Example sentences of "[conj] [pron] [verb] at the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mark : I ca n't say that to the same extent , but where I live at the moment I know a lot of people within five minutes ' walk and there are ten or fifteen gay people I know who live locally ; there are people I can visit without any great effort whatsoever , whom I 'm likely to meet in the shops . |
| 2 | ( I am angry over an act of injustice or I wonder at the sight of Niagara Falls or I am pleased with my Christmas present . ) |
| 3 | With a brief wave Lindsey hurried along the corridor towards the consulting-room , where she sat at the desk , taking several deep breaths to compose herself before calling for her first patient . |
| 4 | Do you that a child 's mind works in this way , as he or she looks at the world and finds meaning of in it , and are others who are influenced by their own experiences and by their conclusions of others . |
| 5 | Where we stopped at the junction . ’ |
| 6 | But have you got a form or something to get at the garage ? |
| 7 | Local folklore has it that in prehistoric times men drove wild cattle to their deaths over Combe Scar and ate them where they fell at the foot of the crag ( cattle bones are reputed to have been found there ) . |
| 8 | After the rehearsal they all , Miranda too , went to the Adelphi tea-rooms , where they laughed at the décor : " Straight from the thirties , darling . |
| 9 | or they stand at the bar . |
| 10 | He lives — with Judy , his wife of 24 years — in Ealing , West London , where he drinks at the cricket club and , along with the Kinnocks , is one of the local celebrities . |
| 11 | For example the owner of a motor vehicle can be said to use it where he sits at the side of the driver , who is not his employee and the vehicle is being used for his purpose ( Cobb v Williams [ 1973 ] RTR 1 13 ) . |
| 12 | A report on ( Hekmatyar 's ) Radio Message of Freedom on Sept. 24 said that former President Najibullah had been moved from the UN offices in Kabul ( where he fled at the outset of the fall of his regime ) to Mazar-i-Sharif " where he now lives under the intimidation and torture of leaders of the unholy coalition of the north " . |
| 13 | He made his first stage appearance as an actor at Wigan in The King of Terrors in 1900 , taking fourteen more years to make his way into the West End , where he arrived at the Empire Theatre in October 1914 in By Jingo If We Do . |
| 14 | The Syrians performed the task swiftly , and Aoun was forced to take refuge in the French embassy , where he remained at the end of the year . |
| 15 | I think he just figured he would n't do it — he 's in this big rock band and would n't think of doing it , although I think at the time Phil would have ! |
| 16 | It 's rather like the scene that I penned at the beginning of this column . |
| 17 | But here I am once again running into the kind of difficulty that I noted at the end of my last chapter when I quoted Christine Hugh-Jones ' apposite phrase about the work of the social anthropologist being a matter of sorting out the meaning of a " muddling mass " of detailed data . |
| 18 | The question I pose is the one that I asked at the beginning of my speech : do those in government and opposition have the courage to set about creating a new beginning to bring about peace , political stability , and an end to the tensions between Ireland and Britain , and can they bring the beginnings of hope for my constituents and the people in the north of Ireland ? |
| 19 | He gave me schnapps and insisted that I stay at the hotel the SS man had mentioned . |
| 20 | When I went to the Royal Courts of Justice , the judge knew what he was going to give me , and I got three years ' probation , on condition that I stay at the hostel for a year and that I attend a day centre . |
| 21 | Someone from a hostel in London came to see me and said they would have me , so when I went to court in Sheffield the judge decided to put me on bail for four weeks , on condition that I stayed at the hostel and that I did n't drink , and also if I attended the Jules Thorn psychiatric unit , which is part of St Pancras Hospital , for a ten-day assessment . |
| 22 | ‘ This is a warning that I flagged at the Council conference two years ago : where is the small firm going to be ? |
| 23 | the first thing that I do at the beginning of the lesson is one sec |
| 24 | Having failed dismally with a bicycle pump and an unidentified device that I found at the back of my Dad 's garden shed , I stumbled across what seemed like a promising routine and set aside the whole of Boxing Day to test it out . |
| 25 | The three glossed signs from transcript 1 ( KNOCKED , CAME , WHAT ? ) represent three propositions with the meaning that someone knocked at the door , the person inside came and tried to find out what it was . |
| 26 | At the simplest level this means deciding that someone wearing , say , a skirt in our society is female and acting on the basis of this decision , or deciding that someone shouting at the top of his or her voice is excited or angry and acting accordingly . |
| 27 | There are two possible ways in which the bells can be arranged so that someone arriving at the door can signal their arrival to a person in a specific apartment . |
| 28 | I went back at a slow run , glowing with energy and feeling even better than I had at the start of the Run . |
| 29 | Even if she did claim to know who it was we 'd find it difficult to convince a judge , without far more proof than I have at the moment . ’ |
| 30 | erm I 'd like to be able to present something in front of me which prompts me a bit better than I do at the moment I tend to get lost in what 's in front of me . |