Example sentences of "from [pron] [noun] at a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Three or four times they varied the system to pull me from my palliasse at a dead hour of the morning-about three-thirty or four a.m . |
| 2 | One can find examples of paper that has become so brittle that pages break away from their binding at a touch , and if anyone tries to handle the pages pieces break off . |
| 3 | Some 300 armed white farmers associated with the neo-fascist Afrikaner Resistance Movement led by Eugene Terreblanche were fired on by police protecting black squatters from their attack at a settlement near Ventersdorp , 120 km west of Johannesburg , on May 11 . |
| 4 | REFUGEE CHILDREN WAVE FROM THEIR CHALETS AT A HOLIDAY CAMP IN DOVERCOURT PHOTO : WIENER LIBRARY |
| 5 | In this , its heyday , the King 's Road fluttered , like a gypsy encampment , with hastily-dyed finery , while stage folk emerged from their beds at a given hour , to patrol the long pavements between Sloane Square and the Town Hall . |
| 6 | Most employers have required women to retire from their jobs at a ‘ normal ’ pensionable age of 60 , whereas a much greater number of men are permitted to remain until 65 , despite trends towards earlier retirement . |
| 7 | This was a good example , Dexter thought , of Blanche being unwilling to exclude someone from their investigation at an early stage so that they could concentrate their efforts . |
| 8 | My Lady Dedlock ( who is childless ) , looking out in the early twilight from her boudoir at a keeper 's lodge , and seeing the light of a fire upon the latticed panes , and smoke rising from the chimney , and a child , chased by a woman , running out into the rain to meet the shining figure of a wrapped-up man coming through the gate , has been put quite out of temper . |
| 9 | A CHILDLESS woman was sacked from her job at a private hospital after she took time off to recover from the loss of surrogate twins , it was said . |
| 10 | Anyone trying to escape undetected from the house , and heading for the village , would have to emerge from his cover at a point approximately half-way up the drive , or attempt to climb a very high wall . |
| 11 | Our mail gig party consisted of the Highlander who owned the dog , a woman with a very large bundle , a young man just home from his studies at a school in Germany , going to join a family party at Gairloch , and two men I would judge to be shepherds , possibly coming from Muir of Ord after selling their sheep . |
| 12 | AN Olympic swimming coach was suspended from his post at a top public school yesterday as police probed allegations of inde-cent assault . |
| 13 | All irritation seemingly forgotten , he leant forward in his chair and smiled at James Grierson — one of his most stunning smiles that seemed to wipe the cruelly from his face at a stroke . |
| 14 | His caravan site is a quarter of a mile up the valley from his house at a place called Miller 's Bottom — here , it 's marked . |
| 15 | He decided to make his hobby his business afterbeing made redundant from his job at a Banbury printing works . |
| 16 | As they approached , Reni rose from his seat at a table near the large rectangular pool which was the centrepiece of what — as Huy now saw it to be — was an unconventionally asymmetrical garden . |
| 17 | Otherwise it will be even more distressing for the dog to be ejected from your room at a later stage , when it is older . |