Example sentences of "[subord] [subord] [pers pn] [verb] [pron] at " in BNC.
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| 1 | You will have realized , for example , that if you crunch your car into your neighbour 's gatepost at 20 miles an hour you will do much more damage than if you nudge it at 10 . |
| 2 | Cos I remember once when they asked me at work to deliver the annual speech you know the man that asked me he says er , you know , they 've gone round everybody else and nobody else would do it and would I do it , and I said good lord , that were my first reaction , and I realized like all the company secretaries lo lord , so I did very well there |
| 3 | Do n't you have to do you no cos if you trim them at the top to bush out |
| 4 | I think on balance I mi I my advice is that we do nothing , just wait and see if whether he contacts you at all . |
| 5 | because if you force them at all , it does n't work . |
| 6 | It was strange , the conversation Dad and I had , because when I saw him at home later and over the next few days he behaved as if it had never happened , as if he had n't told me he 'd fallen in love with someone else . |
| 7 | He said this with a certain measured diffidence , as though it meant nothing at all to him , and was just a casual observation . |
| 8 | ‘ It 's now coming up for its 12,000 mile service , and does n't feel as though it needs it at all . |
| 9 | He awkwardly unlocked the door and carried her to the sofa , laying her down as though she weighed nothing at all . |
| 10 | He flung the guitar on to a chair , and bent down to pick Shelley up bodily instead , lifting her as though she weighed nothing at all . |
| 11 | He held her in his arms , still and warm , and after a while in that darkness he felt as though he held nothing at all ; it was like when a limb , having been left in the same position for too long a time , somehow loses all reference to the body , and for those instants before some willed movement the very location and attitude of that arm or leg is quite unknown . |