Example sentences of "[noun] [pron] [verb] [pron] at [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It could have been the extra garlic I 'd put in the Rogan Josh which woke me at 2.06 a.m. , but it was probably the noise Billy Tuckett made falling through the bathroom skylight and killing himself . |
| 2 | ‘ I know lads who got theirs at eighteen in Cyprus . ’ |
| 3 | Kathleen herself saw nothing at all they could , or should , try to do . |
| 4 | Similarly , science fiction motifs give way in this novel to fantasy elements which maintain it at one remove from realism but prevent it from falling into a generic category . |
| 5 | To the north , the land rose slowly from the marshes to Althorne ridge about a mile and a half inland ; to the south there seemed nothing at all , only a grey-green , indeterminate merging of water , land and sky , beginningless and endless . |
| 6 | At international meetings Hungarians who said anything at all used to parrot the Russians . |
| 7 | ‘ He looks better , it 's true , but some days he eats nothing at all , and other days he eats just like a healthy boy . |
| 8 | Er the second polygyny where you have one male and then females and here reproductive success erm meaning that there 's a large again you 'll have the males who 'll have the large reproductive success than males who have none at all and erm of course often differences between male and female because the male has and the male has opportunities to erm try to control success rate the female biological and er consequently with this kind of system from female choice and male competition and er are about eighty percent and er polygamy is when you have many males and many females and er is also and er I would assume it 's kind of like males have opportunities . |
| 9 | Comfortable Government majorities on two key motions followed a searing fightback by the Chancellor , Norman Lamont , during raucous exchanges which saw him at one stage on the ropes in the face of a furious tirade by , alternately , the Labour leader , John Smith , and the shadow chancellor , Gordon Brown . |
| 10 | This smug man who had nothing at all to do with her life had helped to wipe out her father 's existence for her . |
| 11 | I can not recall whether it was a Labour Government who set it at that figure . |
| 12 | After several attempts he got him at last on a bad telephone line . |
| 13 | ‘ It was her beauty which attracted me at first , ’ said Mr Jefferson , who was a produce buyer for NAFFI for more than 37 years . |
| 14 | Shane may now be shorn of groping groupies and desperate sports hacks who ring him at five o'clock in the morning , but there 's certainly no shortage of England batsmen who are prepared to play dazzled rabbits to his Mack truck headlights . |
| 15 | At worst we can now doubt for reasons which are purely moral , spiritual or psychological , as in the case of someone who is incurably suspicious , a problem which has nothing at all to do with epistemology . |
| 16 | Now let us explore what lies behind the contemporary appearance of quite another group of towns : towns which reveal nothing at first sight of their secret , physical history , and which indeed seem to have little or nothing in common as one looks at them and around their streets . |
| 17 | During a visit to an airfield he clocked it at 95 mph . |
| 18 | ‘ But apart from the fact that my mother obviously lived here at some time I know nothing at all . ’ |
| 19 | No matter what spreadsheet you currently use , if , in fact you use one at all , it will be capable of adding figures ( via a sum function ) multiplying , dividing , converting and so forth . |
| 20 | In fact they had none at all . |