Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] [pron] at [adj] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Nausea overwhelmed her at last . |
| 32 | If Pindar in the Thirteenth Olympian meant anything at all by saying that the Muses breathed sweetly over Corinth , he was not referring to his own day but perhaps to that of the Corinthian Arion who invented the dithyramb . |
| 33 | WE CA N'T CHANGE THE PROBLEMS OF THE WORLD , BUT WHAT RED NOSE DAY GIVES EVERYONE AT COMIC RELIEF AND ALL ITS SUPPORTERS IS AN OPPORTUNITY TO REACH OUT TO OTHER PEOPLE WITH THE MONEY THEY NEED TO RADICALLY CHANGE THEIR LIVES . |
| 34 | Only as the cloverleaf began to appear as a grey shape in the otherwise black wall did I at last fall into a dream-wracked sleep . |
| 35 | For many people the biggest problem with using a computer is simply that you have to type something on the keyboard to achieve anything at all . |
| 36 | Similar exercises have been undertaken by other er governments and there 's a tremendous contrast with the way those governments have actually sought to do this , with our own government , erm no publicity whatsoever has appeared yet and again I offer the minister the chance to tell us at some later point , what the government is prepared to do to exert itself on this matter and to tell us indeed whether it wants people to register erm it is n't particularly clear whether in fact this is part of er some idea that the government has that people should n't register and I think that the minister needs to be very clear about this so that people get the message outside , because nine and a half million people did n't vote , even in the last general election . |
| 37 | And versatile international Joe Lydon has signed a new 12-month contract to keep him at Central Park . |
| 38 | The decision to keep it at 23 means fewer fixtures , less money and a greater likelihood of further clubs folding . |
| 39 | Indeed , I may say it was not my wish to see you at all . |
| 40 | The vulgar Miller intrudes , and , with his fabliau and the nature of the genre and of fabliau language in mind , we can find some amusement in contemplating the possible sexual reading of " " unbokeled is the male " " , " the purse is unbuckled " , a vulgarity that the Host , playing the role given him at this point , would no doubt have considered excluded from his words . |
| 41 | Danger of choking stopped him at that point . |
| 42 | It is the unique experience of rail travellers on the Gotthard to glimpse the same , unmistakable baroque-domed village church three times in a few minutes as the train passes it at different levels above and below . |
| 43 | The hotel manager woke me at 10 a.m. with a telegram from my mother , which had been delayed . |
| 44 | There were times when Eliot seemed uncertain or ill at ease , suddenly very much the " resident alien " — one has the impression , always , of a man invaded by inexplicable moods and anxieties which he did his best to conceal — and Hayward 's own dominating and very English manner afforded him at such times a certain amount of confidence . |
| 45 | Her scorn stung him at last . |
| 46 | The Inspector left it at that and as I was waiting expectantly for the interview to end , he said : ‘ Why does an educated man like you spend his time caddying ? |
| 47 | In other words , by the 1770s and after Berton 's reforms , debate had nothing at all to do with audible stick signals , but everything to do with the presence of a conducteur , communicating visually . |
| 48 | Give me your word to meet me at twelve at the attorneys and I will take it . ’ |
| 49 | Burden Creek has none at all , and after they merge , downstream all the way to the gap and out , the water is clear and dead . |
| 50 | Logic has nothing at all to do with what is about to happen . |
| 51 | I retained a friendship for George Brown , although he regarded me with rather dubious approval because of my omission to drink anything at any dinner party . |
| 52 | His jaw hung open , and he was near enough for me to see the rain dashing from his face — when lightning showed him at all . |
| 53 | No one had ever been able to knock her for six , and if this man affected her at all it was because she disliked him so much . |
| 54 | Only on his way home at lunchtime did he at last rouse himself enough to make a detour , and stop by at his brother 's apartment and invite Franco to come home with him for lunch . |
| 55 | For neither he nor anyone in his following had anything at all apart from the clothes they stood up in and their weapons and horses . |
| 56 | The Archdeacon accused himself at many levels , not the least professional . |
| 57 | Thereafter things improved ; we got several thousand corners while Arse got none at all . |
| 58 | whom he could trust , and he needed my youth to support him at this difficult time and so , like a fool , I had believed him and flown |
| 59 | Why risk seeing him at all ? |
| 60 | As they moved from one high-ceilinged panelled room to the next , signs of disorder and decay met them at each open door . |