Example sentences of "[noun sg] [prep] [verb] [pron] at " in BNC.
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| 1 | Soldiers and diplomats who knew Yugoslavia well could make its complexities sound like an excuse for doing nothing at all . |
| 2 | They 've got no intention of stopping it at |
| 3 | He was the least well acquainted with Connon and had no intention of saying anything at the moment . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | And if you recall when my Colonel read John plaque it attributes to him er the aid in assisting us at in the establishment of that memorial museum , John gave us a er and sort of took that apart and hauled it over to and it was flown back to the States and that 's going to be a briefing operations room for the museum itself . |
| 6 | This argument tacitly assumes that once the collapse begins there is no hope of stopping it at a later stage . |
| 7 | Emphasize the difficulty of saying anything at all with regard to religion which may not be received by someone in a misleading way . |
| 8 | He had the faculty of meeting everyone on the level , and Father had a story of seeing him at a political meeting , which he was probably chairing , walking arm in arm with the Grand Old Man himself , both talking . |
| 9 | Of course , if you have a young family and feel water might be a hazard , the feature could become a raised sandpit or planter , which naturally gives you the opportunity of converting it at a later stage . |
| 10 | The tigress was undoubtedly familiar with every foot of the ground , and not having had an opportunity of killing me at the rocks — and her chance of bagging me at the first hairpin bend having been spoilt by the kakar — she was probably now making her way through the dense undergrowth to try to intercept me at the second bend . |
| 11 | It was all a question of catching it at the right angle . |
| 12 | This might well be so with the control of aggression and of self-seeking behaviour ; I shall make one or two remarks about this question without pursuing it at length . |
| 13 | Hyundai Electronic America 's Axil Workstations Inc is bent on conquering the slippery slopes of Sun Microsystems Inc Sparc cloning , and last week announced the Axil-220 , a MicroSparc knock-off of the Sparc Classic undercutting Sun by pricing it at $3,600 in single quantities and letting it run Solaris 1.1 as well as 2. x . |
| 14 | Turkey , plum pudding , Stilton … typical traditional fare , but from where did they originate and how did the custom for eating them at Christmas arise ? |
| 15 | She sort of collapsed me at the knees and I was down there . |
| 16 | She doubted she would ever be in danger of taking anyone at face value again , not after meeting Feargal and his sister . |
| 17 | He said the scheme could give confidence to youngsters who were in danger of losing it at a crucial time in their lives through adverse family or other circumstances . |
| 18 | It 's in the process of providing one at Benson , and it only provided the Heyford site because it had done a deal with the City Council over land and that |
| 19 | " Ed " endings are rare in catalogue searching and there is no point in removing them at the " weak " level . |
| 20 | And as Mary Douglas ( 1973 : 15 ) had pointed out , ‘ if we can not bring the argument back from tribal ethnography to ourselves , then there is little point in starting it at all ’ . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | Since they would n't want to declare their real objective , even if they had one , they see little point in having one at all . |
| 23 | Or do you not see any point in keeping them at all ? is the number to dial . |
| 24 | It interested me so much that I 've lost , or won , if you like , the whole day of reading it at the busiest period with the printers I know , waiting for copy ! |
| 25 | She thought of ringing him on the off chance of catching him at the flat , but shelved the possibility as unlikely . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | The tigress was undoubtedly familiar with every foot of the ground , and not having had an opportunity of killing me at the rocks — and her chance of bagging me at the first hairpin bend having been spoilt by the kakar — she was probably now making her way through the dense undergrowth to try to intercept me at the second bend . |
| 28 | So much is now known of the Alpine fold belts , the times and forms of their movements , and so much is now being deduced about the relationship of all this to the theories of plate tectonics , that I marvel at my audacity in saying anything at all at this stage . |
| 29 | The only problem there , though , since she would have to let Personnel at Vasey 's know where she had moved to , was that her employer would have no trouble in finding her at her new address either ! |
| 30 | We have a backlog of sites awaiting shelters , but would give priority to providing one at this location if you consider that this would be helpful . |