Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] [prep] [pron] at the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I asked for it at the suggestion of my cousin Sarah , who was slightly older than me and whom I greatly admired . |
| 2 | I suggest to them at the beginning of each session that they will learn about a different existence from any they may already have experienced . |
| 3 | I played in one at the previous place I worked . |
| 4 | I look around me at the massed ranks of Lowestoftians , their vacant faces bearing mute witness to the devastation the town has wrought on their limbic systems . |
| 5 | ‘ I read about it at the time , but I heard none of the details . |
| 6 | I warned against it at the time , telling investors not to touch it with a bargepole . |
| 7 | What if I decide against it at the last minute ? |
| 8 | When he emerged I saw behind him at the door a small , black-haired , middle-aged Japanese woman in a red kimono . |
| 9 | However , when I think of him at the Departments of the Environment and of Education and Science , I realise that it probably was his finest hour . |
| 10 | I smiled to myself at the absurdity of it . |
| 11 | Closing my eyes in the gloom I could still feel Helen in my arms and I smiled to myself at the memory of her bounding healthiness . |
| 12 | I do n't like the idea of Ventolin this is what I said to them at the hospital that I ca n't , cos I 'm not on |
| 13 | I well remember I said to myself at the time , " there is a lad who will go a long way . " |
| 14 | I see now we 've got lots to do this morning , you 're going to need to ignore what 's going on behind me , ah , it 's not happening , right , as I said to you at the very beginning of September I 'm the star , so you pay attention to me . |
| 15 | As he later admitted in an interview with CA Magazine , ‘ I said to someone at the time , I never again want to conduct a debate lasting three years without once being able to raise my voice ’ . |
| 16 | And I meant what I said about you at the start of this . |
| 17 | I waited for you at the gate . |
| 18 | Can I sit with you at the back some time . |
| 19 | ‘ Last December , ’ he continued in a lower voice , ‘ I ran across him at the Warton Castle sale in Sussex . |
| 20 | As the British Airways Boeing 757 twin-engined jet touched down on Runway 27 Left at Heathrow at 8.33 a.m. , Adam concluded that there would probably be someone watching for him at the shuttle terminal . |
| 21 | As I wrote to you at the time ( since you refused even then to see me or any of your old friends and supporters ) I accepted the MS as a sacred trust and would do what I could to see that it eventually saw the light of day in the most appropriate form . |
| 22 | I sat opposite him at the Christmas do and he spent ages talking to me . |
| 23 | His first feeling as he emerged from the short but deep sleep which came to him at the end of every restless night , was that he was bloody glad to be alive . |
| 24 | Once ensconced in her burrow , the female mite will soon begin to lay eggs , which accumulate behind her at the rate of three or four a day . |
| 25 | ‘ Call Moinet ! ’ he ordered , walking completely into the room , ignoring Jenna 's blushes as she sat there in her nightie , which was n't particularly revealing but which felt like it at the moment . |
| 26 | And somebody said to me at the last children 's mass , thank you , you 're the only one that tells us we 're not needed . |
| 27 | Perhaps you have observed me , I am often around , if you are not fixed up at the moment what about me waiting for you at the bus stop tonight ? |
| 28 | That satraps as well as the king had their entourage of fellow-diners is proved by Xenophon 's Anabasis ( i.8.25 ) which says that Cyrus the Younger had his ‘ table-sharers ’ , and by Diodorus ' description ( xvii.20 ) of the ‘ kinsmen ’ of the satrap Spithrobates , who fought with him at the battle of the Granikos in 334 . |
| 29 | Right , well what do you think of it at the front ? |
| 30 | She sighed to herself at the boring predictability of it . |