Example sentences of "at [adj] [pers pn] [modal v] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What I say , like you say , at fifty you should be settling down . |
| 2 | While we 're getting married at least we can invite the kids to the wedding she goes cos I 'm upset too she goes let me comb your hair oi Mum ! |
| 3 | Next Friday at eleven I will go over it all again in the lecture . |
| 4 | I thought that since the recital is to start at 7.30 you might all like something a little substantial before we set out . |
| 5 | At thirty-seven she could only say for sure who she was not and she felt that time was running out . |
| 6 | But before we look at that we must first turn to examine the record in a little more detail . |
| 7 | You 'll find the little diagram showing you where the pulmonary vein and the pulmonary artery are on page eleven , page eleven if you want to refer to it right , if you want to look at it in a closer detail tonight that 's fine and if you want to see what I 'm saying now in a diagrammatic form look on page thirteen now if you look at that you 'll see some , the blue vein blood vessels it 's coming out of the right hand side of the heart and if you look at the direction of the arrows , okay , they 're going away from the heart , do you agree with me ? |
| 8 | I thought cor blimey it 's a wonder he can walk look at that you would n't believe that today would you nineteen ninety two oh no wonder they all come over here , is so really , ca n't blame them if that 's the sort of quality of life they 've got |
| 9 | you 're good at that you can get marks in lots of subjects |
| 10 | I reckon gosh look at that you can get a Tefal food processor it was thirty three ninety nine for twenty four forty nine at Comets , there 's a telephone answering machine |
| 11 | At six-thirty he would turn up with a large jug of the club cocktail , for it was a tradition that committee meetings ended with a toast to the club in its own tipple . |
| 12 | At this they would leave their trades and rush to join the fourteen ‘ seine ’ boats and the fourteen ‘ volyers ’ that followed the seine boats in pursuit of the shoals . |
| 13 | Now , at this you may not have sympathy for that but it 's significant in circles I 've seen that you just do n't that Johnson has bothered to write out exactly how that play should be acted out , he 's trying to stay in control of his plays . |
| 14 | Erm , if you look at this you can see it 's set out first of all in escalating premiums and level premiums , O K , that 's straightforward enough . |
| 15 | Look at this it might be three ninety nine , but I 'll get it |
| 16 | Thus we can see the expanded negative reproduction appearing , as Bukharin posited. if we compare the progress of the schemas above with the results if g' had continued at 0.1 we should find that in PP4 W = 23,958 as opposed to the actual 19,073 . |
| 17 | As for Pemberton , at 250,000 he must rank as one of Wilko 's best buys . |
| 18 | Even if we left here at six we would n't get a table . |
| 19 | And if he 'd have needed me at six he 'd have got me up at five . |
| 20 | At six he could solve complicated mathematical equations and play chess at an advanced level . |
| 21 | The imponderables of the race make it what it is , a graveyard for favourites for a start , and if Old Applejack goes to the line at 50–1 it can be persuasively argued that he is a better bet than Cool Ground at 6–1 . |
| 22 | When I 've seen his father and confirmed that he made that call at eight-forty-five we may be able to narrow it down . |
| 23 | Take us and Europe now , is n't it odd that , after two world wars , in which our men who died , our nations sacrificed themselves in fighting what was thought to be the great German danger , we now find ourselves at least as much hostile to our allies in both of those wars — the French — as we do to the Germans , and if one could measure this sort of thing it might well be that in the British public at large you would find more sympathy towards the Germans than the French . |
| 24 | Similarly , if we take two speakers at random we will almost certainly find that one speaker typically speaks with lower pitch than the other ; the difference between the two speakers is not linguistically significant because their habitual pitch level is determined by their physical structure . |
| 25 | and then I can take you home afterwards , see if it finishes at three I wo n't be home till quarter to four at the earliest |
| 26 | If a bird pecks at these it will probably only make a small tear in the edge of the wing and the butterfly may then escape . |
| 27 | If they change their minds , the most they can expect is their funds returned without interest ; at worst they could lose some or all of their money . |
| 28 | At worst they could be clumsy and inexperienced and you could be patronizing and condescending . |
| 29 | At worst they could often act in parallel . |
| 30 | ‘ At worst they could virtually finish the liner shipping industry in Europe . |