Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] at a " in BNC.
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| 31 | ‘ I 've obviously caught you at a bad moment . |
| 32 | ‘ He has no manners , eats like a peasant , talks like he needs salt on his marrow , and is as free with his smile as a tinker cheating you at a fair on a saint 's day . |
| 33 | Simon 's heavy tread moved about upstairs and his voice shouted something at a maid . |
| 34 | The VPP500 system features a series of 1.6 GigaFLOPS vector processors , in parallel configurations of from seven to 222 , offering performances of 11.2 to 355 GFLOPS — the nodes can be added one at a time . |
| 35 | If anaphors were to be resolved one at a time and left to right , nothing would yet have been done about ‘ him ’ , so the configurational contribution would be missed and reasoning would be inevitable . |
| 36 | The friend found one at a garage . |
| 37 | You 're eliminating one at a time . |
| 38 | This suggested they had been attacked one at a time , and taken by surprise , which reinforced the verdict that two and not four men were involved . |
| 39 | If , unusually , there is no time pressure , the targets can be approached one at a time in order of their relative attractiveness . |
| 40 | She looked into the eyes of this human peacock and found herself at a complete loss for words ; and he too seemed surprised by this girl who had agreed to be his bride : he looked up at her ( she was half a head taller than he ) in a way that she might have interpreted as hostile had she not been in too much of a turmoil herself to notice it . |
| 41 | She found herself at a loss for words . |
| 42 | He told the reporter , who was driven blindfold to meet him at a secret location , that gangsters doused one of his two sons with petrol and threatened to kill them both if he did not co-operate in the theft . |
| 43 | Georgiades had asked Owen to meet him at a donkey-vous beside the Ezbekiya Gardens . |
| 44 | I think you just caught him at a bad moment . |
| 45 | ‘ I know you and Niall did n't exactly get off to a good start , but if it 's any consolation you caught him at a bad time . |
| 46 | She felt she had learned nothing about him as a man , that in some secret way he was keeping her at a distance . |
| 47 | He 'd laughed at her , teased her , and succeeded in keeping her at a distance . |
| 48 | How could he do this to her — forever turning up when he was least expected and always managing to catch her at a disadvantage ? |
| 49 | He looked up from the desk , caught her at a moment when , against her will , tears had filled her eyes . |
| 50 | The Chinese believe that to stand on one leg while kicking with the other unbalances the practitioner and places him at a disadvantage . |
| 51 | They approached him at a steady pace as though unconcerned by his presence , but they went in single file , Allen with his hand lying lightly on the knife at his belt and Marian carrying her bow , strung , and with an arrow ready notched , lightly and inconspicuously in her left hand . |
| 52 | Could I have caught him at a bad moment , could he have mellowed , I could n't believe it . |
| 53 | This had dropped him at a garage in Cromcruach and had then mysteriously vanished before he could offer his thanks . |
| 54 | So impressed was I that I took Hellen to meet her at a later performance the same week . |
| 55 | ‘ You do n't see a carpenter saying he wo n't build a house because he does n't like what 's next door and he 's going to wait until there 's a house with 8.3 rooms and the sun has it at a certain angle and then he 'll pound his nails and he wants billing above the plumber . ’ |
| 56 | Any chariot may have an additional giant wolf to pull it at a cost of +4 points . |
| 57 | There was a small gap in the fence that was unaffected by the pile-up and we approached it at a forty-five degree angle . |
| 58 | The Labour administration approved the scheme wholeheartedly in 1986 , and used it at a public inquiry to try to oppose the imposition of more A-road architecture on the site approved by the previous Tory administration . |
| 59 | Many of the instrumental numbers were so relaxed , they looked like they were amusing themselves at a family party and when Harry told everyone to stand up as he bopped around the stage in his black silk suit , everyone did as they were told . |
| 60 | I can not say how strange it was , how peculiarly dead I felt , when I awoke to find myself at a distance from my father . |