Example sentences of "[prep] [pron] [verb] at the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The greatest of the epilogues for me comes at the end of Don Quixote where Quixote says , ‘ I have battled , I have made mistakes , but I have lived my life as best I can according to the world as I see it , and now … ’ . |
| 2 | ‘ As I was blind , it was arranged for me to stay at the organiser 's house . |
| 3 | Yes there were criticism but it 's not appropriate for me to comment at the moment . |
| 4 | 56-56 Spencer , and came right towards me looking at the ground , then looking up quick as he must have sensed me . |
| 5 | Classes at the ‘ City Lit ’ , as it is affectionately known , are handled by a highly competent team of tutors , many of whom teach at the drama schools too . |
| 6 | They had two daughters , one of whom died at the age of thirty-eight , and one of whom , Stephanie , was to appear in the Gubbins oeuvre as The Awful Child , forever asking awkward questions . |
| 7 | They had two sons , the elder of whom died at the age of nineteen , and two daughters . |
| 8 | , Sir Percival Victor David Ezekiel , second baronet ( 1892–1964 ) , financier and sinophile , was born in Bombay 21 July 1892 , the fifth and youngest child in the family of three sons ( the elder two of whom died at the age of two ) and two daughters of ( Sir ) Sassoon Jacob David , later first baronet , cotton and yarn merchant , mill owner , and later founder and chairman of the Bank of India , and his wife Hannah , daughter of Elias David Sassoon , of Bombay . |
| 9 | Both of them looked at the stain on the carpet in silence . |
| 10 | But with the change of rules meaning Warwickshire have to let one of them go at the end of the season , which one will it be ? |
| 11 | ‘ The piste is like this , ’ said one of them kicking at the sand . |
| 12 | Erm , she started really by , well th well there is two of them involved at the time , but they started by reading a book on the subject and really just talking to me about it certainly , because I mean they really did n't understand , you know because food to them is just food , you know it was just some meal they had to eat because they were hungry and they could n't understand why I had got this whole thing completely distorted . |
| 13 | The truth is that as painters and as a man and a woman , they were engaged , during these years , in the same adventure which turned out to be more fatal than either of them realised at the time . |
| 14 | The first dazed rabbits came out ; two of them bleeding at the nose , looking otherwise unharmed but staggering , almost -falling . |
| 15 | Battle-weary after the 4 hour 42 minute match , which had finished , it was little wonder that the two of them embraced at the net as 15,000 rose as one to acclaim such magnificent entertainment . |
| 16 | Both of them smiled at the device . |
| 17 | ‘ Virtually all of them jumped at the opportunity to make a meaningful contribution to the scheme . ’ |
| 18 | All four cameras scheduled for use in this episode are positioned on their ‘ A ’ positions , three of them aimed at the set on which the first scene will be acted out . |
| 19 | There was a Gilbertine priory here ( the only purely English monastic order ) , traces of which survive at the south end of the village . |
| 20 | ‘ The Home Office has funded various research projects , one of which looked at the effect of murder on the victims ’ families ; this has enabled local schemes to help victims of the most serious crime . |
| 21 | These three places are equidistant and , if taken to fall on the circumference of a circle , can be seen to form three points of a decagon , the centre of which falls at the hamlet of Whiteleafed Oak , where Worcestershire , Herefordshire and Gloucestershire meet . |
| 22 | Direct binding of the recognition helix at the dyad also raises the question of how GH5 protects both entry and exit points of nucleosomal DNA with only two DNA-binding sites , one of which binds at the dyad . |
| 23 | ‘ Bragad wants the pair of you present at the council . |
| 24 | Before some of you scoff at the obscurity of such a subject , let me tell you what the preacher meant ( or rather what I think the preacher meant ) by it . |
| 25 | Her outburst had at least got some of her anger off her chest , but she was still a prisoner , and when fresh falls of snow were forecast she felt near the end of her tether at the prospect of being trapped any longer at Rocamar . |
| 26 | The IDA also supported the IIRS , expressing complete confidence in it and rejecting the criticism of it expressed at the meeting . |
| 27 | We do have a choice as to whether to make the connection or not , but , as I have said , unless one is aware of it forming at the time , the bond is likely to build up at the instinctive level . |
| 28 | Many of the people in the villages on the fringe of Dartmoor were afraid of what lay at the heart of the upland . |
| 29 | I think from my own personal preference I would very much like to have an understanding of what happens at the interface between solids and liquids , because this affects so many different branches of chemistry and physics _ the understanding of what happens at interfaces will govern the understanding of what makes things stick together , what makes catalysis occur , the nature of rocks even . |
| 30 | This book shows something of what has emerged out of religious interpretations of death , not as a history of death but as an indication of what lies at the root of the major religious traditions , lending to each its characteristic style . |