Example sentences of "at [noun sg] [conj] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I looked at Mum and thought if only she was as nice as she looked maybe all our lives would have been better . |
| 2 | I looked across at Mum and found she was looking at Mrs Danby with an expression I did not recognize . |
| 3 | Robert Bevan , one of their number , had worked at Pont-Aven and had known Paul Gauguin , and Sickert , whose sympathy with France went deep , owned a house in Neuville , on the outskirts of Dieppe , which he lent for a time to the Gilmans . |
| 4 | Unfortunately we have no vacancies at present nor do I anticipate any in the near future . |
| 5 | The chargé , Everett Drumright , countered by reminding Rhee that the ECA was spending more than 100 million dollars in Korea at present and had perhaps its largest staff in Korea . |
| 6 | That said , the working environment in OS/2 is different enough that I found myself trying to unlearn the way I work at present and trying to use the system the way IBM meant it to be used . |
| 7 | Hilary Rowland , Chief Executive of the Trust said : ‘ Most people would recognise that the building is under-used at present and costing us money . |
| 8 | ‘ We are still investigating them at present and have not ruled them out . ’ |
| 9 | The point that I made to the Committee is that if we wish to reduce the hours of the House or change the sitting times — that is still an open question — it is important that we consider how the time of the House is used at present and to make reductions pro rata . |
| 10 | To the manager 's surprise the man freely confessed that he felt poor at supervising and did not like doing it anyway . |
| 11 | Gedge continued to reach for his guitar while at university and drifted in and out of various lineups . |
| 12 | Marsha Rowe was part-timing at university and working in a dead-end secretarial job . |
| 13 | Karelius coped by employing a technique he had first developed at university and perfected in the army : that of chewing and swallowing whilst managing to divorce his mind completely from the organs of taste . |
| 14 | Both men were typical members of the new class of civil servants , who had been educated at university and styled themselves " master " . |
| 15 | They met at university and have kept in touch ever since . |
| 16 | Langney branch manager and name ; , senior deputy manager , made a wish at Easter and turned into a rabbit and a chicken . |
| 17 | Well Karol I have to go now , see you on the balcony at Easter and watch out for those pigeons. kind regards to the papal dunces . |
| 18 | I 've discovered I 'm a purist at heart and prefer the traditional approach to the sport ! |
| 19 | ‘ But they are cowards at heart and hang back until they are sure they are safe , even then leaving themselves a route for escape . |
| 20 | Mr Trippier said the Government had the best interests of nature conservation at heart and invited the NCC council to meet him before the Government makes the reoganisation details public . |
| 21 | ‘ I 'm a traditionalist at heart and do n't bother with the padding either because it just gets in the way . ’ |
| 22 | There would be some truth in the assertion that traffic commissioners have the welfare of " bus operators very much at heart when fixing fares ; similar things could be said of airline regulators . |
| 23 | Hines ( 1972 ) , for example , using exactly the same words as McKeever and Huling ( 1971a ) replicated the latter 's finding of a right field superiority in bilateral recognition when a digit was presented at fixation but obtained a significant left field advantage without the digit . |
| 24 | A horse bred at Rise and trained on the track won the St Leger in 1779 . |
| 25 | The was hot water on demand for washing and , believe it or not , a sauna bath available at a moment 's notice , run by a scientist from Estonia who was spending his holidays working at camp and doing a bit of climbing when there was no-one wanting a little birch-twig flagellation . |
| 26 | The lads would stay put and do their washing , though one of them would drive into town at lunch-time and bring me back if I had not already managed to get a lift back myself . |
| 27 | Author of the Mission Earth series has a go at horror and gets some incredible quotes from his American peers . |
| 28 | He told the men he had late-night sittings at Parliament and stayed in town . ’ |
| 29 | Bill Hand was a little fellow with a little name — he only stood 5ft 6ins in his stockinged feet — but he was tough and sturdy and could play on the wing or at inside-forward and did so to considerable effect for the Palace in the early 1920s . |
| 30 | John Rennie , on two , then survived a sharp chance to Hutton at gully and went on to lead the recovery with a hard-hitting 84 . |