Example sentences of "[noun] [to-vb] [pron] at the [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 I have today won a concession from the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry , in as much as he is going to give a delegation from the Southampton and district licensed victuallers an opportunity to see him at the Department to talk over some of these matters .
2 It accuses " particular producer groups " of " manipulating domestic environmental policies to benefit themselves at the expense of both the rest of the economy and ultimately even the environment " .
3 I was still more surprised when some of their parents arrived in motor cars to see them at the weekend
4 It was a great pleasure to meet you at the Conference in Lisbon and to talk about your proposal for an introduction to CALL .
5 The civil rights marches created an opportunity for Ian Paisley to put himself at the head of plebeian Protestant resistance to the civil rights movement .
6 He was awakened just before noon by the Master of Novices who announced that a message had come from John Benstede asking for Corbett to present himself at the castle immediately .
7 The president , meanwhile , stood high in the public opinion polls after the attempt to assassinate him at the end of March .
8 Last Wednesday we invited the 4 British students studying at the University to visit us at the hotel for dinner .
9 Clough will consider it a much needed morale booster if he can get Keane 's signature on the new deal , even though the battle to keep him at the City Ground is far from being won .
10 On their behalf , a local radio station has launched a campaign to keep him at the County Ground .
11 The much-rumoured pact will see Insignia admit it has a license to Windows source code and the right to modify it at the application programming interface level to improve the performance of SoftPC , its Windows-on-Unix package .
12 The much-rumoured pact will see Insignia admit it has a licence to Windows source code and the right to modify it at the application programming interface level to improve the performance of SoftPC , its Windows-under-Unix package .
13 It is worth mentioning , all the same , that a time will come when a frequent absentee can be fairly dismissed and that a failure to consult him at the time of dismissal will not necessarily mean that the company will be powerless to resist an unfair dismissal claim .
14 And of course the , with the boxes being all round the side , the dressing boxes , this was outmoded , we needed a building at the side , which there was sufficient room to build something at the side because we had a park at the side of it then .
15 He figured it was worth a nickel to call me at the Globe , and he 's not a wasteful man . ’
16 The title track delivers the most catchy moments and it was a good ploy by the group to place it at the end of the tape .
17 As soon as the basic tasks were finished , it was Jonadab 's custom to seat himself at the parlour table with a ledger and a leather drawstring bag full of money .
18 He could again ask parliament to put him at the head of the government .
19 Several months before , he had been almost sleek , thanks to fourteen-mile walks and his wife 's efforts to police him at the table .
20 He has always been fanatically into body culture , punishing his muscles to keep them at the peak of definition and tone .
21 I remembered your instruction to join you at the Abbey of Holy Rood .
22 It is of little use to remember the answer to an examination question as you leave the room , or to say later with head in hands , " But I knew it so well " , surprised at your ability to remember it now but your inability to recall it at the time when you most needed it .
23 ‘ It will please the Colonel to see them at the breakfast-table in the morning , ’ I-said .
24 Could I make an appointment to see her at the Education Office to sort out the dinner money debts once and for all — hopefully .
25 ‘ There will be no great welcome back here for the tour party — the only people to meet them at the airport will be their wives , ’ he said bitterly .
26 The man at the top leaves go once you 've got it well resting on the ladder and he runs down the stairs to meet you at the bottom by which time you 've got to the bottom rung , he comes takes one side of the wardrobe , you take the other and that 's all there is to it .
27 The existence of such an educational establishment aroused widespread interest amongst the intelligentsia , causing Dr Samuel Johnson to inspect it at the end of his tour of the Hebrides in 1773 .
28 An order may require the child to allow the supervisor to visit him at the place where he is living ( para 8(1) ( b ) ) .
29 Their first priority to trace everyone at the party — at least forty people some of them gatecrashers .
30 He arranged for Len to have them at the camp . ’
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