Example sentences of "[pron] at [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Carrying on with someone at a finishing school . ’ |
| 2 | I was convinced that the law would back us , so I found someone at a local law centre and she confirmed it , so we went back . |
| 3 | The idea was of staking out the estate and counting on someone at the appropriate moment . |
| 4 | ‘ Oh , piss off , ’ shouted someone at the other end of the hut , as a boot bounced off the door just as the Sergeant made his exit . |
| 5 | Bob 's phone rang , and while he was talking Dyson , who was sitting back in his chair and waiting for someone at the other end of the line , covered up the mouthpiece of his phone and said , ‘ Are you coming to the funeral , Tess ? ’ |
| 6 | When he assumed the role of the accountant and conducted the whole conversation with someone at the other end who was trying to make an appointment , he was brilliant . ’ |
| 7 | Recording a verdict of suicide , coroner David Morris said : ‘ It is easy enough to criticise the bank as a body — there is always someone at the sharp end . |
| 8 | Most schools have appointed someone at the middle management level or above ( see Figure 1 ) . |
| 9 | Did he not go and shoot someone at the clay-pigeon shooting in Ardallt two months ago ! |
| 10 | Just when they were about to ask Brussels to impose the fruits of their labour as the official standard for European direct-broadcast satellites , someone at the French foreign ministry leaked a report which argues that their technology , called D2 MAC , is already out of date . |
| 11 | Apart from our regular rehearsals we often found ourselves at a loose end and would all troop round together . |
| 12 | This information will be considered by ourselves at the key features review and due diligence stages . |
| 13 | True , Kant thinks that if morality is ultimately valid it is because we have somehow settled on these imperatives ourselves at the noumenal level , but to this — apart from the dubiousness of the metaphysics — it is likely to be objected that if the imperatives spring from myself it is quite proper for me to rescind them when convenient . |
| 14 | But she knew he had her at a complete disadvantage , and he knew it , too . |
| 15 | He 's amusing himself at a dull time of year , and being here without his womenfolk , but he 's as adroit at calming the storm as he is at raising it . |
| 16 | Dulé saw him fall , and ran , swung himself up the smooth wall of the redoubt where the gunners were hard at work , and found himself at a mere arm 's length from one . |
| 17 | Towards the end of the third hour , a little man at the back of the great hall , a faithful apparatchik from the area of the Caspian Sea , was unable to contain himself at the unanticipated exposition of the enormities of Stalin . |
| 18 | But the Dalek Killer was throwing himself at the golden cloud . |
| 19 | One instant he had been in mid-spring , forelegs extended and jaws agape , aiming himself at the crouching man-thing before them , the next , the target had moved with blurring speed , rising swiftly to meet him head-on . |
| 20 | With his teeth chattering , his mouth bleeding and his hair flattened to his skull he could not have looked less appealing as he presented himself at the front door . |
| 21 | On occasions , after a programme , he would slip into the empty studio , seat himself at the grand piano and play — mostly chords and nothing recognizable . |
| 22 | The Careys were also in attendance : Lady Carey glowered whilst her husband busied himself at the far end of the room , totally ignoring our existence . |
| 23 | Jeremy settles Kate on a rattan sofa with a whisky , flicks on the stereo and then sits down himself at the other end of the sofa , making sure that she notices his careful maintenance of physical space between them . |
| 24 | Ellie cried , as she saw Mike hurling himself at the unprepared Patsy . |
| 25 | McLeish smiled to himself at the swift fall from grace in the postscript . |
| 26 | Indeed this is the heart of Hilton 's argument for the validity of mixed life for the aspiring contemplative , for he says that this very desire , the burning coal which has to be thus nourished by a positive attitude to the demands of both active and contemplative life , is in fact God himself at the very ground of our being . |
| 27 | For an instant , Jimmy wondered whether he should hurl himself at the plate-glass windows . |
| 28 | At 32 Rue St Honoré , they met with Raymond Eddi , a distinguished Lebanese parliamentarian in exile , and Marcel Boutros , Aoun 's personal envoy , who invited Coleman to meet the general himself at the presidential palace in Baabda . |
| 29 | She took the cup of tea-bag Indian and allowed him to settle himself at the large deal table covered with music scores . |
| 30 | Stop me if you 've heard this , but one of those gunsels opened up on somebody at the rear entrance of the Regal Arms Hotel . ’ |