Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] [pers pn] [to-vb] at a " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | As will be appreciated , this is a very artificial categorization , little more than a rather crude device to enable us to look at a complex matter . |
| 3 | My father taught me to read at a very early age . |
| 4 | A few days later , immediately alongside the busy M40 , a pause at traffic-lights enabled me to glance at a dense assembly of birds , as closely-packed as starlings , extending for almost a quarter of a mile along the edge of the arable field , and I was able to identify them as a mixture of Lapwing and ‘ goldies , ’ all immobile , and many of the latter with their heads tucked in as if fast asleep . |
| 5 | 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 . |