Example sentences of "[pos pn] [noun pl] at " in BNC.
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| 1 | Read had not been particularly interested in my political book ( which I had submitted to him in fulfilment of the option clause in my contract with Routledge , so I got together some more representative pieces and sent them to Eliot , no least because he had published my article on ‘ Philosophy and Politics ’ in The Criterion , and because I had again spoken about my plans at our first meeting after the war . |
| 2 | It was the summer 1989 when I went down to the golf club with a friend and played around with him after that I borrowed his clubs quite regularly and practised eventually mum & Dad chipped in and I bought myself a set of clubs well to be exact I bought myself a bag of three iron and a putter during the next two years I had saved up and built up my set of clubs until I had a half set of irons and 2 woods during that time I had always left my clubs at the golf club to save me taking the clubs to the course every time I played . |
| 3 | After a while I sat down in a secret place by the Cherwell and fell to musing about how I had once myself aspired to Oxford , how one of my lecturers at Edinburgh had urged me to go on to read for a B.Litt. there , but of course the war had put an end to any such ambitions . |
| 4 | Er he attended to me and I should n't have done but I looked at my notes at th bottom of the bed one day and it said , Interference denied . |
| 5 | I did n't use my notes at all . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ No sign of my notes at all . |
| 7 | ‘ No sign of my notes at all . ’ |
| 8 | Called out of meeting — dispute between Admin Officer and Social Worker re my cases at School . |
| 9 | You may not know , that I have had a book on philosophy published , and am working on another ; my superiors at London University College are pleased with me , and promotion seems probable . |
| 10 | Somehow this surprised me — not the word sod ( I 'd learned most of my swear-words at Addy 's knee ) but the word silly . |
| 11 | With my defences at their lowest I was in no state to withstand Shep . |
| 12 | ‘ I expected my times at Marseille to be measured in years and months , not weeks and days . |
| 13 | ‘ I would n't seek him out , but if by mischance he should loom up before me I should waggle my fingers at him . ’ |
| 14 | I ca n't recall , before , having had to peep through my fingers at Coronation Street as I did on Wednesday when Carmel , at the end of a riveting confrontation with Gail , plummeted down the stairs . |
| 15 | It may be my brain is getting fuddled despite my attempts at rejuvenation and I 'm imagining things . ’ |
| 16 | As head of an academic department ( Economics ) at McGill University , he had interested himself in student publications in the various universities across Canada , and he had some kind things to say about my attempts at humorous prose in the weekly ‘ Adventures of Dizzy Dick ’ . |
| 17 | We waited , sitting on the long benches in the out-patients ' waiting-room , Nigel staring straight ahead in what seemed an almost catatonic trance and ignoring any of my attempts at conversation . |
| 18 | ‘ A night out with John Minton , ’ Lehmann recorded in his diary in October 1951 , ‘ for which he arrived with a bunch of carnations in the wildest , gayest form , having been on a jag for three nights — and continued it that night in spite of my attempts at restraint ( which were spoiled by laughing all the time ) , flinging his arms about , shouting shrilly with highly risqué asseverations at the White Tower ( at which Tennessee [ Williams ] appeared for a hallucinatory moment ) , becoming embarrassingly affectionate and enthusiastic about me , and pouring money out for champagne in the Caribbean and another unidentified night club . ’ |
| 19 | Among my contemporaries at home — mostly middle class but not all — three quarters of them have emigrated : to Australia , Canada , USA and Britain . |
| 20 | I mean I have to pay for my books at the end of the year but that 's all . |
| 21 | I know it sounds stupid , but I was trying to do all my sessions at the same speed I was used to at home . |
| 22 | Do n't go to and left my kids at home . |
| 23 | I have my parties at work . |
| 24 | Monday was usually a busy day for me , when I talked to my clients at length and often had lunch with one of my various contacts in the City . |
| 25 | I shook my head and shrugged my shoulders at her , trying not to look into the child 's large eyes filling with tears as he gazed petulantly at me , his underlip thrust out . |
| 26 | She wrapped it round my shoulders at once , ignoring my protests , splashed the nice smell around , propped up a couple of magazines to combat the gloom , and divided the grapes into two bunches . |
| 27 | Sat there through the night , closing my eyes at times , then opening them slowly and allowing the glass to impose itself . |
| 28 | I would tut at people trying to climb in wellingtons , and roll my eyes at those in jeans . |
| 29 | I could try and describe to you the expression in my eyes at this moment ; but they are far too discoloured with rage . |
| 30 | and there 's nothing wrong with my eyes at all , they said dry . |