Example sentences of "[pron] [modal v] at the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I must at the outset declare and interest . |
| 2 | I run fast as I can at the window , but it still wo n't break . |
| 3 | ‘ I 'm not sure that I can at the moment , ’ I said apologetically . |
| 4 | The nearest I can at the moment . |
| 5 | The nearest I can at the moment . |
| 6 | Next year the British candidate gained the throne of the Carnatic ; the directors of the French Company decided that Dupleix had been wasting their shareholders ' money , and in 1754 they recalled him , which must at the time have struck everybody as a prudent step to keep expenses down . |
| 7 | Er , and that , you , you 'll at the town cooking dinner , watching television , talking to my friend , or just roughly what you 're doing at that time that conversation took place , okay , at work , form , then make me a cup of tea , she was photo-copying , |
| 8 | As she reached her father 's house she walked straight in at the gate , which she hardly bothered to open quietly , and flung the stone as hard as she could at the glass of the bedroom window . |
| 9 | and that it was er er obviously going to be a cost-effective exercise to do it there and then , and er you both er canvassed as many councillors as you could at the time , all the committee Chairmen were , were involved , I do n't see that you could have done any more in the circumstances . |
| 10 | Where the petitioner is found not to be entitled to have presented a petition or wished to withdraw his petition or allow it to be dismissed or fails to attend on the hearing , the court may substitute as petitioner any creditor who has given notice of intention to appear , wishes to prosecute the petition and is a creditor who would at the date of presentation of the petition have been in a position himself to present a petition against the debtor ( ie is presently owed more than £750 ) ( r 6.30 ) . |
| 11 | But there was no one more popular than Rambling Sid Rumpoe , the folk singer , who would at the drop of a mangelwurzel sing ‘ The Runcorne Splodcobblers Song ’ , sung by the splodcobblers of Runcorne as they thump their cordwaggle bellow afore cobbling their splods . |
| 12 | You can at the back . |
| 13 | If today we can see better than we could at the time the agonized grandeur of the figure of Pope Paul , the one almost ‘ liberal ’ pope of modern times , we can also see how deeply uncertain was the Church he left behind him and — after twelve years — we begin too to be able to assess in its very different character the pontificate of John Paul II . |
| 14 | For the next 2½ years we spent as much time as we could at the melin . |
| 15 | It was by then too late to make for the safety of the mountains , and the scattered groups of jeeps had to hide as best they could at the foot of the escarpment . |
| 16 | Arran himself had joined Beaton and the dowager at the end of 1544 , when they ‘ promised and made bond to the French ambassador , that the French king shall have the young queen , to marry where he list … and also that they shall at the spring of the year , send both the young queen and the old ( Mary of Guise ) into France ’ . |
| 17 | 10.1 The Academic Parties undertake that as respects copyright and other intellectual property rights in any items comprising technical information in respect of their results they will at the request and cost of the Non-academic Parties to this Agreement assign to and execute and do all such deeds acts matters and things as may be requisite for vesting such rights in an Non-academic Party either along or jointly with other Non-academic Parties to this Agreement . |
| 18 | There 's another public site at Hinksey Hill , which is very new , where they 've settled well , and there is about to be a private site out at Frilford , and that site will allow the Vale to be designated and that means that people who are encamped illegally in laybys and bridleways and grass verges can be moved on much more quickly than they can at the moment erm and if we 're not careful they 'll all be moving into West Oxfordshire . |
| 19 | Then I heard how he lived hand to mouth in the Bronx , lobbying whom he could at the talking-shop . |
| 20 | He washed himself as best he could at the sink in the bathroom . |
| 21 | Where the agent has a retainer of the type which I have previously mentioned he will at the beginning of the session report to the clients on the latent , as well as the obvious , dangers to that client of a-particular Bill or order . |