Example sentences of "[pron] [noun] at [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In 1769 1,375 people were at work on it , many of them prisoners at forced labour . |
| 2 | ‘ We all read Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee . |
| 3 | SO WROTE Stephen Vincent Benet , who also penned the immortal line ‘ Bury my heart at Wounded Knee . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ An my experience at Imperial had shown me the growing need in this country to find free-standing sites on the outskirts of towns , away from parking problems and inner city violence . |
| 5 | As head of an academic department ( Economics ) at McGill University , he had interested himself in student publications in the various universities across Canada , and he had some kind things to say about my attempts at humorous prose in the weekly ‘ Adventures of Dizzy Dick ’ . |
| 6 | Sad , nostalgic , the countryside had hardly changed and , if I closed my eyes at certain parts , I was back with Master Benjamin and all those people , now long dead , travelling to a place where conspiracy , treason and sudden death became part of the very fabric of our lives . |
| 7 | I opened my eyes at fucking five to six and I could see him at the window Ken ran then across the road and he says Dawn your brother 's been trying to get in for ages . |
| 8 | In Damascus he would have loved baiting Marwan , the AP reporter , with Nick ; at the Comedy Store he would have laughed at the idea of the song someone had written for him — ‘ The Hills are Alive with the Sound of Bullets ’ ; , and my début at live interviews would have provided another entry for his file of great lines . |
| 9 | Also on the limestone , I Should Coco , E5 6b , the line of four bolts right of Snails Ate My Lampshade at Bent Tor — first ascent by Pete Cresswell and Cathy Duffill . |
| 10 | He conducted detailed negotiations with a consortium of the four clearing banks and , enlisting my assistance at occasional meetings , contrived an arrangement with them that made the economics a possibility , while , I have to confess , retaining some attraction for the banks . |
| 11 | An hour later I was fastening my safety-belt at LAX . |
| 12 | That is a great deal of money Minnie which I do not need to tell you and would without doubt enable me to bring over my first-born at long last . |
| 13 | I had no reason to suppose that the letter was anything but genuine — it was on the shipping company 's notepaper , and , insofar as such recollections are of any value , the signature at first glance was in keeping with the signature I remembered vaguely from my days at Upper Thames Street . |
| 14 | However , I had seen such sights before , in my days at primary school , and despite the use of Patriots , Jubilees and even Royal Scots on the more prestigious sets of wagons , it was the early afternoon express traffic which was the focal point of my attention . |
| 15 | And it 's frightening , but I , I mean , I know from my days at British Telecom , I 'd say I was on that phone , really |
| 16 | I enjoyed all my years at Primary School although some events were not so good as others . |
| 17 | Fixtures include electric windows all round ( but manual door mirrors ) , steering wheel and driver 's seat adjustable for height leaving a full five fingers above my head at full height . |
| 18 | I was pleased with W F Owtram 's opening two lines : ‘ Was it for this I quitted Rhondda , /In my dreams at large to wander … |
| 19 | ‘ I am sure I could have finished my career at Ayresome Park . |
| 20 | Back from my vacation at glorious unsunny Bucket World . |
| 21 | I also tried my hand at professional decorating . |
| 22 | ‘ Of all the people in my class at naval college I am the only one still in the service . ’ |
| 23 | For some reason I was unable to fathom , all the girls in my class at secondary school headed for Aviemore each weekend with the singular task of losing their virginity . |
| 24 | I 've been ringing my family at regular intervals to see how things are going . ’ |
| 25 | The strain of possible air raids and bad news from abroad was at last removed from our lives , and being still in the Air Force , and single , my only responsibilities were to do my job properly and polish my buttons at regular intervals . |
| 26 | The first Arbuthnot came to Ireland in 1798 to try the rebels who had burned the English garrison alive in their barracks at Prosperous . |
| 27 | The octopus can even modify the texture of its skin at high speed , a smooth , plain surface suddenly furrowing up into complex folds and ridges and gaining a complex blotched patterning at the same time . |
| 28 | If foreign bankers thought that the UK was not serious about balancing its books at some future time , they would be reluctant to lend their money at low interest . |
| 29 | And to the right and above them were the black floor and lighter awning and sides of the gallery , which contained three nervous men who had already let off their handguns at random . |
| 30 | We miss her presence at head office — both as a character and a colleague on whom we could rely 100 per cent . |