Example sentences of "at [pron] [verb] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was against all he believed in and yet some inner part of him would stop at nothing to attract Jeopardy 's notice . |
| 2 | ‘ It 's apparent that Morrissey will STOP AT NOTHING to manufacture confrontations with the norm in order that The Smiths remain special . ’ |
| 3 | Adventure schools use them as centres , climbing clubs arrange meets at them ; the Army Camps around them with the bothy the designated ‘ mess tent ’ , and people hold 50th birthday parties at them to save marquee costs . |
| 4 | I was surprised at 'er marryin' Fred Bradley . |
| 5 | possible that Paul has had a already had a reply from the Destiny people , you know , the ap at my urging Paul joins these people to find himself another girl because I 'm so sick of hearing about Karen who 's treated him made a fool of him totally |
| 6 | When I found out the identity of the person owning or occupying the flat at I made enquiries at the police station 's department in that office erm they they keep records of any , any information about persons in the area and beyond . |
| 7 | The first recorded person trading as an undertaker per se is William Boyce , who opened a shop in c.1675 ‘ at ye WHIGHT HART & COFFIN , in ye Grate Ould Bayley , near Newgeat ’ . |
| 8 | And there are many others at which to point camera . |
| 9 | It is a good year , therefore , at which to take stock of the various proposals and identify a number of common themes . |
| 10 | Meetings of all RO 's marking particular grades are held , at which pencilled Reports are read out and discussed by all present . |
| 11 | Yet you can also measure the number of open files , how much correspondence is still waiting to be answered , the rate at which telephone calls are answered within the department , the initial claims against the settlements and therefore the gain or loss on estimates . |
| 12 | In the event , the sale total made £3.2 million , with thirty-three of the drawings fetching over £30,000 each ( then the level at which export licences were required , now standing at £35,000 ) . |
| 13 | It will be clear from this that a proper approach will locate not only the appropriate level at which to resolve issues , but also the appropriate problem-solver . |
| 14 | My memory is that Mario was dead right , that Hunt was ( correctly ) hogging the insides of the curves and that Mario had no choice but to go outside , at which point Hunt just moved over on him . |
| 15 | Eventually , the rate of interest will reach Oi 2 at which point firms and households are induced to hold the increased money supply in speculative balances . |
| 16 | At which point RISC will have to take over . |
| 17 | Two days before the concert , Fernie Quinn , the only capable oboist in the vicinity , was taken ill , at which point Lady Barbirolli , who was an oboe player of some renown in Britain , offered to take the part and filled in with considerable distinction . |
| 18 | There is a moment here when Fred Pearson 's Shotover ( looking like a raffish , siren-suited version of Shaw himself ) says of his daughter , Lady Utterword , that she is afraid that she has no heart to break : at which point Jennie Stoller 's stately , voluptuous Ariadne throws himself at his feet with a wrenching poignancy . |
| 19 | He scored 80 between lunch and tea , at which point India ( 252 for 6 ) needed another 120 to win . |
| 20 | A 5–2 lead did nothing to relax Jansher and Martin drew to 4–5 , at which point Jansher was warned to avoid physical contact with his opponent . |
| 21 | For Germany now had the chance to bring her new strength of purpose to bear against her real enemy — at which point Nietzsche introduced a reinterpretation of politics in cultural and philosophical terms which was to become characteristic of his mature thinking : the " real enemy " was modern superficiality , and Germany 's chance was to destroy it by relearning " tragic cognition " from the Greeks . |
| 22 | In his own interpretation , it is the advent of Christianity and its repudiation of the material that destroyed the harmony — at which point Hölderlin 's Christian allegiance engenders , in his greatest poetry , an antithesis , if not an actual conflict between his Greek ideal and the purely spiritual aspiration appropriate to his own Protestant background . |
| 23 | At which point Mr Gorbachev 's strategy of turning the USSR into a prosperous society in which intelligent Russians can take pride will be doomed . |
| 24 | Party officials half expected the trade talks to break down eventually , at which point Mr Abe would make his entrance . |
| 25 | Under the new scheme , CFCs and water are mixed in a reaction furnace and heated with a high-frequency electric current to about 10,000 degrees Centigrade , at which point electrons are stripped from the atoms to form a plasma . |
| 26 | Stock market sources said that the Hoare Govett buying dried up after about 60 million Ferranti shares had been traded , at which point Smith New Court stepped in and remained an aggressive buyer at 56p until the close . |
| 27 | Brando was called twice more before he returned , at which point Howard strode off in a rage . |
| 28 | The latter writes that he was a muderris in Bursa who then became a kadi , at which point Molla Fenari went to study under Kara Hoca in Iznik . |
| 29 | After four months back in traffic however , the discovery of further traces of blue asbestos on parts of the Pullman underframes , caused the set to be impounded again … at which point InterCity took the initiative to run its own refurbished VIP stock on the Scenic Land Cruise trains , albeit with Pullman Rail contracted to continue booking the trains . |
| 30 | At which point Malcolm explains that he was merely pretending , in order to test his countryman , who might have been an emissary of Macbeth 's : Duncan had trusted his kinsman , and host , and been murdered for his pains . |