Example sentences of "at [pron] [verb] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Fielding deeply disapproved of the Ashbery , I knew , and was always on at me to take a suite , or a floor , of the Bartleby or the Gustave on Central Park South . |
| 2 | My dad , he thought she ought to do it , and he was amazed at me taking a stand . " |
| 3 | He was always on at me to become a cab driver or something . |
| 4 | ‘ Well , ’ the Doctor began , ‘ first I 've got your General Fakrid barking at me to find a way to polish off these eight twelves . |
| 5 | ‘ The people behind it are white , middle-aged , career criminals , real toe-rags who will stop at nothing to make a profit . |
| 6 | Unbelievably , there are some among us who will stop at nothing to keep a game on . |
| 7 | As in fact I had a go at that I had a go at I had a go at them about another prod er another photograph . |
| 8 | This narrowing or furring up of the arteries can slow down the flow of the blood to your heart ( giving rise to the condition known as angina ) or even cut off the supply completely , at which point a heart attack then occurs . |
| 9 | Close on line monitoring of the effects of interferon on viral replication revealed that in several patients HBeAg and HBV-DNA serum values decreased continuously and were almost negative when treatment was stopped ( week 24 ) at which point a relapse occurred . |
| 10 | At which point a child says , " It 's alright , I 've brought a magic spade with me . |
| 11 | The most efficient point at which to identify a word is thus after hearing the phoneme at which the word first differs from every other word in English . |
| 12 | At a case status hearing on 17 August , the court appointed a public defender to represent him and then adjourned the proceedings until a further status hearing on 3 January 1991 , at which time a trial date would be set . |
| 13 | The choice of the right level at which to study a phenomenon is as important a strategic decision in biology as is the choice of the right organism or the appropriate control experiment , and it affects present-day research just as much as it did twenty years ago . |
| 14 | Cecil and Michael are a good point at which to resume a discussion of the new cruelty ( if only because there 's nothing chic or otherwise important to be said about either ) . |
| 15 | In any case , even if she had been a skilled charmer it was not possible to allure somebody who slashed back at you like a master swordsman and drove the point in . |
| 16 | Everything came at you like a meteor , blasting out sound and colour and light . |
| 17 | At one meeting a chairman blithely told me as he went on to the platform that they would have the National Anthem at the end , changing his mind without consulting me first . |
| 18 | I can not remember but I do recall thinking he must be sharing my feelings of pity and anger at whoever felt a need to make their mark in such a way . |
| 19 | Supposing the audience laughed at her playing a soubrette role . |
| 20 | Look at him digging a bag of bones somewhere ! |
| 21 | Others say that the resemblance one notices is between sensations , and that what one means when one says something is white is that a sensation one has on looking at it resembles a sensation one has had before and to which one gave the name ‘ sensation of white ’ . |
| 22 | Gillian Harris looks at what constitutes a success in the eyes of the publishing trade and the book-buying public . |
| 23 | Local Management of Schools also raises the problem of how extensively and at what costs a teaching post should be advertised ? |
| 24 | In terms of the process erm we are the first er major service committee to consider its budget for next year and I think everyone will be looking at us to set a pattern for the rest of this week . |