Example sentences of "[pron] at [num] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now I 've done removals before then , not so much now , but I at one time used to be out on the road doing removals myself very often and I would get in for about seven o'clock in the evening get a quick grab something to eat , rush round this place , put the fires on and get it ready . |
| 2 | ‘ He is not — nor is he likely to be as far as I can make out — although Matt dropped a hint that there had been someone at one stage . |
| 3 | High remuneration , excellent prospects and an immediate cash bonus await the successful applicant who will present himself at twelve noon today . |
| 4 | Eventually he finds himself at 500 feet , unable to see a good field ahead , unable to remember the wind direction , and trying to select a field with very little choice . |
| 5 | No unattached man , should he by some miracle present himself at Four Winds , would want to have anything to do with a dejected and increasingly agoraphobic young mother , still in her teens , and a baby whose fretfulness was beginning to get on even Harriet 's nerves . |
| 6 | In a long account of this hunt , Green refers to himself at one point as being in the ‘ plebeian party . ’ |
| 7 | He seated himself at one end , and Emily sat beside him . |
| 8 | They were published by Green himself at 3 Windmill Street , Manchester on the 19th January 1796 . |
| 9 | Meanwhile , in 1801 he had exhibited a portrait at the Royal Academy , and in the same year had established himself at 59 New Bond Street , at the corner of Brook Street , and published Rudiments of Landscape , a volume of uncoloured etchings after William 's drawings . |
| 10 | Batty went head first over the top of somebody at one point , thereby earing the rage of the City crowd . |
| 11 | Understandably , these fires — which at thirty shillings were cheap to buy and easy to install — were widely sold in their millions in the postwar years . |
| 12 | And towering above is Sgurr Alasdair which at 3,251 feet is the highest peak in the Cuillin . |
| 13 | The second disc finds him in the company of an enlarged band , basically his regular four piece augmented by the likes of keyboardist Chuck Leavell , Phil Palmer on guitar , percussionist Ray Cooper and singers Tessa Niles and Katie Kissoon , running through pieces like ‘ Wonderful Tonight ’ which at nine minutesplus is somewhat overextended . |
| 14 | Her first impression of the man she knew with a sinking feeling could only be Niall Grant was of strong , sun-tanned features which held her gaze as the blue eyes looked coolly into hers , and for the first time in her life her height , which at five feet eight inches had given her an advantage over a lot of men , suddenly seemed diminished . |
| 15 | The result is a predictably idealistic criticism which at one level contents itself with rapid reference to formalistic definitions , and at another assesses the products of socialist realism with imprecise criteria culled generally from a liberal bourgeois critical tradition . |
| 16 | Depending on how the aircraft is flown , if the mixture is leaned right off , fuel burn will go down to about 80 gallons an hour , but at maximum take-off power the aircraft will burn almost 300 gallons an hour , which at one gallon ever 12 seconds is quicker than one can get water out of a household tap ! |
| 17 | With the council now agreeing with the district auditor about the unlawfulness of the deals , which at one time involved a notional £6bn , the banks are the only parties arguing that the transactions should be enforced . |
| 18 | TODAY 'S excellent programme at Cheltenham has not been ruined by the hard ground to the extent which at one time appeared likely and there are two bonus runners , namely the champion hurdler , Beech Road in the Charles Heidsieck Champagne Bula Hurdle , and the Queen Mother Two Mile Champion Chase winner Barnbrook Again in the A.F.Budge Handicap Chase . |
| 19 | Had the Conservatives won the election by a whisker , which at one time seemed likely , they would probably have plumped for a Labour Speaker ( on the grounds that it took one vote off the Opposition ) . |
| 20 | At one end is the raised stone floor which at one time must have been a sleeping area . |
| 21 | Originally there was considerable variety among the cattle of Wales , which at one time included the Glamorgan , said to have been an ancient breed of doubtful origin , possibly partly Norman or from a Devon cross . |
| 22 | However , there can be problems , specifically because of the fashion for breeding it as small as possible , which at one time was taken to dangerous extremes . |
| 23 | This concludes attempts on the line , started by Paul Pritchard a couple of years ago , which at one time featured a glued-in peg in a pocket , although this was pretty short lived . |
| 24 | There remained only ‘ Z ’ Special Force , an undercover operation on the island run by Captains Broadhurst and Wylie , former members of the Malay police force , who organised native lookouts and a radio reporting system which at one time had 25 radio stations on the island , demonstrating how a few guerrillas may succeed in adverse local conditions where a larger force can not survive . |
| 25 | But he was taking far too many punches which at one time he would have slipped with ease . |
| 26 | Rowland used The Observer to fight non-media battles , notably over control of the Harrods store , which at one time had been part of the House of Fraser group . |
| 27 | It is important to note in this context that courts have an inherent power to permit anyone to act as advocate , though this is seldom exercised except for the massive exception which at one time allowed police officers to act as prosecutors in the magistrates ' courts . |
| 28 | Many of these insect-feeding birds have a line of bristles around their beaks which at one time were thought to channel weakly-flying insects into the open beak but now it seems more likely that they do no more than protect the birds ' eyes as they deliberately plunge through clouds of insects . |
| 29 | So the Fosse Way , which at one time had been the main road from medieval Coventry to Leicester , was ordered in the Sharnford award of 1765 to be ‘ of the same width as it hath heretofore usually been ’ . |
| 30 | One of the most widespread language families in Siberia was that now known as Samoed , the speakers of which at one time occupied a large part of southern Siberia from the Irtysh to the Yenisei , including the Altal-Sayan mountain region . |