Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [prep] [pers pn] at the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Great brutes , liable to trample all over you at the drop of a hat . ’ |
| 2 | Western attention was mostly directed towards the Kurds , who rose up against him at the same time , but the greater threat to Saddam and the heavier loss of life was Shiite , Not Kurdish . |
| 3 | ‘ I mean , ’ Magrit said apologetically , ‘ that we caught up with her at the ice-cliffs just beyond the perimeter . |
| 4 | Morton caught up with him at the crossroads . |
| 5 | The man had come up to her at the entrance to the library where she worked and just asked her . |
| 6 | He 'd run to follow it , missed it at the traffic lights , almost caught up with it at the next . |
| 7 | The pair looked like every motorist 's bad news — the guys who leap out at you at the lights and demand money for wiping a dirty rag over your windscreen . |
| 8 | The point I am making is that Poland was like some living body that had all the life blood sucked out of it at the end of the war . ’ |
| 9 | It is surrounded by buildings , the houses being built on to it at the eastern apse . |
| 10 | I enjoyed meeting up with you at the JNCC presentation on Monday evening and was impressed in particular by Lord Selbourne 's clear determination ( shared by all the country council chairmen ) to make the JNCC both an effective co-ordinating body between the councils and a strategic ‘ think tank ’ on issues where a UK or an international perspective is essential . |
| 11 | He came straight to us at the castle , and told us how he had found the body , and no question but he was greatly shaken and agitated , as well he might be , guilty or innocent . |
| 12 | I got on the bus at the terminus at the bottom of Avondale Buildings and rode it back and forth to the other end of the line , sitting on the top deck , not knowing where I was or what I was doing , until the conductor came up to me at the other terminus , after my fifth trip , and asked : ‘ You all right , mate ? ’ |
| 13 | I HAVE several times told the story of the lady who came up to me at the end of one of my lectures on the relationship between science and music and said , ‘ It 's all very well doing all these scientific tests on musical instruments but can you explain the tingle in the spine that some music produces ? ’ |
| 14 | ‘ I managed to get clear at Metropole but then Mick came up beside me at the Juniper chicane but I was n't going to be beaten at this stage and I just managed to hold on . ’ |
| 15 | Mr Pollard 's girlfriend Zoe Mitchell had met up with him at the pub . |
| 16 | On the narrow bridge he stood in front of her again , blocking her way , looking back past her at the House . |
| 17 | The most popular halting place on the Mallaig road occurs midway along it at the village of Glenfinnan where romance is allied to scenic beauty of a high order . |
| 18 | According to them she had been at school that day and came out with them at the usual time and , as far as they knew , had gone the usual way home . |
| 19 | ‘ Bulgarian women have babies in hedges , ’ he said , looking vaguely about him at the north end of Sixth Avenue . |
| 20 | I , I 've bought you back the whip and I 'm just about to start the other one , so hang on to it at the moment , cos I do n't like too many books around that I 've borrowed , I 've got two . |
| 21 | Scotland seem to have got away with it at the moment . |
| 22 | He spends all day on the practice ground sometimes and this paid off for him at the German Open . |
| 23 | Remembered the horrible , fair , insinuating Frome sidling up to her at the counter and suddenly , unexpectedly , braying out for the whole shop to hear in exaggerated cockney : ‘ Better not fatten him up too much , love , or he 'll be too heavy to baby-snatch . ’ |
| 24 | I 'm not going out with her at the moment . |
| 25 | She was going out with him at the beginning of this term |
| 26 | Standing on that base , felt as solid but as yet unexamined , he can look ahead of him at the task , which is writing , in possession of the means to carry out that task , which is his language , but suddenly that vision is revealed as fantasy . |
| 27 | On the other hand though I was really drunk so maybe I only remember it that way John turned round to me at the end and said , I ca n't understand you All the people I know , when they get pissed , they start fights , whereas you just seem really happy |
| 28 | For an instant , too , a detached sense of pity welled up inside him at the body 's seeming frailty in the face of its task ; could the slight , sloping shoulders carry the heavy burdens of leadership , the thin arms and bony wrists hold a long steady course ? |
| 29 | There seemed no limit now to what could go wrong ; panic welled up in her at the least excuse . |
| 30 | You know especially to me at the moment . |