Example sentences of "[prep] [verb] [pron] at [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She told me about seeing you at that nightclub . ’ |
| 2 | He says that he shot it down , after chasing it at low level . |
| 3 | Similarly , we could postulate some alien being capable of seeing nothing at all in the range of wavelengths we call ‘ light ’ but able to see a whole range of colours in the ultraviolet or infrared . |
| 4 | There 's no mathematical way of defining it at that point . |
| 5 | This was the last day of these services , and there is talk of reviving them at some time in the future but using modern Sprinter units . |
| 6 | Not having a copy of Class War : Britain 's Most Unruly Tabloid to hand , and doubtful of getting one at short notice , I ask if he has the telephone number . |
| 7 | And especially not of aiming it at one of his friends . |
| 8 | Emphasize the difficulty of saying anything at all with regard to religion which may not be received by someone in a misleading way . |
| 9 | Christine said thanks to sheer determination and hours of extra work Wesley was now capable of doing anything at all . |
| 10 | In practice , running a hose pipe all the way from the kitchen sink to ( say ) the bath hot tap ( to say nothing of the problem of connecting it at both ends ) may not be practicable and you should first try using the nearest cold tap in the same way . |
| 11 | It is well recognized because unless you have managed to work out how things actually happen you have no chance of achieving anything at all . |
| 12 | In this case , the researcher decides how many of each category of person should be included in the sample , but then , instead of selecting them at random from a sampling frame , the researcher goes out looking for the right number of people in each category until the quota is filled . |
| 13 | He runs away along with Lydia with no idea of marrying her at all and is forced to marry Lydia by Mr. Darcy becoming between them . |
| 14 | I think that fee is excellent , if they 'd of kept it at that , I think most people could afford it . |
| 15 | In their view , two things were required to give Britain the prospect of security in the atomic era : first , the atomic bomb itself ; and second , the means of delivering it at strategic ranges . |
| 16 | It is worth describing it at such length so that readers who have not read Tolkien 's ‘ minor ’ works might develop some idea of Lewis 's importance as Tolkien 's ‘ onlie begetter ’ or ‘ miglior fabbro ’ , for there can be very little doubt that it was Lewis 's friendship and encouragement which led Tolkien to write the works which made his name with the public ; just as it was Tolkien 's friendship which released in Lewis wells of creativity which had remained ( though he was so naturally fluent ) mysteriously dry . |
| 17 | Some of his many poems and humorous versifications were published in 1991 and in his introduction he claimed : ‘ The reasons for presenting them at all are twofold . |
| 18 | Both you and I are much blamed by the " crouner and capitanes " and in truth not without cause , for they say there is no wrong done in Ireland but only that which is done by these men that come from Ila , and Auchinbrecke said to me that he would complain to my Lord of you for sending them at all , except men you have passed and will be answerable for . |
| 19 | It was not a book that he had packed when leaving London : he had bought it a day or two earlier in Inverness , and to Boswell , years later , he gave , not unmemorably , his reasons for buying it at all : ‘ Why , Sir , if you are to have but one book with you upon a journey , let it be a book of science . |
| 20 | But fascinating as his COUSIN BOBBY ( Cert PG ; W.E. ) is , only a film-maker whose Silence of the Lambs won five Oscars could get away with releasing what at best is a TV documentary and at worst a home movie . |
| 21 | I may look into the cost , work involved and practicalities of doing it mainly electronically as well as whether it is worth starting it at this stage of the season . |
| 22 | Soldiers and diplomats who knew Yugoslavia well could make its complexities sound like an excuse for doing nothing at all . |
| 23 | ‘ I must apologise for disturbing you at such a late hour , ’ Potter said . |
| 24 | ‘ How about joining us at Green Park tomorrow ? ’ |
| 25 | I told them you can bitch about found somebody at last . |
| 26 | Even if someone believes the most secure and pernicious lies , he will not be able to help himself from doubting them at some time . |
| 27 | Wooing first John and then Richard , Philip succeeded in keeping them at each other 's throats , or at Henry 's coat-tails , for several more years . |
| 28 | Or do you not see any point in keeping them at all ? is the number to dial . |
| 29 | The Directive 's provisions are also so flexible , because of the difficulty in reaching a consensus among the member states and commentators , that there are grave doubts about whether there is any point in adopting them at all . |
| 30 | Extreme care should therefore be taken in prescribing them at all : if the recipient has addictive disease these drugs will make it worse . |