Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] [conj] at [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But I ca n't explain it , it 's as if the devil himself is down there , and there 's this horrible smell that chokes you and at the same time you get the feeling that something evil is lying in wait for you . |
| 2 | Slavonic legend has it that at the time of the Creation of the World a group of malignant spirits staged a revolt against Svarog , the sky god . |
| 3 | Tradition has it that at the cremation of Gautama Buddha in India in 543 BC the tooth survived the flames and was brought to Kandy in the fourth century AD . |
| 4 | Toby prided himself that at the moment none of these boys , or the two dozen others , was conspicuously unhappy . |
| 5 | She wished she had worn her new suit , but she consoled herself that at the moment he did n't care what she looked like . |
| 6 | It was struck not at the weak man who suffered it but at the strong God who was the man 's master . |
| 7 | Furthermore , many absences from services in the post-Reformation period were occasioned not by apathy or reluctance to forgo a morning 's work or relaxation , but rather by ill-health or family commitments ; when William Kirke of Stow-cum-Quy in Cambridgeshire , for example , was hauled before the church courts for absenteeism , he informed them that at the time his wife had been ‘ lying in childbed and also his children wanted succour ’ . |
| 8 | Yes , your worships I wonder if I may assist the court o on behalf of er M Mrs erm Mrs er has told me that she thought at the time of the incident again was in fact , nearer to five o'clock than than , than four thirty and she was driving from Billington towards Clitheroe she had come through the traffic lights at the bottom of Accrington Road in Worley and she was proceeding along King Street in Worley er , towards towards Clitheroe and sh she has told me that at the time there was a considerable amount of traffic on the road and yo i in fact had that confirmed to you by er , my friend er the the traffic was sufficiently heavy that in fact , the the traffic travelling in the direction of Blackburn er was wai was backed up to the traffic lights as far as the zebra crossing and beyond it and so as Mrs erm was travelling towards Clitheroe her view of the children on the footpath at the opposite side of the road was obstructed by the cars that were er , travelling towards Blackburn . |
| 9 | ‘ You could have told me that at the very beginning , and put a stop to the whole thing right then . |
| 10 | she 's had her chance and I 'm doing all I can to help her but at the end of the day it 's on her shoulders . |
| 11 | As American supplies could only effectively reach the British , the American economy became heavily involved with that of the Allies , benefiting them and at the same time making considerable profits for American businessmen . |
| 12 | … must nine warriors , having nine spears , with a ten furrows ' Width between them and him , assail him and at the same time let fly at him . |
| 13 | Well I get involved in it in so many different ways erm this is a difficult one , but one of the things that happens is that a number of teachers , both from the area and elsewhere , erm do advanced courses at the university and as part of these courses we have a unit on evaluation , and for this they will choose some area of their school work which they and their colleagues — and I emphasise that this is something they do have to involve their colleagues back at school in very much — erm feel it would be useful to look at and then they try and discuss with their colleagues what aspects of it are important and significant and what ought to be seen , and they bring this discussion back and we all discuss together there 'll be different teachers working on different problems the different ways in which they could approach this problem and how they might most usefully be able to do it and at the end of the exercise they will have found out quite a lot about this particular area of teaching and very often we find that the people they 've consulted have themselves got quite interested in it and begun to realize that it 's not being done in a way that 's there to threaten them , they 're not sending a report to the headmaster or the Chief Education Officer or anything like that — it 's for the benefit of the people doing the work themselves . |
| 14 | The giant database operator is extremely unforthcoming , but it 's hard to keep these things quiet and our spies tell us that at the last count — which was about a year ago , it was a three-way split between IBM Corp , down to one 3090-300S and one 3090-200 , Amdahl Corp with a 5990-1400 and two 5990-1400As , and Hitachi Data Systems Inc with three EX/100s ; at the time , there were also 350 of IBM 's disgraced RT Unix boxes , and 21 IBM System/88 fault-tolerant machines . |
| 15 | on your interview she said I want you tell us because at the end of the , your interview she said , it 'll help us to do the others , so they told us , giving me different situations , she 's took a patient out to a cafe and the patient pinched a cake and eaten it , what would you do ? |
| 16 | By the time I started to react there was no time to do anything except at the instinctive level . |
| 17 | Roebuck positioned and braced himself and at the precise moment drove his shoulder into Shelford 's midriff , stopped him instantaneously , before driving him into the Onewa Domain turf . |
| 18 | Five years later the Meeting considered another problem and in its wisdom inverted the common law assumption that an accusation was not a conviction : ‘ The Case of Mr. H. R — — — was brought before the Church , who had misconducted himself and at the recommendation of the Pastor and Officers was suspended until his guilt was proved . ’ |
| 19 | Then as the evening goes on they begin to understand him and at the end they genuinely feel sorry and care for him . |
| 20 | She hit her and at the same time as she hit her she virtually came to a er , a stop because of the fact she wa she started to brake as soon as she saw the the children appear er , but ne never the less contact was made but thankfully for her and for the child the the contact was a a at no significant speed , the child was just knocked off her feet and she got up and waved to Mrs and said I 'm alright and she ran off and she was away before Mrs had time , even to undo her safety belt to get out of the car . |
| 21 | As a codicil to this I should tell you that at the same time in another part of the camp , the National Union of Miners were holding some sort of conference themselves . |
| 22 | Well , that by now familiar music will tell you that at the end of January , Douglas Cameron 's Breakfast Call will be broadcasting live from Sydney , and in the next few minutes , I 'll be telling you how you can join us down under , for the Dougie Down Under Competition , stay tuned for that , thanks to QUANTAS , Australia 's national airline . |
| 23 | The cut may be made with little or no apparent awareness , the patient suddenly discovering that she has cut herself and at the same time experiencing a sense of relief . |
| 24 | if it starts getting milky then I change it but at the moment there 's only one little fish see ? |
| 25 | ‘ It 's been a lifelong ambition of mine to beat him but at the big jump before Ballyboley Corner , Joey whizzed past me and although I tried to catch him again and take a tight line at Ballyboley he had just too much experience and he held on to beat me . |
| 26 | On leaving Powell Street he had lit a cigarette and within seconds a disembodied voice was booming at him to extinguish it and at the next station put it out the door on to the track . |
| 27 | Many diptera bask in sunlight inside flowers , warming themselves and at the same time facilitating pollination ; hordes settle on conspicuous dark or bright surfaces when air temperatures are low , and beetles collect on sunny patches of ground that are sheltered from wind , indicating a constant need for warming . |
| 28 | ‘ No , you said I 'd handle them and at the time I agreed but now I 've changed my mind , ’ Ruth told him firmly . |
| 29 | The MPRP needs to improve itself and at the same time if new parties are formed for the interest of the people and the country , they should be competing on equal terms . " |
| 30 | Below decks lurked something that at the moment defied the imagination . |