Example sentences of "[noun] [adv] [verb] [pron] [verb] at " in BNC.
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| 1 | In a business where fees are usually paid on a success only , rather than an hourly , basis , this may come a bit hard to people who have worked hard for two or three months on a deal only to see it fall at the last hurdle . |
| 2 | However , selection for opportunities outside affects what happens at school . |
| 3 | The bed , with its cream lace counterpane , was huge and comfortable , and the antique wardrobe , original fireplace and generous sofas piled high with cushions immediately made us feel at home . |
| 4 | What happens at home invariably affects what happens at work . |
| 5 | Still , even when Grigorovich refused three years ago to let her guest at the Royal Ballet , she did what she was told . |
| 6 | Persian values also made themselves felt at native satrapal courts : a recently published Greek verse inscription from Lycian Xanthos , put up by a local dynast , echoes Persian educational ideals ( ‘ riding , shooting and speaking the truth ’ , Hdt. i. 136 ) when it speaks of : The dynast in question is called Arbinas : he is certainly a Lycian but it is thought that the form of the name is Persian . |
| 7 | Poulantzas thus constructs what appears at first to be a morass of categories in continual flux ; but he then extracts from it a pattern of relations which he regards as constant . |
| 8 | Both national survey data and smaller in-depth studies now enable us to document at least some of the financial effects of care-giving on women , although we still know very little about the consequences for women who begin or continue to give care in their own old age , or about the experiences of Black women carers . |
| 9 | Keen mountaineer Thomas Hargreaves , 39 , left to go on a day 's hiking in an area frequented by grizzly bears last Thursday , but friends only reported him missing at the weekend . |
| 10 | Police now reveal he called at the house shortly after that . |
| 11 | Biting her lip hard to prevent herself screaming at him to stop sitting there like some damned great Buddha she busied herself finding soap powder for the machine , and in her agitation knocked the packet over , spilling powder all over the floor . |
| 12 | If we take the trouble to make a permanent magnet we would like to have access to the magnetic flux so let us look at the more practical case ( Fig. 3.11(b) ) when a narrow gap is cut into the magnet . |
| 13 | When the firemen finally arrived I pointed at the sacrificial pyre still burning and burbled something about my priceless slide-collection . |