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

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1 It was a pleasure to meet you at the Scottish Taxi Federation exhibition at Riccarton last week .
2 Hewett despatched Charlton around the outside of the inn to meet them at the outside door , while he and the landlord hurried through to the tap room .
3 The fact that the Prime Minister of Great Britain had twice flown to Germany to intercede with him , and on the third occasion had hurried across Europe with the heads of the French and Italian Governments to meet him at the shortest possible notice , constituted a personal triumph for Hitler .
4 Nor was hegemony an inevitable or universal phenomenon , and conscious efforts to combat it at the ideological level were a necessary part of the socialist project .
5 The amount of a christian 's concern for these issues should not be based upon denominational preference or doctrinal bias , but upon a willingness to allow the compassion of loving God to affect us at the deepest level of our beings .
6 Our competitors who use their better provision of education to beat us at the economic game — show us how a slender force of educated human resources , our current situation , is no basis for technical expertise in volume , for high intellect in commerce , for leadership quality in management , or for any other human component of economic success .
7 Too close and you get swept over the edge except that they usually have some sort of wire-mesh barrier to stop you at the last moment .
8 Meanwhile SunSelect continues to be skittish on any questions about WABI 's list price , packaging , availability or anything else substantive , ostensibly because of the gala rollout it has planned for May 5 at the 500-seat Great American Music Hall in San Francisco , having ditched plans to hold it at the giant Paramount Theater in Oakland , California .
9 Leighton 's error in allowing Didier Deschamps to beat him at the near post and present France with an advantage they did not deserve was crucial to the outcome of the match .
10 Yes it 's been understood that it was a routing thing to put them at the right side of Southwell to drive through the middle of it .
11 Their aspiration to hold everyone at the ethical level of the enlightened bourgeoisie encountered the strong disapproval of Friedrich Nietzsche , who wrote under the heading : G. Eliot —
12 Tommy winked at Rose , then left Charlie to join her at the far end of the bar .
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