Example sentences of "[pers pn] occur at the [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Subjects spent longer reading words when they occurred at the end of a clause or a sentence .
2 All voiced sounds are likely to lose a certain amount of voicing when they occur at the end of a word or at the beginning .
3 For many weak-form words , when they occur at the end of a sentence .
4 We shall begin our investigation of how causative verbs interact with the infinitive in English by looking at the contrast between make and cause because , although these two verbs seem quite similar in meaning , they are not followed by the same form of the infinitive : ( 134 ) While most enzymes can not make a reaction occur that would not take place in their absence , they speed up reactions so that they occur at the temperatures and other conditions which prevail within living organisms .
5 Motion was conserved in the precise form in which it occurred at the instant of its preservation .
6 If it occurs at the beginning of a committee meeting where something is going to be pushed through and the agenda manipulated it can provoke the reaction , " … hypocrites " .
7 The sadness of what is in effect the breakup of the comprehensive system is that it occurs at the point when the system was reaching a confidence and maturity which demonstrated that it could meet the demands of the late twentieth century .
8 The starting point of ( 2c ) , these positions , is already known to the reader because it occurs at the end of sentence ( 1 ) .
9 In preposed theme , the gloss tag occurs at the beginning of the clause , in postposed theme , it occurs at the end of the clause .
10 A burning , thick discharge like cream , especially if it occurs at the time of the monthly period .
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