Example sentences of "[vb pp] [pron] at " in BNC.
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| 1 | That had frightened me at first but now I thought the Star Zoo was wonderful . |
| 2 | It 's given everyone at the club a lift . ’ |
| 3 | Against the advice given me at the Centre , quite deliberately I decided to have neither a counsellor nor a healer . |
| 4 | All received reduced winter wages with eleven given nothing at all . |
| 5 | Their one hundred and fifty ton heavy life crane would have coped with that job easily enough but I hastily declined his offer which , apart from any other consideration would have placed me at a slight disadvantage . |
| 6 | It was as though he had joined them at the table , and it was n't doing D'Arcy 's appetite any good at all . |
| 7 | The wedding , planned for November … ’ ) she had learned that she was the goddaughter of Lady Bartlett ( that mother of sons … ) and had joined them at the end of July . |
| 8 | I turned to find that a girl had joined me at the bar . |
| 9 | ‘ I did n't go to Oxford or Yale but he would have a good education if he had joined me at Birkenhead Institute . ’ |
| 10 | But why should he have considered me at all ? |
| 11 | Most studies focus on school achievement , but this may be misleading because there is evidence to suggest that Afro-Caribbean and Asian students are more likely than white students to stay on in further education and some do manage to obtain academic qualifications that had eluded them at school ( Craft and Craft , 1983 ) , while one investigation suggests that young black people in inner city areas had gained better academic qualifications than white youth in the same areas ( Roberts , Duggan and Noble , 1983 ) , a finding borne out more generally by some other studies ( Brown , 1984 ) . |
| 12 | Future Image maintains that the extension to a wider base has won them at least half a dozen valuable new clients , and he thinks its the way forward for all agencies . |
| 13 | Especially when Charity and her mother had done their very best to help with a problem that need not have concerned them at all . |
| 14 | I had expected them at that stage to do the decent thing and wait for us to catch up but , smelling their first blood of the season , they continued in much the same fashion and eventually ran out 7–0 victors . |
| 15 | We would have expected them at the beginning , and as we are still at the beginning , they ought to be here . |
| 16 | You 've caught me at a very late lunch . |
| 17 | Then she poured out in detail the humiliation she had recently suffered , and at last she sighed deeply and said , ‘ You 've caught me at my weakest , but I 'm gradually pulling myself together . ’ |
| 18 | Her cheeks , which had been so white the previous evening , now had colour , and instead of sagging with exhaustion she radiated the extraordinary vitality that had so attracted me at our first meeting on the Cutty Sark . |
| 19 | Angry Jemson suffered the embarrassment of coming on as substitute and then being substituted himself at Carrow Road . |
| 20 | As time and cost constraints make extensive physical experimentation increasingly difficult to justify , the transport sector has installed itself at the forefront of the model revolution . |
| 21 | Since the Lord Chancellor 's Practice Statement [ 1966 ] 3 All ER 77 the House of Lords has considered itself at liberty to depart from its own previous decisions when it appears right to do so . |
| 22 | ‘ Oh — have I caught you at a bad time , dear ? ’ |
| 23 | If I 'd found out where you went I 'd have caught you at it . ’ |
| 24 | ‘ I 've obviously caught you at a bad moment . |
| 25 | Rangers , though , deserved some fortune because they had enjoyed none at the other end . |
| 26 | ‘ He 's not a carpenter , dear , he 's an architect , and a highly respected one at that . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | In the first pass he had already claimed one at 0938 , Uffz . |
| 30 | 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 . |