Example sentences of "[prep] [pron] [noun] [verb] at " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some two thirds of women for whom incontinence occurs at least weekly regularly wear some sort of protection ( such as a pad ) before leaving home . |
| 2 | That 's true , er it would be also I think irresponsible for my side to point at oil companies or this or that operator . |
| 3 | Too quickly , for my mother looked at me as I put them on the table . |
| 4 | One boy called Haile Nehari actually escaped from prison — he had been put there after his sling-shot aimed at a pigeon hit an Ethiopian soldier instead . |
| 5 | He went to a party after his mother collapsed at their home in West London and even invited two school pals to stay . |
| 6 | And that , inevitably , casts doubts about their ability to survive at a higher level . |
| 7 | Where there are definite intuitions about which elements belong at a given level , we may speak of substantive levels . |
| 8 | Mother Hilary may well be the one to shed those tears , but she is also a realist who realises that for her daughter to achieve at the sport she loves , she needed to leave home . |
| 9 | Any love she had for her husband disappeared at that moment . |
| 10 | Emphasis is laid on improving and acquiring language skills , and all postgraduates are required to attend a senior course in Hebrew texts in their first year and during their course to learn at least one of the following languages : Postbiblical Hebrew , Akkadian , Ugaritic , Phoenician , Aramaic , Syriac . |
| 11 | The opponents have a confident sounding auction to a six diamond contract , during which South showed at least a five and probably a six card diamond suit . |
| 12 | Devon County Council , for example , has incorporated into its structure plan a policy for its coastline aimed at providing a consistent degree of protection among its five maritime District Councils . |
| 13 | The dark cleft between her breasts sucked at him . |
| 14 | I very much hope that we will soon move forward to see permanence units which employ staff equally for their ability to work at getting a child back with natural families as for their skills in working with substitute new families . |
| 15 | Throughout the dispute , unpaid ambulance staff suspended for their action remained at their posts in order to provide emergency cover . |
| 16 | But afterwards , I found myself in the dim bathroom of my hut staring at a haunted face . |
| 17 | One of my clients registered at Companies House a company under the name Larry Small Pizza Parlour Limited . |
| 18 | Erm I would like to remind you of my objectives quoted at the time in th in the quality manual . |
| 19 | And I would like to you , remind you of my objectives quoted at that time and as are stated in the er manual . |
| 20 | In every case , their work is illustrated by important historical material among which is Bruce Nauman 's ‘ Neon templates of the left half of my body taken at ten inch intervals ’ , a large felt work by Robert Morris , the Fibonacci igloo of Mario Merz and major works by Joseph Beuys , Marcel Broodthaers , Luciano Fabro , Eva Hesse and Robert Smithson . |
| 21 | People whose wealth consists mainly of real property , on the other hand , are likely to find that the value of their wealth rises at least as rapidly as the general price level . |
| 22 | Miners may now keep 20% of their output to sell at free-market prices . |
| 23 | Another example of the rule against prior restraint is the Voluntary Euthanasia Society case ( see p11 above ) where the Attorney-General was refused an injunction against a publication whose authors were entitled to have the legality of their actions decided at a trial before a jury . |
| 24 | Everything I read , everything I hear , everything I see informs me that doubt , disease and distress in all the subtlest malignancies of their forms have at last invaded the cropped lawn and the sleepy garden wail . |
| 25 | or where the advanced society shows signs of vulnerability in its central value-system , pluralist methods may fail to fully explain persistent conflict because of their limited assumptions of causality and , in particular , because of their unwillingness to look at other manifestations of power in society . |
| 26 | Phil Bell ; and student Claire Taylor from Belfast 's Queens University Air Squadron had pulled off a textbook forced landing when the engine of their Bulldog quit at 800 feet , a Puma from Leuchars was summoned to recover the undamaged trainer . |
| 27 | Under the electoral law no other parties retained legal status because of their failure to win at least 1.5 per cent of the vote in elections held in February 1990 . |
| 28 | The petitioning creditor must prepare for the hearing a list of all those creditors who have given notice of their intention to appear at the hearing and hand it in at the hearing(r6.24) . |
| 29 | Nearly everyone has a snapshot of their dog caught at some amusing moment , and now is your chance to have it distributed nationwide in a leaflet or on a greeting card . |
| 30 | As a practical expression of this sympathy " the Port of London Authority at once conceded the demands of the strikers , and absolutely refused to give any facilities for housing , feeding and protecting the Free Labourers inside the Docks in the exercise of their right to continue at their work " . |