Example sentences of "[pron] [adj] [noun] at the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I ask him to meet me that evening at the Three Pigeons . |
| 2 | Dianne was quite unaware of my sickening misgivings at the Bad Step and rightly so . |
| 3 | Well , if you 're going could you pick up my white jacket at the same time … |
| 4 | Wednesday , 24th : I flew in the morning from Delhi to Hyderabad , to begin my three-day stay at the Central Institute for English and Foreign Languages . |
| 5 | When I was ten years old I was taken by my parents to see my first play at the Royal Theatre . |
| 6 | ‘ I did n't want to stop during the race because it was my first attempt at the 400 metres hurdles and I wanted to get into the junior rankings , ’ she said . |
| 7 | Brian Harley had made his one mistake at the sixteenth by finding both a fairway bunker and one by the green and was still standing at four under . |
| 8 | I made a great nuisance of myself and , in the end , they resorted to the traditional method of dealing with trouble-makers : they asked me to stand for my own ward at the next local government elections . |
| 9 | I was trained for my new work at the main ARP centre in the Fulham Road . |
| 10 | I placed all my loyal guard at the previous Inquisitor 's service , did I not ? |
| 11 | In consequence of this move , this month will be my last attendance at the General Synod . |
| 12 | Beckett 's characters ‘ begin and end their fictional journey at the same place , in the same condition , and without having learned , discovered , or acquired the least knowledge about themselves and the world in which they exist ’ ( Federman 1965 : 4 ) . |
| 13 | They were sitting opposite each other in their usual places at the rectangular dinner table Katherine always set with tablecloth and candles and fresh flowers . |
| 14 | The announcement of the discovery was made by the Atomic Energy Commission in Washington and the same day , 28 December , the scientists gave a public presentation to their professional colleagues at the American Physical Society ( APS ) meeting in Monterey California . |
| 15 | Collaborated with Doris Lessing on The Making of the Representative for Planet * which received its European premiere at the English National Opera in 1988 . |
| 16 | The Vikings and their European role at the Grand Palais courtesy of the Council of Europe |
| 17 | According to press reports Karami believed that his government had been penalized by the West for its close links with Syria and for its strong commitment at the Middle East peace talks to an Israeli withdrawal from southern Lebanon . |
| 18 | Mrs Macpherson bit her blue lips with her artificial teeth and looked down her beaky nose at the bland , well-powdered face beside her . |
| 19 | Their total number at the 1981 census was about 168,000 , 90 per cent of whom are found in Serbia proper , Kosovo and Macedonia . |
| 20 | ‘ Irish swimming enjoyed its finest hour at the Olympic Pool this evening , ’ he wrote . |
| 21 | If employees are unable to sell their old properties at the same time as they commit themselves to buying a new one , they may need finance in the form of a bridging loan . |
| 22 | So Iran continues to uphold the territorial integrity of its old enemy at the same time as bombing it . |
| 23 | In ( 135 ) , although make would have been possible , the writer has chosen cause , and has thus felt it to be more appropriate to represent the subject of the verb ( " raising the temperature of a compound " ) as an external condition which sets off a reaction of decomposition in compounds rather than as an agent which exerts its causative action at the same time as the reaction occurs . |
| 24 | Norway 's project will be assessed by the IWC and its scientific committee at the next annual meeting in Scotland in June . |
| 25 | If there are two parties each putting forward programmes which they are pledged to carry out if elected to government , and which they are able to carry out because they possess sufficient internal cohesion , then the electorate in choosing a programme ( and a programme at that which has been drawn up to appeal to their interests ) mandates a party to carry out its programme and holds the party accountable for its adequate fulfillment at the next election . |
| 26 | ‘ Babies are n't her favourite subject at the best of times . |
| 27 | Gronberg , a powerful hitter who won the Rome Classic in the first tournament of the season , gathered an eagle and four of her six birdies at the long holes . |
| 28 | She reportedly was injured in her quarterfinal match at the French Open and received pain-killing injections before her semi-final and final matches . |
| 29 | On Tuesday , the Queen was wheeled out for her first-ever appearance at the European Parliament to give what the Guardian wittily described as the ‘ royal oui ’ to the EC . |
| 30 | The little girl to whom Wolfgang had impudently proposed marriage when they were children was now Queen of France ; and tales of her extravagant lifestyle at the glittering court of Versailles were stirring up murmurs of discontent among ordinary Frenchmen , setting alight a fuse which 11 years later was to blow not only France but much of Europe apart . |