Example sentences of "[verb] [pers pn] [to-vb] at [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Merymose asked me to look at the body . ’ |
| 2 | Because they believed and they got me to believe at the time , that nationalization would be the cure for all our ills . |
| 3 | Their comments have been so interesting and helpful in enabling me to arrive at a diet plan perfected for absolute maximum effect . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | They are likely to stay for a long time with one organisation , and indeed many organisations seek to bind them to them by offering fringe benefits , particularly in the form of " loyalty bonuses " to encourage them to return at the start of each new banqueting season . |
| 6 | ‘ I want you to begin at the beginning and tell me your life . |
| 7 | I want you to look at a cow now . |
| 8 | Now the next , I want you to look at the verse prologue of the play . |
| 9 | ‘ Dave , I want you to stay at the office . |
| 10 | ‘ There 's a very special person I want you to meet at the concert tomorrow . |
| 11 | The plain fact is , if a PC does what you want it to do at a speed you 're happy with , then its performance is perfectly acceptable . |
| 12 | ‘ I told you to stay at the house . ’ |
| 13 | Despite pleas by senior police officers and the Crown Prosecution Service to remand Hagans in custody , the bench granted him bail , ordering him to stay at the Ryecroft Bail Hostel in Gloucester . |
| 14 | He could hardly expect her to queue at a bus stop . |
| 15 | A chance visit to Blackwardine caused him to look at the map for features of interest . |
| 16 | The latter is imagined to be a snake-like movement that translates the chain through the tube and allows it to escape at the tube ends . |
| 17 | This packet of light would disturb the particle and cause it to move at a speed in some direction . |
| 18 | I swing round slowly , slowly , and slowly level it to aim at the spider , slowly push it forward against the pull of the concertina pipe behind . |
| 19 | Erm , the next bit of , that I want you to find which is the address and telephone section , that also , I 'd like you to put at the front of the active binder . |
| 20 | If the partners unanimously or by a prescribed majority feel that one of their number should no longer remain with the firm they are given power to require him to retire at the end of a period of notice , typically six months or not less than six months to expire at the end of the firm 's accounting year . |
| 21 | I had told him to look at a video of the race and he would see that it was through my efforts that we had won the bronze . |
| 22 | But the quick-thinking cabbie , who picked up the woman from a pub in Exeter , Devon , alerted a cashier when the hijacker ordered him to stop at a motorway service station for cigarettes . |
| 23 | The Contraalmirante had invited her to dine at the C-in-C 's residence . |
| 24 | ‘ I tell her to sit at the back of the class , otherwise nobody can see over her head . ’ |
| 25 | Cissie had also been entertaining secret hopes that Beth just might change her mind about sending her to work at the flower shop . |
| 26 | Whereas in the 6th edition the re-written §246 dismisses the above as ‘ all my experience permitted me to say at the time … and that his research of the previous five years had wholly solved the difficulties of repetition . |
| 27 | ‘ Walked on the race course before breakfast the air balmy and very delightful , great numbers of the blue mountain parrots were making their morning meal on a large kind of the Eucalypti — two of the beautiful Nankeen night herons passed over our heads and we heard the curious note of the coul [ cowl ] bird or bald-headed friar — returned with an excellent appetite — drew all day — in the evening John called me to look at the skin of a snake more than six feet long which James shot in the act of ascending a tree — also brought me some beautiful specimens of a climbing plant bearing thick clusters of cream colour blossoms . ’ |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | Success in the Caucasian war and the friendship between Bariatinskii and the tsar restored him to favour at the centre and gave him the chance of putting his ideas into practice . |
| 30 | The aircraft flies comparatively slowly , at about 700 km/hr , but its big wings allow it to cruise at a height of more than 21 000 m — nearly double that of a transatlantic airliner . |