Example sentences of "[conj] [pron] [vb past] [pron] at " in BNC.
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| 1 | IBM Corp started relaxing its strict accounting practices way back in 1984 , just as the company 's core mainframe business began to lose its impetus , although no-one realised it at the time . |
| 2 | At Billy Graham 's 1961 Maine Road Stadium Crusade , low-level , multi-speaker systems meant that music from choir and instruments was travelling around the stadium electronically and then being ‘ chased ’ by the real sound , with the result that everyone heard everything at least twice . |
| 3 | ‘ Yes , not that I knew it at the time , of course , else I 'd never have gone . ’ |
| 4 | It was thanks to you all that I humiliated myself at the Harrogate Trade Show . |
| 5 | And it , it was n't until many years later that I told anyone at all that 's , that 's the thing I was saying about bulimia , it 's very secret . |
| 6 | I had no idea that what was happening was my body trying to bring itself up to a natural weight rather than the unnatural , low one that I kept it at . |
| 7 | I told her that I had you at work then yesterday , right , she says oh no another one , right , and ended up |
| 8 | He sounded so sincere that I forgave him at once in my heart . |
| 9 | When I came to Macmillan , it was with the greatest difficulty that I telephoned him at all . |
| 10 | Well as I 've taped that I taped it at home |
| 11 | And we saw that in the calculation that I gave you at the end of last week 's lecture . |
| 12 | All I can say is that someone hit me at about 40 or 50mph up the back as I was turning into the corner . |
| 13 | I was called away to the hospital so I left her at the house waiting for Nigel to turn up to collect her . ’ |
| 14 | Vera 's not back from lunch , so I kept it at the desk . ’ |
| 15 | Two had left so I visited them at home . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Ronni smiled a small smile , grateful that the subject of Jeff and Silvia had been left behind , and enjoying , for once , the fact that she had him at a disadvantage . |
| 18 | If it was true what he said , that she kept him at arm 's length , surely there could only be one reason for that ? |
| 19 | Phyl would have stayed in show business without the help of Littler but she was fortunate in that she met him at the right time , when he was building up his pantomime empire . |
| 20 | The only other possibility is that it was never there in the first place — that she left it at home by mistake . ’ |
| 21 | ‘ Do n't you know that you caught me at an age when Taureans are at their most vulnerable ? |
| 22 | ‘ You wrote that you caught him at his flat just at the time he was leaving the country . ’ |
| 23 | So many of you enjoy Dr. D 's column ( we have taken an extract from his latest book this month , page 176 ) that we photographed him at home with his new wife , TV presenter and novelist , Christine Webber , page 8 . |
| 24 | Our horses had more sense and refused to go further so we stabled them at a local inn where we satisfied our hunger on a dish of fish cooked over charcoal before making our way up to the castle . |
| 25 | When faced with that choice this summer , I chose to encourage people to continue to develop computerisation in primary health care rather than simply to reward directly those who did something very valuable — there is no doubt about that , or about the fact that they did it at their own risk — some years ago . |
| 26 | But although he aimed it at Nicholas , it fired into the air , for the boy knocked it sideways and held it . |
| 27 | I 've already revealed that I started out in a donkey jacket , but I should add that it took me at least ten years to get a decent kit . |
| 28 | A quick glance at him showed her that he thought nothing at all of a drive like this , clinging to the mountainside and driving much too fast . |
| 29 | Her memoirs formed the inspiration for the film ‘ The King and I ’ , although Thomson 's portraits of the King show that he looked nothing at all like Yul Brynner . |
| 30 | It was not until he had accepted and had received travel instructions that he found himself at Bletchley Park as part of the Enigma team reading German cypher traffic . |