Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] [pers pn] at [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You see , I did n't know her for long and it was a privilege to meet her at all . |
| 2 | We thought all was well until the Battlebus passed us at full speed in the opposite direction . |
| 3 | The Russian poet mistakes him at first for a brigand of the woods , a political conspirator , or a charlatan trading in elixirs and arsenic . |
| 4 | The wind woke her at six , hustling the leaves on the trees , still green in November . |
| 5 | Ron does n't remember this tall , slightly gawky figure approaching him at all . |
| 6 | There 's no reasson to keep it at all . |
| 7 | So , on a board the apparent wind we experience when we travel at 10 knots in a 10 knot cross-wind will be a 14 knot wind hitting us at 45 degrees . |
| 8 | ‘ While I might have had difficulty believing you at that particular moment two years ago , it was two years ago . |
| 9 | Shattered after losing his young second wife , he moved to Bath , then in its social heyday , where a benign-looking portrait shows him at seventy , grasping a book entitled Views of Painshill . |
| 10 | The interpretation of what remains as historical evidence is after all fundamental to the historians craft , but the deliberate preservation of historical source materials in the absence of context ( or worse still the failure to preserve them at all ) surely does little justice to the society in which we live . |
| 11 | ‘ We want to see proper education and we have said we will put a penny on income tax to provide it at all levels from the age of three upwards . ’ |
| 12 | Children play mournfully in heap of setter shit above which washing-line used to hang ( until sodden towel bust it at three a.m. , landing in setter ordure as mentioned ) . |
| 13 | ‘ But in any case , you had no right to leave me at that pub all night . |
| 14 | Peter Mandelson , Patricia Hewitt and a number of other Fabian commentators could have behaved more courteously by addressing the Liberal Democrats by their full name instead of calling them Liberals ; Tony Blair could have had the courage to name them at all , instead of subsuming them into a vague phrase about building common cause with other parties ‘ around the world ’ . |
| 15 | Recent estimates of the size of the slick put it at 2.5m-3m barrels of oil , not the 7m-barrel monster that had been feared . |
| 16 | After all if we say , ‘ I did n't appreciate that remark , ’ that tells the world something about us , and we may perceive that it is unwise to let people know that the remark disturbs us at all so we do not share our feelings . |
| 17 | If I start thinking of It as a person , entitled to a dignified end , the next thing will be of course that I have no right to end It at all . |
| 18 | If a method of collecting evidence is reliable , it means that anybody else using this method , or the same person using it at another time , would come up with the same results . |
| 19 | Some 64pc of those entitled to Family Credit receive it at any one time . |
| 20 | Have you had a chance to play it at all ? |
| 21 | Nausea overwhelmed her at last . |
| 22 | Only as the cloverleaf began to appear as a grey shape in the otherwise black wall did I at last fall into a dream-wracked sleep . |
| 23 | Similar exercises have been undertaken by other er governments and there 's a tremendous contrast with the way those governments have actually sought to do this , with our own government , erm no publicity whatsoever has appeared yet and again I offer the minister the chance to tell us at some later point , what the government is prepared to do to exert itself on this matter and to tell us indeed whether it wants people to register erm it is n't particularly clear whether in fact this is part of er some idea that the government has that people should n't register and I think that the minister needs to be very clear about this so that people get the message outside , because nine and a half million people did n't vote , even in the last general election . |
| 24 | And versatile international Joe Lydon has signed a new 12-month contract to keep him at Central Park . |
| 25 | The decision to keep it at 23 means fewer fixtures , less money and a greater likelihood of further clubs folding . |
| 26 | Indeed , I may say it was not my wish to see you at all . |
| 27 | The vulgar Miller intrudes , and , with his fabliau and the nature of the genre and of fabliau language in mind , we can find some amusement in contemplating the possible sexual reading of " " unbokeled is the male " " , " the purse is unbuckled " , a vulgarity that the Host , playing the role given him at this point , would no doubt have considered excluded from his words . |
| 28 | Danger of choking stopped him at that point . |
| 29 | It is the unique experience of rail travellers on the Gotthard to glimpse the same , unmistakable baroque-domed village church three times in a few minutes as the train passes it at different levels above and below . |
| 30 | The hotel manager woke me at 10 a.m. with a telegram from my mother , which had been delayed . |