Example sentences of "at [adj] [adj] [noun] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If she had n't been due at her craft class at eleven that morning she would have called back later , but as that was n't possible she 'd phone . |
| 2 | However , as Lennie ( 1980 ) points out , that does not mean that these cells respond more rapidly to visual stimuli than the other classes , since the latency of response to visual input is determined largely by events in the retina At low spatial frequencies they are linear but as the spatial frequency is increased non-linear properties emerge . |
| 3 | Cedric made it worse , because at each rasping expulsion he would look round enquiringly at his back end then gambol about the room as though the fugitive zephyr was clearly visible to him and he was determined to corner it . |
| 4 | At that first meeting he told me something about himself . |
| 5 | So bear that in mind , even the beginning of this story look at that first paragraph it 's in a darker type it 'll make me filthy , a darker and a larger size . |
| 6 | I can therefore understand why at that awful moment he should seek to summon up a talisman of words , a secret defence against abomination , or perhaps even an excuse in the form of some kind of precedent that a word expresses and so takes the edge of uniqueness off the contemplated evil . |
| 7 | She rested her head on his shoulder , and even at that slight touch he felt the familiar stirrings . |
| 8 | But because you do n't that amount has n't been withdrawn from that two twenty five , so that in the next year you put in your eighteen hundred and at the end of that year you get interest on three thousand eight hundred and of course the two twenty five which happens to be three seventy seven , so at that second year you start getting interest on the fifty six pounds that you have n't been required to pay . |
| 9 | Mum look at that poor man he 's got lipstick on |
| 10 | Zak came up to me with Donna and offered me a lift back to the city in their bus , and at that exact moment I saw not Bill Baudelaire himself but someone who might go among the owners , where Tommy could n't . |
| 11 | Up on the , on the main road at that big house you went |
| 12 | Surely it was his duty to be ? she told herself , not realising that at that very moment he was sitting listening to a paper being read at a learned society , his mind occupied with a particularly tricky question he intended to ask when the speaker sat down . |
| 13 | At that particular point he was whingeing away so |
| 14 | Well at that particular time I was already on the council , I was doing family planning which took up an awful lot of my time . |
| 15 | Well at that particular time I could n't tell him . |
| 16 | At that particular time I would n't tell them anything , all my all at that particular time is waiting for an appointment to see them . |
| 17 | And , and then er at that particular time you know and er then unemployment you , I you had to see each firm was issued with the and the firms had to agree that you had to sign a contract of employment so that er if you were leaving or he was paying you off , you had to be given two weeks ' notice either way before they pay you off . |
| 18 | But what you 're actually going to find is that what they 've divorced themselves from is the assistance and the technical help that comes from the County Council , and whilst you may have your teachers trained up to a certain point you therefore have at that particular time you you have them fully trained , and then you say oh well I do n't need any training for the next couple of years so I can step back and save on that area . |
| 19 | ‘ But at that particular moment I was cursing the VHF set . |
| 20 | He knew Carter was lying , but at that precise moment he could do little except inspect the premises and then write up his notes . |
| 21 | ‘ Enjoyed our first day serving King and country , ‘ ave we ? ’ asked the duty corporal of his charges , when at twenty-one hundred hours he turned down the gas lights in the barrack room . |
| 22 | From what I knew of John Hayward , I think that Ackroyd is right in his surmise that at this personal crisis he was able to help Eliot more effectively than some more ‘ tender ’ spirits might have done . |
| 23 | If , for example , she sometimes finds the superfluities of Godmersham amusing — ‘ At this present time I have five Tables , Eight & twenty Chairs & two fires all to myself ’ she none the less savours the ‘ luxurious sensation ’ of sitting ‘ in idleness over a good fire in a well-proportioned room ’ . |
| 24 | ‘ At this present moment they are engaged in a fully comprehensive training course using the systems run by the local college , on which I took the liberty of enrolling them . |
| 25 | At this present moment they 've got a blackout in Berlin and I bet it 's snowing . |
| 26 | At this low point I gave in and had my epidural topped up . |
| 27 | That even at this late date she 'd change her mind ? |
| 28 | Even though they are hellbent on privatising the coal industry , I hope that at this late stage they will take notice of the Committee 's report . |
| 29 | Bevin and Dalton agreed with Attlee 's views , although at this late stage they were doubtful whether the National Executive would agree . |
| 30 | At this early hour I was taking a final look at the layout of the course . |