Example sentences of "[conj] [pers pn] [verb] [pron] at " in BNC.
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| 31 | When faced with that choice this summer , I chose to encourage people to continue to develop computerisation in primary health care rather than simply to reward directly those who did something very valuable — there is no doubt about that , or about the fact that they did it at their own risk — some years ago . |
| 32 | So terrified of doing the wrong thing that they do nothing at all — except bleat like sheep about their petty rules and regulations and their morality . |
| 33 | Moreover , such texts are the more dangerous in that they affect us at a subconscious level . |
| 34 | she goes to part-time so they get it at a reduced rate . |
| 35 | But although he aimed it at Nicholas , it fired into the air , for the boy knocked it sideways and held it . |
| 36 | I 've already revealed that I started out in a donkey jacket , but I should add that it took me at least ten years to get a decent kit . |
| 37 | In the absence of legal criteria that distinguish constitutional law from other laws , the definition becomes so broad that it defines nothing at all . |
| 38 | The terms of this argument repeat exactly those of the critical debate about univocal meaning , according to which the only alternative to the idea that history has a single meaning must be that it has none at all . |
| 39 | A quick glance at him showed her that he thought nothing at all of a drive like this , clinging to the mountainside and driving much too fast . |
| 40 | As Branson would have been the first to acknowledge , common sense dictated that he avoid it at all costs . |
| 41 | Her memoirs formed the inspiration for the film ‘ The King and I ’ , although Thomson 's portraits of the King show that he looked nothing at all like Yul Brynner . |
| 42 | It was not until he had accepted and had received travel instructions that he found himself at Bletchley Park as part of the Enigma team reading German cypher traffic . |
| 43 | The tired horse faced a journey of at least twenty miles across heavy country so he kept her at a sedate trot . |
| 44 | Her reaction to that had been swift but , so he persuaded himself at the time , perhaps rational . |
| 45 | ‘ I bought my first one in 1974 and I had it at least ten years . |
| 46 | I was half asleep when he showed us up to our rooms , Ward and I sharing one at the rear of the building , which , in place of beds , had a double-tier bunk in the corner . |
| 47 | Ludo and I hear it at the same moment . |
| 48 | The chamber had priestly vestments draped on dummies like olden days tailors might have used , and I identified it at once by the basin and marble slab in the corner . |
| 49 | And I saw none at Ballechin . |
| 50 | We were driving north and I saw it at once . |
| 51 | I had what I refer to as the Flower Gentleman come to call on me — I 'm terrible at remembering names — and I liked him at once . |
| 52 | and I want one at dinner time and one this afternoon . |
| 53 | So that 's se and I want you at the other end . |
| 54 | I began to think that I had found a friend , and I answered him at once . |
| 55 | I consider that she would have found a job by early Autumn and therefore the sum must be more than a , nearly a year 's earnings and I assess it at eight thousand pounds . |
| 56 | ‘ My father and eldest brother established an estate agency and I joined them at the age of 17 . |
| 57 | Erm If I 've got sixty miles to do , and I do it at erm do it at sixty miles an hour , it takes me one hour . |
| 58 | I have grown one and I twist it at the ends ( the moustache too ) . ’ |
| 59 | When Callahan and I visited him at his large house on Sunset Beach , it was like walking around a graveyard : every board was a headstone with memories buried beneath it . |
| 60 | One this girl traced my hand and I traced hers at the same time — I went very slowly , which triggered her ticklishness , and she laughed every time my pencil made it to the place between two of her fingers , but she was brave , she stayed put . |