Example sentences of "at a [noun] [conj] [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The gaming world in part consists of four main islands ( there are rumours of more ! ) and this nicely breaks up the game and avoids the feeling of a bland and repetitive world , ( why does that Island concept ring a bell ? ) and you move from Island to Island by looking at a map and selecting your destination ( sounds VERY familiar ! ) . |
| 2 | The prime business of the eight members of the London Discount Market Association is to buy bills at a discount and hold them until redemption date , thereby taking a profit . |
| 3 | He drained it at a draught and threw it back , the dark mood that had kept him silent from Ivrigar falling away . |
| 4 | RJR 's credit rating is being ruined by junk bonds whose interest rates are supposed to be reset by May 1991 at a level that restores them to 100% of their issue prices . |
| 5 | Yes , in Vienna , a lady , I will not say her name but assure you that any conversation I had with poor little Mrs Crump was most decidedly not on this subject and not about this lady — she has clearly clutched at a reference and taken it for a confidence — in Vienna , this lady of , I may admit it , royal connection , formed an attachment for me which was not reciprocated but proved most difficult to disengage . |
| 6 | Since daylight was flooding into the world , I was able to stay at a distance and keep him in sight . |
| 7 | It 's often a case of people looking at a building and reading something into it . ’ |
| 8 | For example , it is very important for a wife who is also a busy mother to learn to speak the local language , but she may have no time for sitting at a desk and making her own drills or doing her own analysis . |
| 9 | TRANSPORT helpline clerk Bill Goulding was sacked after swearing at a caller and hurling his phone headset out of a window , an industrial tribunal heard yesterday . |
| 10 | Paintings erm have the power to take you back in time , I can look at a painting and remember something that 's happened yesterday or years and years ago and as a small child , looking at this painting I remembered as a small child seeing for the first time erm the sea dipping into er , sorry the sun dipping into , into the sea and being horrified I was convinced that the heat of the sun would boil the oceans and the world dry and it reminded me for an awful lot of my childhood and I 'm sure if I 'd seen this painting years ago it would of persuaded me otherwise , erm this is called In A Days Work Satisfaction in a days work , chosen not given , eating the laxed food , face turned to steer a sun , making cloth into a gown and giving colour to the side of a boat |
| 11 | It is important that you do your chosen exercise at a pace that makes you slightly breathless and increases your heart rate , but not so much that you can not maintain the exercise for at least twenty or thirty minutes . |
| 12 | The child 's own feelings were split between mortification at a christening that doomed him to live out for good a pun that he could already see to be gruesome and pride that his father had cared for him enough to embed him into his act by the very roots of his name . |
| 13 | everyone clusters appreciatively round your partner at a party and ignores you |
| 14 | Shultz had put his arm round him at a party and told him what a remarkable job he had done , keeping the Nicaraguan resistance alive : ‘ I knew what he meant . |
| 15 | They had recently been on separate holidays , met support workers ' families at their homes , danced at a party and had their photographs taken cuddling the few weeks ' old daughter of a woman Elizabeth met at church . |
| 16 | Hence the two highly ‘ cultured ’ individuals who meet at a party and find they have nothing in common to talk about . |
| 17 | Maybe he was looking at a book that told you things like that . |
| 18 | A thatcher can look at a roof and tell you who thatched it by the pattern . ’ |
| 19 | All of them have got a part to play , because we believe there are erm it 's a national problem , but the solutions are in each community different and we need the community to look at a situation and see what can be done on the ground , and I can give many examples of the sort of thing one has in mind . |
| 20 | This is what happens with tax exempt sources and by looking at a TESSA and assuming you pay the maximum each year which are those figures and assuming that the interest rate stays at seven and a half percent , it wo n't but it 's seven and a half percent at the moment , then this is what happens , at the end of the first year you 've put in your three thousand your interest at seven and a half percent is two twenty five and you would otherwise pay tax at fifty six at twenty five percent or twenty or forty which would be those figures , but you do n't . |
| 21 | We will call at a time that suits you — even if that 's an evening or a Sunday and we guarantee to repair or replace faulty equipment within 24 hours of your call . |
| 22 | Exercise at least 3 times a week at a time that suits you best . |
| 23 | Travel from your chosen departure point at a time that suits you . |
| 24 | You will have to change and dry the blotting paper frequently during the next few days , so either take a good stock with you , or carefully remove one sheet at a time and iron it dry before replacing it . |
| 25 | Suppose you are required to perform the simple task of placing each of a pile of twenty counters into a jam jar , picking up one counter at a time and dropping it into the jar . |
| 26 | Bring them in one at a time and show them a series of articles such as a pot , a plate , a flask and a small stool . |
| 27 | It felt an ordinary place , but my father 's friend , Billy Llewelyn , could play the saw , grow black carnations , go without sleep for three weeks at a time and expand his chest from thirty-six inches to fifty-two inches in three breaths . |
| 28 | It looks like they 're going to announce it by stealth , one pit at a time and take it right through the review procedure at three month stages . |
| 29 | Cold setting was carried out by selecting the characters one at a time and placing them in a compositor 's stick . |
| 30 | The function contains a loop which picks up one character at a time and classifies it . |