Example sentences of "[conj] [verb] [pers pn] at the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the corner of another carriage there sits , his face screened by a magazine , some lonely soul who has no one to bid him adieu at this end of his journey or welcome him at the other . |
| 2 | Alternately , the Commissioner and his most senior colleagues invite them to Scotland Yard , or visit them at the ALA building nearby . |
| 3 | Do you want to give them now or do it at the end ? |
| 4 | Everything goes fine until , having chosen the number of blend steps ( or leaving it at the default number ) , I click on OK . |
| 5 | The disorder that had seemed to him for decades to determine the course of events regrouped itself like a pile of iron filings suddenly organized by a magnet , and he had a flash of optimism when it appeared quite possible that men in the days to come might wish to find out more than concerned them at the moment . |
| 6 | Like someone in a trance , she gazed at the clasp that fastened it at the throat . |
| 7 | That shooting The London boxing promoter Mickey Duff said : ‘ The only thing that worries me at the moment is his speedy recovery . ’ |
| 8 | I like it when you 've got the FX actually going through the amplifier , rather than adding it at the desk , because there 's a certain quality and tonality when everything 's going through that guitar speaker . |
| 9 | I think that one of the things that get me at the moment is the time keeping , it 's very bad |
| 10 | ‘ Than calling you at the office . ’ |
| 11 | But I , but I think you know the , the , the thing that I found erm most difficult as you say was , was actually completing the C C Q and I think part of it and asking the question but it is , certainly it would be easier to do it using that on your knee rather than doing it at the table because I was aware that I was turning away |
| 12 | 65 ) that the historian 's duty is ‘ to rejudge the conduct of men , that generous actions may be snatched from oblivion , and that the author of pernicious counsels , and the perpetrator of evil deeds may see , beforehand , the infamy that awaits them at the tribunal of posterity ’ . |
| 13 | Most people vary enormously in the reserves that they have available , so that the things that floor them at the end of term may be the same small irritations that they sailed through at the beginning . |
| 14 | the sad news for golfers is that you 've a better chance of watching the sport than playing it at the Oxfordshire club … membership is being limited to 750 and the joining fee is twenty five thousand pounds … |
| 15 | The scene that greeted her at the top was already less frightening than it had been when Phoebe arrived . |
| 16 | Then he took the stones from their pouch and laid them at the bottom of the Bowl . |
| 17 | There was not a needy person among them , for as many as were possessors of lands or houses sold them , and brought the proceeds of what was sold and laid it at the apostles ’ feet ; and distribution was made to each as any had need' ( Acts 4:32 , 34–5 ) . |
| 18 | First , the testator takes a blank piece of paper and signs it at the bottom . |
| 19 | The main duty of the foresters of fee was of course the safe keeping of vert and venison : the Forest rolls show them searching for , arresting and attaching offenders , and indicting them at the Forest Eyre . |
| 20 | And er I remembering Dad , once he bought a cherry tree , and went up to get all these here cherries off the trees , and when we got them we used to wipe them and put them in a bag , and sell them at the fairs . |
| 21 | When he got there , he pulled an enormous bell-mouthed gun — I imagine it was a blunder-buss — from his belt and levelled it at the monster . |
| 22 | We jumped out and met him at the rear of the vehicle and tried to show him a letter of introduction from the Algerian Ambassador to Britain , Lakhdar Brahimi . |
| 23 | Send us a cartoon or a caricature on the theme of 20th-century Oxford and we 'll publish the best two entries and display them at the Ashmolean . |
| 24 | A stout butler led Alexandra across a hall floored in gleaming yellow wood and lined with large dark paintings , and announced her at the drawing-room door . |
| 25 | Deliberately , he lifted the photograph and flung it at the fireplace . |
| 26 | She had drawn her fair hair high into an elaborate plait down the back of her head and fastened it at the bottom with a wide tortoiseshell clasp : it looked distinguished and competent , but nowhere near cuddly . |
| 27 | A university congregates together that type of personality and places it at the disposal of the succeeding generation . |
| 28 | They can decide which pathways to follow and explore them at the time they ‘ read ’ the document . |
| 29 | A Hong Kong-based Scottish engineer and historian , Mr Charles Walker , is behind the scheme to inscribe a gravestone and place it at the spot where Liddell is known to have been buried . |
| 30 | Whenever she washed the windows in one room , she would mark the date down on the card , and place it at the end of the section . |