Example sentences of "[pron] at [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You see they did n't do things then that they would have done today , you see , seven years and you see I at that time , well I used to used to have a day off and instead of having a half day a week we used to have full day a fortnight and so of course on my day off I came home to see what I can do to help , you see and er my mother died . |
| 2 | If I actually follow you down the street in order to be sure that you do n't throw it away or forget to post it , for instance , then I at one and the same time become certain that you 've posted it and display a lack of faith that you will do so . |
| 3 | Now I 've done removals before then , not so much now , but I at one time used to be out on the road doing removals myself very often and I would get in for about seven o'clock in the evening get a quick grab something to eat , rush round this place , put the fires on and get it ready . |
| 4 | They would ask me into their classes to watch them teach ; they gave me time for interviews ; they allowed me into staff meetings and departmental meetings and I at various points in my research I erm attempted to feed back to them some of the material that I was coming up with , and we would have meetings to discuss this and I would erm use those meetings then to refine my ideas . |
| 5 | Now I can tell you a little , one final remark , I at five thirty this afternoon met Mr , Mr , Councillor , Councillor , Councillor at five thirty to discuss the delay in dealing with this application . |
| 6 | Anyway to finish that story about stopping and starting , I stopped there for fifty years and me mother was still alive when er when I at ninety three and when I retired in nineteen seventy nine , nineteen eighty I told me mum that I was finishing and she looked at me I told you that job would n't last and I , I , I mean I 'd done fifty years all but a few months . |
| 7 | I have meant to write to you a hundred times during the last three weeks but at all hours of the day I have been busied with teaching and beating and supervising footballings until when at last after all the animals were caged up and I at last had some peace , I have been too sad & too weary to write anything . |
| 8 | It cost pounds in 1946 , but when I at last got it , I could write underwater . |
| 9 | After I 'd kissed her goodbye I felt pretty happy because not only had I at last had an extremely enjoyable sexual experience , but I 'd also been able to give enjoyment . |
| 10 | Only as the cloverleaf began to appear as a grey shape in the otherwise black wall did I at last fall into a dream-wracked sleep . |
| 11 | He wrote : " I at last scarce ever went out and nothing occupied my thought but how to escape from this bloody country . " |
| 12 | So I have to say that though I at this moment very close to this in the smallest county of England I have also had experience in three other major counties in mainland England er and I have found the same experience the difficulty of finding people who will even be councillors or magistrates , let alone these other jobs that the er that the er Home Secretary seeks to find . |
| 13 | I 've got a bit of a conflict of interest here straightaway because the actual case that Roy is talking about is actually my brother and I at this moment have been complaining to the Lloyds Policy Unit in respect of erm this particular policy , because the company that was actually trading went into liquidation . |
| 14 | all that 's been disclosed is one as far as I know , erm your Lordship can see that I at some stage need to have a look at them , er before I complete in any way so I can cross examine Mr er my Lord may I just say this , on the seventeenth of November , that 's two days ago , we asked for the documents of the necessary twelve M P's two days ago |
| 15 | So you can actually er say that someone at sixty five will live slightly longer than the figures on the on the board here . |
| 16 | Also now and then someone at one of the two tables might look at the other table with a sneer or an ugly remark . |
| 17 | ‘ He is not — nor is he likely to be as far as I can make out — although Matt dropped a hint that there had been someone at one stage . |
| 18 | Someone at general command had a great idea , a cheap-rate sequel to GI Blues in which a young Scottish footballer plays the part of a handsome conscript . |
| 19 | Although the latter cases are probably a diminishing minority , especially now that budgetary delegation under LMS has made it essential that heads in their turn delegate a greater proportion of their managerial functions to senior staff , our studies indicate a more general need for primary schools to continue to review the role of deputy headship , to define more exactly the range of tasks it is appropriate for someone at that level of seniority to undertake , and to ensure that all deputy heads have appropriate job specifications . |
| 20 | But the , you know it 's two o'clock in the morning and police car 's coming through the village and see someone at that time , they 're quite likely to stop and ask them what they 're doing . |
| 21 | A tape recording , taken by someone at that meeting suggests that an agreement was made to compensate the disillusioned traders . |
| 22 | I was a someone at last . |
| 23 | Last year someone at last cracked the tide mystery . |
| 24 | I thought , ‘ Oh my God , I 've found someone at last that really does care for me . ’ |
| 25 | ‘ Yes — keep your fingers crossed — I think I 've actually found someone at last , ’ she told him with a thankful sigh . |
| 26 | They have to report to someone at parliamentary level when they have completed their analyses . |
| 27 | ‘ If there is someone at large who confronts women , then of course we are concerned . |
| 28 | Someone at Head Office needs to do a quick bit of thinking here : to couple an outstanding Appalachian Spring with this twaddle is not only an insult to Dennis Russell Davies and his superb musicians , but also to the prospective purchaser of this disc . |
| 29 | Now they may have their own reasons for that and it may be difficult for them to send someone at this precise moment , but I do n't think that they 're necessarily geared up to dealing with the sorts of things that you want them to deal with . |
| 30 | The point of issue is that estuary and coastal zone management is a reality and what seems to be happening is all sorts of different plans are popping up on various estuaries and Geoff knows them well now because he 's been involved with the one on the Stour and Orwell and what is happening is that these are starting at local level so the first contact with sailors may be from a local authority or someone at local level . |