Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] to [noun] at the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I report to H.Q at the appointed time . |
| 2 | I went to university at the Sorbonne in Paris , entered the royal service , and joined the French crown 's legion of secret agents called the Luciferi , the Light-Bearers . |
| 3 | I wrote to Fender at the Arbiter Group PLC enclosing a blank cheque and requesting a lead and an instruction booklet , but received a short note by return informing us that leads had to be purchased through their dealer network and instruction booklets were not supplied with this guitar . |
| 4 | Erm David , I wrote to Margaret at the Employment Training Unit , |
| 5 | The lift was absolutely essential for some of the barrels were extremely large being brought from the Goods Station on horse-drawn drays and then manoeuvred to the road on specially constructed ramps which clipped to bars at the back of the carts . |
| 6 | With her parents , she moved to Wales at the age of 14 and served in the RAF — briefly — as a nurse . |
| 7 | An inspector who came to Durham at the same time as myself to read Law and the Sociology of Law , found the latter course required a move to concepts outside normal police experience . |
| 8 | One man who came to Aswan at the Queens request , was a youthful-looking Frenchman with a shock of curly hair and a slightly puzzled expression behind his glasses . |
| 9 | A child who came to school at the age of five dirty and smelling of urine would never be able to benefit from the experience of school if , as a consequence , she were shunned and rejected by her classmates . |
| 10 | Rhoda said when she came to tea at the weekend , ‘ You only remember what you want to remember , Ken ; serve you right . |
| 11 | Social activities Provided that they do not stop you going to bed at the proper time , social activities are a very good way of adjusting to the new time zone , particularly if they enable you to spend time out-of-doors in natural daylight at the times recommended in Table 11.2 . |
| 12 | Are you going to bonfire at the weekend ? |
| 13 | Molly said so in her letters- not those she wrote home but the ones she addressed to Judith at the store . |
| 14 | But she feared that when she returned to work at the unit , the problems she had complained about would still be there . |
| 15 | She returned to Bala at the end of World War II and lived at Hirwyn , Trem-y-Ffridd . |
| 16 | For several afternoons a week she went to work at the Young England kindergarten run by Victoria Wilson and Kay Seth-Smith in St Saviour 's church hall in Pimlico . |
| 17 | And she went to Egypt at the end of last year . |
| 18 | In debate with Trypho , Justin exploited this principle : because the almighty Father is transcendent , the God who appeared to Moses at the burning bush can not have been the Father but his Word and Reason ( Logos ) who is therefore ‘ other than the Father in number though not in will ’ . |
| 19 | Making herself lean back into her walk as though she had all the time in the world , she paused to rubberneck at the clash of signs and scents and jingles . |
| 20 | She wrote to Jane at the start of her employment : ‘ There are two things I beg you to do : get your time each day in the fresh air and strictly limit the hours you spend on your work , which I have always had to do anyway with such a large family and it does make sense in the end . |
| 21 | And then you come to Rochester at the end erm oh well , I mean , without finding quotations erm he is the synthesis is n't it ? |
| 22 | It is the angel Gabriel who comes to Charlemagne at the end of the poem , just as Gabriel and Michael — the fighting archangel , whose cult was flourishing anew in the tenth and eleventh centuries — come to Roland to carry his soul to heaven ; the poem is definitely Christian , and an attempt to set a religious seal on knightly glory ; but the knightly glory has in its turn captured the Church , and harnessed it , in the person of the archbishop of Rheims , to the holy war against the infidel . |
| 23 | One went to bed at the house … and awoke to find himself first being strangled , then taken to a bath . |
| 24 | Figure 3.1 shows that if we go to bed at the ‘ normal ’ time we sleep about eight hours , a result that most of us would accept as part of our daily experience . |
| 25 | ‘ I wish we went to bed at the same time . |
| 26 | Well , you can stay with the Brigade as Piper until we return to England at the close of the Normandy campaign . ’ |
| 27 | Whenever they came to meetings at the department they sat at opposite ends of the table . |
| 28 | And for some time after that they went to bed at the same time and Ellen gave up both Jed and the Director of Social Services ; and when both threatened , in grief , spite and unreason , to report her infidelity to Bernard , said , ‘ Tell away ! ’ and neither of them did , which rather disappointed her . |
| 29 | They went to dinner at the Hall . |
| 30 | The only recourse was to get out of England altogether and so , with some hesitation , they travelled to Morocco at the end of the month . |