Example sentences of "[verb] [vb pp] [pron] at the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As for their laying the birch on my pocket , I compute that my support of Lewis and Brzeska has cost me at the lowest estimate about £20 per year , from one source alone since that regrettable occurrence , since I dared to discern a great sculptor and a great painter in the midst of England 's artistic desolaton . |
| 2 | ‘ Story of my life , ’ he growls when a red declines to go into a pocket for the simple reason that he has hit it at the wrong angle . |
| 3 | I 'd met her at the odd party where we 'd chatted and that 's about it . ’ |
| 4 | Oh it was a nice ball that by , shoots and scores , Notts get a second just moments after they might have conceded one at the other end , the referee unimpressed by the penalty claims but the crowd are there , with a really fine piece of finishing by Gary , nine minutes to half time and adds to the one that got in twenty four , and it 's two nil to Notts County against . |
| 5 | It seems unlikely that William Joyce would not have known it at the same time . |
| 6 | If the purchaser himself intends to dispose subsequently of these assets he will prefer to have acquired them at the higher base cost to minimise capital gains or corporation tax on a subsequent disposal . |
| 7 | Miss Scrimgeour had received one at the same time . |
| 8 | Tight in his hand he held the silver coin that Dad had given him at the front door . |
| 9 | Rangers , though , deserved some fortune because they had enjoyed none at the other end . |
| 10 | He had gagged for hours following the ordeal , convinced that one of the dog 's hairs had lodged itself at the very back of his throat where his fingers were unable to reach . |
| 11 | She projected a kind of agelessness , which had made her at the same time an object of attention from both the Young Women 's Fitness Class and the Over-50s Club . |
| 12 | However , it seemed the news that a low-class woman had presented herself at the back door alerted Master Jobbernole to the possible reason for her presence and its consequences . |
| 13 | Somehow — it did not seem diplomatic to enquire too deeply just how — he had missed her at the arranged spot . |
| 14 | If he had played me at the same age he 'd have given me three blacks start and a beating . |
| 15 | Fifty people ( the other thirty had disengaged themselves at the first mention of Dickens ) were now taking tea in the gardens of the Albion Hotel under the shelter of parasols . |
| 16 | Saskia had thrown something at the third and hit it on the head . |
| 17 | Miss Coldharbour had recruited her at the last moment to help serve supper for Canon Wheeler 's guests who included the Bishop and the Earl of Medewich and Markham . |
| 18 | They 've castrated him at the same time |
| 19 | Most schools have appointed someone at the middle management level or above ( see Figure 1 ) . |