved some fortune because they had enjoyed none at the other end . |
| 14 | 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 ) . |
| 15 | 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 . " |
| 16 | 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 ’ . |
| 17 | You can not do everything at the same time . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | But someone was saying something at the same time as Lord Boddy , making him falter and finally stop in midstride . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | Provided you have a fair left hand reach it 's possible to play this without a capo , although I have seen many people play it either with one at the 2nd fret , or without one by transposing the part down to E … |
| 23 | The door he had entered by would take a pedestrian but not a vehicle ; the one at the far end was wide enough and high enough to take a truck . |
| 24 | That only leaves the one at the far end , which belongs to a couple who plan to retire here in the spring . |
| 25 | The SOCO strutted across to one at the far end , shielded behind a panel of rough hessian . |
| 26 | If he wanted a degree he could just as well get one at the technical college in Ipswich … |
| 27 | He held off a late charge from Rhuddlan 's Chris Davies who had a hole in one at the 179 yard 13th in his final round to take runners-up . |
| 28 | You can knit row one at the usual cast-on tension , but I prefer to increase the tension to three on one of the carriages . |
| 29 | Working-class voters had already elected one Labour government in 1923 and following the General Strike they elected another one at the first opportunity in 1929 . |
| 30 | ‘ Someone gave me one at the First Aid Post . |