Example sentences of "at [pers pn] [prep] [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A friend of mine Dave who wrote half the album with me and produced the album has been on at me for five years , come on let's make an album , let's make an album , let's make an album , making a , let's make an album er and a few record companies have come on and they 've always wanted me to do an album like maybe , let's prepackage old sixties ' songs and revise them , or let's do love themes from T V shows and which would never have interested me , so I said to Dave , you know when a record company comes with an offer to make an album , to do the album I wan na do then we 'll do one . |
| 2 | ‘ He looked at me with one of those amiable stares of his , said I was overworked and I should take some time off . |
| 3 | He stood holding the bridle of my horse and stared innocently up at me like one of the children from his own school room . |
| 4 | The rumour is one of the caretakers was happily waving at them for 5 minutes before somebody told him they were n't real . |
| 5 | He had then thrown stones at them for fifteen minutes before ordering a kit inspection for the rest of us . |
| 6 | On the 22nd , a major German attempt to capitalise on the Avocourt success was caught by brilliantly sited French machine guns , firing at them from three sides . |
| 7 | I 've always liked chickens — the way they hold their heads on one side and look up at you with one eye . |
| 8 | Cooper said : ‘ Would you be happy if someone jumped at you with two feet ? ’ |
| 9 | had a lot of stuff thrown at you in one go . |
| 10 | The man at her side wore sea boots and a thick white sweater , and he looked at her with one eyebrow raised , a small , teasing smile lifting the corners of his mouth . |
| 11 | She walked back into the house , and Piers glanced at her with one raised eyebrow . |
| 12 | He was looking at her with one eyebrow cocked . |
| 13 | You were together when you moved in though were n't you ? cos I remember you moving in like thinking cor look at her with three kids , yeah . |
| 14 | His ex-wife had cried at him for three years . |
| 15 | For the man looking at him through one natural eye and a lens in the socket of his other eye , the silver-haired man with a scar bisecting his cheek , to which he had sewn rubies so that the long-healed wound seemed still to gleam with blood — was none other than Baal Firenze . |
| 16 | He had only his sword , and my men were coming at him from one side , and Sapt and Fritz from the other . |
| 17 | He stared at the rows of glass jars below the books on the walls — and saw an eye staring back at him from one of them , and what could have been a human foetus in another . |
| 18 | You 've got to look at it at five years plus . |
| 19 | The papingo , measuring 8 inches from wingtip to wingtip , is still fixed to the end of a pole extending outwards from the top of the Abbey clock tower , and the archers must shoot vertically at it with one foot on the bottom step of the tower . |
| 20 | She held the envelope to the light , squinting at it with one eye while she tried to read the first paragraph . |
| 21 | Well I think you can look at it on two levels and one , one reason is to change the Party structure shake them up a bit , cos there 's , there 's evidence that they were erm you know moving to the right and allying with er rich peasants and landlords , and the other , on the level is actually having a policy which would get mass support and this obviously would require incentives in the form of land to peasants . |
| 22 | We had been at it for three months now . |
| 23 | But I 've been at it for 15 years . |
| 24 | if you get started you can , you palm , the pattern comes back and you follow it through and you get the answer , erm , need to do it every , maybe sort of about once a month or so , for each topic , do n't let a topic go for about a month without you looking at it for ten minutes or so , and it will be surprising how that little bit of effort keeps it in your mind , so when you come to the exam you do n't sit down there and go , oh , it 's two months ago , I was doing everyone right , wonderful |
| 25 | So it 's not , you 're looking at it as two . |
| 26 | ‘ If you think someone can work at his best at half past two in the morning after being at it since eight the day before you know nothing about human beings . |
| 27 | We 've been at it since six . ’ |
| 28 | She did n't have time to more than glance at it before two pairs of strong hands lifted her from the stools , and placed her unceremoniously on a table top . |
| 29 | The purpose of this afternoon 's session is basically we 're we 're sort of looking at it from two pronged attacked . |
| 30 | The problem , the problem with Germany is , as you say , they 're flooding the market , they 've , they 've gone at it from one end only . |