Example sentences of "[conj] [pron] [verb] [pron] at the " in BNC.
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| 1 | IBM Corp started relaxing its strict accounting practices way back in 1984 , just as the company 's core mainframe business began to lose its impetus , although no-one realised it at the time . |
| 2 | ‘ Yes , not that I knew it at the time , of course , else I 'd never have gone . ’ |
| 3 | It was thanks to you all that I humiliated myself at the Harrogate Trade Show . |
| 4 | And we saw that in the calculation that I gave you at the end of last week 's lecture . |
| 5 | I was called away to the hospital so I left her at the house waiting for Nigel to turn up to collect her . ’ |
| 6 | Vera 's not back from lunch , so I kept it at the desk . ’ |
| 7 | Phyl would have stayed in show business without the help of Littler but she was fortunate in that she met him at the right time , when he was building up his pantomime empire . |
| 8 | Her reaction to that had been swift but , so he persuaded himself at the time , perhaps rational . |
| 9 | I was half asleep when he showed us up to our rooms , Ward and I sharing one at the rear of the building , which , in place of beds , had a double-tier bunk in the corner . |
| 10 | Ludo and I hear it at the same moment . |
| 11 | So that 's se and I want you at the other end . |
| 12 | ‘ My father and eldest brother established an estate agency and I joined them at the age of 17 . |
| 13 | I have grown one and I twist it at the ends ( the moustache too ) . ’ |
| 14 | One this girl traced my hand and I traced hers at the same time — I went very slowly , which triggered her ticklishness , and she laughed every time my pencil made it to the place between two of her fingers , but she was brave , she stayed put . |
| 15 | Then the talk turned to the West and I found myself at the centre of questions . |
| 16 | The scene shifted and I found myself at the head of a stairwell , aware that yet another place might be reached but only by somersaulting over the banister and walking my feet down the opposite wall as one might descend a defile in a crag . |
| 17 | ‘ I suppose I took the wrong path , ’ he said , ‘ and I found myself at the edge of a cliff . ’ |
| 18 | Erm , thought it would be nice at handicrafts afternoon and then we could throw the handicraft meeting open to anybody if I told them at the meeting before were going to have it . |
| 19 | So provided you get something at the right level of sophistication , you should n't go far wrong with any of the mainstream graphics software currently available . |
| 20 | PLAYER : Why , we grow rusty and you catch us at the very point of decadence — by this time tomorrow we might have forgotten everything we ever knew . |
| 21 | I look back now and think we are actually still doing that , not in the military aspect , in civvy street , we 've got people , real nice people , you talk to them on the street and you get them at the kill and the hackles go up , you can see the adrenalin pumping round their body , you can see the kind of excitement in their eyes and you can see the terrier men grabbing by the the scruff of the neck , bleeding and then throwing . |
| 22 | A Primus is a little camping-stove that you fill with paraffin and you light it at the top and then you pump it to get pressure for the flame . |
| 23 | Once extended her own eye was pressed to the lens of the telescope that was herself ( was it her own eye 's lens she was looking through the wrong way ? ) and she saw herself at the other end . |
| 24 | His dark eyes met hers as if he felt her surreptitious appraisal , and she found herself at the receiving end of that long , sardonic smile . |
| 25 | Thanks , it 's best if you point it at the telly |
| 26 | Especially if you get them at the , the far end of the continuum . |
| 27 | Perhaps it would be best if you left me at the cottage and went back to London . |
| 28 | If you saw someone you knew and you shouted out to them , you were in dead trouble , even if you shouted hello , or if you asked someone at the next table for a cigarette . |
| 29 | Mr Crum would dismiss ye on the spot if you presented yourself at the warehouse wearing those … those … dancing girls ’ things … probably send me packing as well if I was along with you . ’ |
| 30 | But then if you did it at the stage before , before it gets into the Scottish Theatre Guide you can then make your dates available or you can agree your dates and you can get publicity and that at home . |