Example sentences of "[noun] [pron] [verb] [pron] at the " in BNC.

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1 With a growl he launched himself at the wizard , boots clattering as he slid from ring to ring .
2 ‘ Women of middle class origins who found themselves at the beginning of their working lives unequipped to promote themselves within occupations which traditionally demanded either precise qualifications or highly developed aptitude ’ .
3 Out in the dark cold hall she stopped him at the foot of the stairs .
4 The taxi driver who left us at the station , enchanted by the idea that we were setting off for the source of the Nile , refused to accept any fare .
5 They were last seen by a taxi driver who dropped them at the railway station more than 24 hours earlier .
6 On the appointed day I presented myself at the villa .
7 The subject is believed to be Gian Giacomo Caprotti , a pupil of da Vinci who joined him at the age of 10 , later becoming one of his lovers .
8 St Agnes FCJ was in Sierra Leone , before she was forced to flee and it was Joseph and his friend who helped her at the time .
9 The figures you gave us at the beginning I I seem to remember that you sell a lot more water abroad than in this country .
10 Every day she meets him at the well , and every day he repeats the same request , till at last she yields .
11 Mrs Buck 's taken out an official complaint against the officers who arrested her at the chemist in Oxford .
12 if any of them relate to a procedure we take it at the same time so that we do n't have to do it again , or not ?
13 " Creed " was , indeed to some extent how the convert himself saw it at the time : witness the acknowledgement in letters of 1866 and 1867 , that such philosophical tenets are not philosophically demonstrable , but are acceptable as art or for their edifying power or simply as faith .
14 PAMELA : Whether sir , the nun who followed you at the masquerade is not the Countess of Pembroke ?
15 Therefore he is asking for trouble , and he receives it suddenly and in full measure , above the groundswell of heckling , at the hands of a divinity student who reminds him at the top of his voice about Fedka , a dangerous escaped convict now roaming ‘ our town ’ and originally a serf of Stepan 's whom he sold into military service to pay a gambling debt :
16 But that , of course , does not take into account the loan we made you at the start of the year .
17 Mr Chairman , in his er , video to us , er drew attention to the , both the external and internal challenges which face us at the present time .
18 Their poverty and loneliness were part of an isolation from ordinary family life which left them at the margins even of childhood memory .
19 Most Asian and Afro-Caribbean men and women were drawn into low-paid occupations which placed them at the lower rather than the upper limits of these widening inequalities .
20 Was that the young man who killed himself at the station ?
21 I do n't mind how many times he rings you at the phone box .
22 Started with this device this is the thing I made it at the grammar school when I was working there .
23 If the drug which you took is known to cause foetal damage , then it would appear that the doctor who advised you at the hospital has been negligent .
24 If the drug which you took is known to cause foetal damage , then it would appear that the doctor who advised you at the hospital has been negligent .
25 As Christian communicators in Asia we place ourselves at the service of those challenges , well aware that we need to conscientise people as much as we need to be conscientised .
26 During a horse show he positioned himself at the edge of the arena .
27 I know that 's not the received wisdom of the profession at the moment but that 's the way I see it at the moment .
28 Self conscious in my normal clothes I seated myself at the rear of the upper stalls .
29 Now you 've had the , the benefit of hindsight which would you rather go with , the structured way or the , you know , the way you did it at the
30 During the autumn and winter of that dramatic year they put themselves at the forefront of agitation for more effective air raid precautions , and used their influence in the war factories to defend workers ’ living standards while criticizing the inefficiency of management .
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