Example sentences of "[verb] [pers pn] at the [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Cos you will throw them at the back of the box instead of lining them up . |
| 2 | ‘ You 've got chilblains ! ’ their mother said when she came to see them at the beginning of December . |
| 3 | Then he took the stones from their pouch and laid them at the bottom of the Bowl . |
| 4 | He met them at the gates of the airfield ( still a debris of contractors ' equipment surrounded by barbed wire ) and informed them gravely that if they entered — no difficult matter — they would be breaking the law . |
| 5 | Toucans collect them one at a time , throwing them up in the air and deftly catching them at the back of their throats . |
| 6 | The wedding , planned for November … ’ ) she had learned that she was the goddaughter of Lady Bartlett ( that mother of sons … ) and had joined them at the end of July . |
| 7 | The man was going to meet me at the bottom of Ber Street . |
| 8 | Cameramen never bother me at the top of my swing . |
| 9 | ‘ We found them at the home of Nigel , your predecessor . |
| 10 | Secondly , as the weights are derived from analysis of individuals there is a serious problem of applying them at the level of wards or districts where the information is readily available only in aggregate . |
| 11 | ‘ United have emerged as favourites now and that suits me fine , as long as we are up there challenging them at the end of the season . |
| 12 | She thinks the microwave ‘ has changed our perceptions of time , much as telephones changed them at the turn of the century ’ . |
| 13 | Then would having a good head for numbers be the sort of thing that would individuate them at the level of their soul ? |
| 14 | ‘ I never dreamed I 'd come back to find you at the head of a company . |
| 15 | Throughout much of 1948 Minton had been working up oils based on his drawings and watercolours of Corsica for an exhibition at the Lefevre , initially promised him at the end of that year but not mounted until February 1949 . |
| 16 | Cecil has not won the 2,000 Guineas since Wollow scored in 1976 , but Pursuit of Love is a genuine contender and it will take a convincing performance from either Forest Tiger or Dr Devious in today 's Craven Stakes to displace him at the head of Ladbrokes ' market — and other firms could well follow suit . |
| 17 | There 's a nurse is in bed and the next thing the nurse wakes up to find him at the bottom of the bed . |
| 18 | It was four hours later when they woke to find him at the foot of the bed saying : ‘ I 've got a gun and I 'm going to shoot you . ’ |
| 19 | The Doc 's patented micro-organisms were beavering away inside , keeping her at the peak of perfection . |
| 20 | Out in the dark cold hall she stopped him at the foot of the stairs . |
| 21 | De Gaulle wanted the agricultural settlement but was not prepared to accept it at the price of giving in to the other five and the Commission on the issues of resourcing and budgetary control . |
| 22 | Under the heading ‘ A better quality of life ’ , Labour 's policy review for the 1990s declared that the future of the planet depended on keeping it at the top of the agenda : |
| 23 | A university congregates together that type of personality and places it at the disposal of the succeeding generation . |
| 24 | Whenever she washed the windows in one room , she would mark the date down on the card , and place it at the end of the section . |
| 25 | A smith uses a hammer very differently to most tradesmen , never holds it at the bottom of the shaft , for the resulting whip means that power is lost so they always clench the tool near the head . |
| 26 | ‘ We will be ready to receive them at the beginning of October . |
| 27 | All in all , it is in no way surprising that Nietzsche should have put them to one side soon after writing them at the turn of the year . |
| 28 | It would be better to try and beat them at the bottom of the curve rather than when the South Africans were improving . |
| 29 | I was still very pleased , however , when the statistician Ian Hodge told me at the end of the year that I had moved from being 156th in the world 100 metres ranking list in 1985 to 4th in 1986 ! |
| 30 | ‘ She was dynamic , had tremendous energy and was thoroughly decisive , ’ Bramall told me at the launch of a book , The Chiefs , which he has written with Gen Sir William Jackson . |