Example sentences of "[verb] at [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The ability to communicate at all levels , and to retain the confidence of your clients is vital ; you have to work with each other , so this confidence must exist and must override any personality clashes . |
| 2 | This genetic cohesion of a population arises because , while the very slow processes of homogenisation are at work ( among copies of a family on the same and different chromosomes ) , the chromosomes in a population are being mixed at each generation . |
| 3 | Charles Laubscher recalls : ‘ My feelings were mixed at this news ( of the move to Malta ) . |
| 4 | There was 110 possible reason why he should have wished at that stage to foreclose his options between December and January , or January and the spring . |
| 5 | The drop down from Meall Corranaich and back up to Beinn Ghlas was a great deal more substantial than I would have wished at this point in the walk , keeping in mind that I was hallucinating from the effort of the chase and the subsequent lack of oxygen managing to get anywhere near my lungs via a mouth full of clenched teeth . |
| 6 | Alice stood marvelling at this thought : that only a couple of days ago Mary Williams had seemed to hold her own fate Alice 's — in her hands ; and now Alice had difficulty in even remembering her status . |
| 7 | Memory and imagination were grappling at each other 's throats , and these people would lose if he lay here much longer . |
| 8 | He did not put on his sword , for no weapons were permitted at such occasions , though Ratagan had told him a gory tale of a banquet where a certain disagreement had been settled with eating knives , which the victors had subsequently continued eating with . |
| 9 | Whereas a bottom-up or data-driven system such as HWIM can hypothesize any of the 1,000 or so items in its lexicon at the beginning of the utterance , HARPY can only hypothesize those words permitted at that point by the grammar . |
| 10 | Their 7 foot 6 inches-wide body was the widest permitted at that time , and allowed two-by-two seating on upholstered seats in the saloon . |
| 11 | Approaches to members of staff and to the company 's premises , customers and suppliers will not be permitted at this stage . |
| 12 | No leakages were permitted at any points nor were the canvas sides allowed to bulge inward to any greater extent than that caused by the slackness of the canvas specified on the drawing . |
| 13 | Climbers should note that as soon as agreement has been reached , climbing activities will not be permitted at these locations . |
| 14 | That deaf people marry other deaf people was not , as could be supposed at that time , a new phenomenon — it will be recalled from Chapter I that John Dyott married a deaf girl after the Civil War in 1645 . |
| 15 | Why did they buy at that time ? |
| 16 | Would anyone buy at this price ? |
| 17 | They lay up all the following day , expecting to be attacked at any moment , but no enemy showed up . |
| 18 | My first reaction to the resignations was that they were tantamount to an admission of guilt when , in fact , the Argentinians could have attacked at any time in the previous fifteen years . |
| 19 | What made you jump at that moment ? |
| 20 | I knew both of them very well from my Lincoln days and had agreed to lecture at this school . |
| 21 | Finds that are fragile or should not be washed for any other reason ( such as metalwork ) are also sorted at this stage . |
| 22 | Olwen did n't know at that time that the commitment was soon to become twenty-four hours a day , seven days a week . |
| 23 | I did n't know at that time what the content of the exhibition was because Sarah who organised it all had to write to lots of people and arrange the loans and you know it is fairly recently that we discovered for example the tate would lend , their pictures because its very rare that they do , erm , and , so we thought the next best thing , when I discovered the change of dates would be to have slides of the pictures that Sue was using , but erm oh dear then wonderful that Sue was using a another book and this term allocated and I was n't able to get the slides she picked , it was my fault that they 're not on slide due to the amount of time that we had to do this . |
| 24 | And anyway he he was one of the candidates , but what I did n't know at that time there was a real feud between the women and the men . |
| 25 | across a lot of papers but in this paper it starts er and as Mr just said it starts as far as incr increments , erm do we know at this time or can we be informed as soon as were informed , where of what , whether implement are erm , like , are restricted by the , the Chancellor 's statement , do we know or , are have we got ta wait ? |
| 26 | All he did know at this moment was that it seemed a shame a girl such as Maggie here , with brains , because she was no fool , and a talent such as she had , should be encased in a body that held no appeal . |
| 27 | And that 's something we must do before the next meeting so that I can answer the questions , cos we do n't really know at this moment . |
| 28 | If you are going to take notes , let the candidate know at this stage , explain that you do it for all the candidates , and that they are nothing sinister but simply a memory aid . |
| 29 | ‘ We will be billing Wimbledon for damage caused , although we do n't know at this stage how much it will all cost . |
| 30 | The force spokeswoman said : ‘ How it happened we do n't know at this stage . |