Example sentences of "[verb] [to-vb] [pron] at the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When screening began we agreed to discontinue it at the end of the first year if there were a number of traumatised families . |
| 2 | ‘ I expected to see you at the ball last night , Sharpe ! ’ |
| 3 | If Rohan needed to have a private word with her , why had n't he arranged to see her at the house instead ? |
| 4 | His ex-wife Margaret claims he tried to kill her at the family home in Brockhampton . |
| 5 | She had n't really expected to see him at the funeral , though she had looked forward to the possibility with unseemly excitement considering the solemnity of the occasion . |
| 6 | And he had probably expected to see her at the shop this morning , while she had been waiting impatiently at his office . |
| 7 | You may need to adjust it at the centre on long pieces since the ends tend to pull rather tightly to start with . |
| 8 | In Wales also Gloucester was expected to set himself at the head of existing officials . |
| 9 | In Wales also Gloucester was expected to set himself at the head of existing officials . |
| 10 | If we want to buy anything at the moment we have to borrow the money . |
| 11 | Daddy has to leave it at the garage . |
| 12 | The elder of the two policemen smiled at Sarah but she dropped her eyes and tried to busy herself at the sink . |
| 13 | ‘ Somebody tried to phone her at the flat . |
| 14 | But I 've got a lot of time for Tom Clarke , he 's a nice man and it would be absolutely disgusting if anyone tried to dump him at the moment . ’ |
| 15 | Margaret Jones claims her husband tried to murder her at the family home in Brockhampton , by pumping exhaust fumes from the garage into her bedroom . |
| 16 | I 'm the female lead , the hero has to get me at the end . |
| 17 | After he had come to collect her at the flat they joined a party of junior officers and debutantes at the Haymarket Theatre to see Pygmalion by the fashionable playwright George Bernard Shaw . |
| 18 | My husband had come to collect us at the airport and we came back here in a minicar . |
| 19 | Now he wants to test himself at the top : ‘ I 'm as ambitious as the next man . |
| 20 | They drove to see him at the Chapel of Repose . |
| 21 | ‘ You 've got chilblains ! ’ their mother said when she came to see them at the beginning of December . |
| 22 | We hope to see you at the show . |
| 23 | 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 . ’ |
| 24 | She got the reel of film through customs without any trouble , and a man came to collect it at the hotel . |
| 25 | Parent : ‘ He does n't play with them for more than 5 minutes before wanting to throw them at the wall . ’ |
| 26 | If the original is in the possession of one party to the proceedings who refuses to produce it at the request of another party , a copy will be admissible . |
| 27 | He came in too fast and had to swing to avoid something at the end of his run — the undercarriage collapsed . |
| 28 | As she went she remembered that Angela had promised to meet her at the bus-stop . |
| 29 | The man was going to meet me at the bottom of Ber Street . |
| 30 | better than not being able to afford to do it at the moment , |