Example sentences of "at [pron] [noun sg] for the " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is thus that I arrive at my multiplier for the whole life of eighteen . |
| 2 | He took me to a waiting Jaguar equipped with air conditioning , stereo system , and a very pretty girl : ‘ at my disposal for the rest of my stay ’ . |
| 3 | ‘ That 's why I 'm keeping her at my place for the moment . ’ |
| 4 | Safina Hussain and Huma Farooqui say they quickly signed up 25 students at their college for the ANL , and intend to continue spreading the message . |
| 5 | Loretta took out her diary , and looked at her schedule for the week . |
| 6 | She looked at her watch for the fourth time in two minutes . |
| 7 | She left him there , and went to have a bath : dressed briskly , went downstairs to inspect the damage , had a coffee , looked at her list for the day . |
| 8 | There was universal disgust at his work for the enemy . |
| 9 | ‘ unless a defendant is assured that information given in response to an order for disclosure can not and thus will not be used as evidence at his trial for the offences charged , he may well be entitled to refuse to supply the information on the ground that it would tend to incriminate him . |
| 10 | As junior to Craigie ( later Lord ) Aitchison [ q.v. ] he appeared for John Donald Merritt at his trial for the murder of his mother in 1927 , and for Oscar Slater at his appeal in 1928 . |
| 11 | Jake looked at his watch for the hundredth , maybe the five hundredth time . |
| 12 | It perhaps is typical of his approach that he held lavish dinner-parties at his home for the Ecclesiological Society , to which distinguished architects were invited . |
| 13 | He still intends to expand the breaks at his hotel for the creative community . |
| 14 | He was pacing back and forth , mulling over what he would say to her , when the biology student knocked at his door for the loan of a shilling for the gas-meter . |
| 15 | In this welcoming speech Mr M A Prouten , executive chairman of Brooke Marine , recalled that Searcher was not the first ship to be built at his yard for the Customs Department . |
| 16 | It was not a risk he was likely to take , even if it meant him staying at his desk for the next twenty-four hours . |
| 17 | At the time it had seemed both natural and civilised to celebrate the taking up of his directorship with a small private party at his house for the senior staff . |
| 18 | The commanding officer of the Army of the North , General Mola , had some 40,000 men at his disposal for the campaign , including a mixed Hispano-Italian unit , the Black Arrows , created after the battle of Guadalajara . |
| 19 | He introduced them to Mobuto then went on to explain that one of them would always be at his side for the duration of his visit . |
| 20 | ‘ As you yourself informed us last night , and the lord sheriff has since confirmed , to our endless regret , and surely to yours , the young man you so beguiled is now dead , here within our walls , and shall be at our charge for the rites due to him . |
| 21 | You can ask at your branch for the balance on your account , or even find it out using one of your bank 's automated machines . |