Example sentences of "[pers pn] [to-vb] at " in BNC.
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| 1 | There was another one came in with a little bit of a strain yesterday morning , so what 've done this morning , we 've just had a collective training session and we 've told them to report at quarter to eleven in the morning . |
| 2 | If you see prepared hyacinths still on sale , do n't expect them to flower at Christmas — it 's too late . |
| 3 | Some of these girls whose families have come from rural areas in Azad Kashmir or Mirpur feel that their parents allow them to go to school only because in Britain it would be illegal for them to remain at home . |
| 4 | To create an even greater homogeneity we excluded also all those who were doubly incontinent at referral ( since we know that the project found such people very hard to support ; see Chapter Seven ) , and all those whose condition — either mental or physical — was deemed too poor at referral for them to remain at home at all . |
| 5 | They invited them to sit at a table and were joined by an unusually tall , thin man who was extraordinarily blonde for his age which was thirty to thirtyfive . |
| 6 | Like a host in some cheerful tavern , he told them to tether their horses and ushered them in , asking them to sit at the table and wait while he finished his business in his own secret chamber . |
| 7 | There were big baskets of flowers everywhere and waitresses were giving everyone sparkly drinks and asking them to sit at long tables in the dining room . |
| 8 | When at last he placed the phone down he turned and gazed at Joe , saying in a bewildered tone , ‘ It 's Harry ; they … they want me to go at once . ’ |
| 9 | " He has never asked me to go at this time of night before , " she whispered . |
| 10 | RECENTLY , 12 WOMEN who accused Barclays Bank of sex discrimination for forcing them to retire at 60 have won a total of £160,000 , and their jobs back . |
| 11 | This line of thinking , however , seems to me to miss at least one major point . |
| 12 | The professor 's secretary , who is wearing fluffy aquamarine slippers , asks me to wait at the end of a blank corridor . |
| 13 | Much of the writing about television fiction seems to me to remain at the level of elementary genres , grounded in the dominance of the semantic aspect , with relatively little analytic or historical attention to the ‘ verbal ’ ( style , mise-en-scene ) or the ‘ syntactic ’ ( narrative structure ) : there is very little close textual analysis of television fiction , and there is no scholarly history of the development of television form to compare with the histories which have emerged of early cinema . |
| 14 | I thought it particularly nice of them to write at such length , as I had mistakenly called Roy Griffiths Mister ! |
| 15 | ’ , ‘ Comfortable woman needed , good with children … ’ , when the thought came to me that , with a roof over my head and just about enough money to live on , there was no real need for me to work at all . |
| 16 | I needed a job which would enable me to work at home , and be with my family every evening . |
| 17 | In England older men could get contract work for hedging and ditching , maintaining public spaces , or minor building repairs , which allowed them to work at their own pace . |
| 18 | For all her encouragement to them to come at any time to her house , Rose herself was wary of calling at Great Meadow . |
| 19 | ‘ If we had scored first , it would have been a better game because it would have forced them to come at us . |
| 20 | Yes there were criticism but it 's not appropriate for me to comment at the moment . |
| 21 | ‘ He 's asked me to dine at the villa he 's looking after for a few months , just to oblige a couple of ex-pats . |
| 22 | Several times while I was at Magdalen he had me to dine at All Souls with its distinguished Fellows . |
| 23 | The courier had orders for them to repair at once to Edinburgh , where the Regent was to summon an urgent Council . |
| 24 | The prevention of purprestures was his responsibility : he threw down houses , sheepfolds and other buildings and enclosures erected without licence in his bailiwick , and attached those who made them to appear at the next Forest Eyre . |
| 25 | I 'm always disappointed if there is n't a painting of his to look at when I open the magazine at his technical page ! |
| 26 | Gav said , swivelling that thick neck of his to look at me , his massive brows furrowing . |
| 27 | I want Marking Time and that three-year-old filly of yours to run at Kempton on Saturday . |
| 28 | Tomorrow she would be fresher , more able to deal with this disconcerting ability of his to disarm at will with a casual smile and a deceiving show of interest . |
| 29 | He gave Kate and her companions a brooding , sarcastic look before turning away from them to talk at length with Mike and the mechanics . |
| 30 | ‘ I told ye to hit at it , I didna' tell ye to hit it , ’ he muttered . |