Example sentences of "['s] [noun] at [pron] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A company enters into a sale and finance leaseback agreement with its pension fund , to sell the fund the company 's headquarters at its current fair market value and then lease it back on a 25 year finance lease . |
| 2 | If Picon 's experience at his last job , in San Antonio , is any indication , he may have some cause for optimism . |
| 3 | The performance itself shows Toscanini 's genius at its greatest . |
| 4 | WHILE I share Alan Whicker 's ire at his new series being screened late night , it will nevertheless continue to be compulsive viewing . |
| 5 | It was the women who had to face their children 's disappointment at their unmet wants and it was the women who constantly had to say no : |
| 6 | With Gatting dropping out of the Lord 's Test at his own request , Emburey could hardly have made a better start . |
| 7 | CARDIFF 'S joy at their 8-6 victory over Heineken League leaders Swansea in this top-of-the-table clash was shattered last night when their inspirational Australian coach Alex Evans announced he may quit the club at the end of the season . |
| 8 | It so happens that this troublesome question , or complex of questions , is not raised by the piece in Eliot 's selection that I shall take to represent Pound 's criticism at its irreplaceable best . |
| 9 | He had entered Dead Man 's Alley at its halfway point . |
| 10 | Her grandfather 's anger at her late return from Bristol — especially as she had gone there with Marshall — had been explosive . |
| 11 | She knew an instant 's anger at her own lack of foresight — she should have known Adam 's inquisitor would n't be alone — then all the training she 'd undergone in self-defence took over and she jabbed both elbows savagely backward , hearing her attacker give a pained grunt as his grip on her loosened . |
| 12 | The Greek 's friends at his previous table watched benignly ; and the phalanx of small boys switched support . |
| 13 | The next moment she was gone and when Anne learnt of the devastation of the city she could understand Maureen 's rage at her innocent question . |
| 14 | The company has also agreed to pay for half a day 's training at its own centre . |
| 15 | It was replaced by the soap Eldorado , which is struggling to get audiences equalling those of Tel 's show at its lowest ebb . |
| 16 | one of Marton 's pupils at his second school . |
| 17 | The Washington committee got Seymour 's report at their first — 7 a.m. — meeting of the day . |
| 18 | And having met him , he at once began studying him and suffering with him : observing him ab extra and sharing the inside of his head ; hence his sense that he is both witnessing and experiencing the ‘ strange smile ’ which accompanies Raskolnikov 's surprise at his own dread of meeting his landlady . |
| 19 | Yet , according to French sources , when François Mitterrand complained about the tone of Mr Bartholomew 's warnings at his recent meeting with President Bush on Martinique , the American president did not know what had been going on . |
| 20 | Personal property , including motor cars , money and other valuables , are left on the Company 's premises at your own risk . |
| 21 | A secured Home Improvement Loan is secured on your property and allows you to borrow up to 95% of your home 's value at our standard mortgage rate ( currently 15.40% ( 16.80% Typical APR ) variable ) — but you must have an Abbey National mortgage or own your home outright . |
| 22 | He had to provide his infantryman 's uniform at his own expense — a deep-blue coat with matching lapels , and blue pantaloons with red edgings . |
| 23 | He quoted from Lincoln 's speech at his second inauguration , those almost painfully moving words delivered when the end of the civil war was in sight and the country had to bind up its wounds . |
| 24 | The fact that Oslear has been stripped of his position as the umpires ' boss at their annual meeting , means that Palmer , Hampshire and the England team now fear Allan Lamb 's sensational Daily Mirror revelations may never be backed by cricket 's dithering chiefs at the Test and County Cricket Board . |
| 25 | The second half was even more of a grab-bag than the first , the suspicion growing in Jude as she watched that the parody and pastiche was a smoke-screen put up to cover the creators ' embarrassment at their own sincerity . |
| 26 | They too wish to display their dancers ' bodies at their fullest extension , therefore they must give them time , rhythm and space in which to move . |
| 27 | With teachers ' morale at its lowest ebb in living memory and with parental frustration escalating , the way was clear for Central Government to demand that schools be made much more accountable — accountable to the parent body which the teachers had for years struggled to involve in schools in the interests of the children they were teaching . |
| 28 | At Georgetown , Toyota keeps three days ' worth of stocks of imported parts , compared with 1.5 days ' worth of American parts — or four hours ' worth at its Japanese plants . |
| 29 | She had won the Fur and Feather Section with him at the Sandringham Show — ‘ Maybe that was because he was the only entry , ’ she observes drily — and later won the Palmer Cup for Pets ' Corner at her new school . |
| 30 | His death-warrant bore 58 signatures , headed by that of John Bradshaw who , born in Marple in 1602 , may have attended the School in his youth ; however , if he did , it seems to have made but little impression on him , for in his will he made bequests to increase the Masters ' salaries at his other schools , Bunbury and Middleton , and to found a new school in Marple , without mentioning Stockport . |