Example sentences of "[to-vb] [pron] at [art] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It will please the Colonel to see them at the breakfast-table in the morning , ’ I-said . |
| 2 | ‘ You 've got chilblains ! ’ their mother said when she came to see them at the beginning of December . |
| 3 | The man was going to meet me at the bottom of Ber Street . |
| 4 | ‘ I thought my secretary told you to meet me at the house in Edinburgh ? |
| 5 | Those statements may be true or false , but there is nothing in their form to exclude them at the outset from consideration . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | It was a great pleasure to meet you at the Conference in Lisbon and to talk about your proposal for an introduction to CALL . |
| 8 | ‘ I never dreamed I 'd come back to find you at the head of a company . |
| 9 | Kate had decided to skip the afternoon 's classes and arranged to meet him at the boatyard near the Tech . |
| 10 | Cecil has not won the 2,000 Guineas since Wollow scored in 1976 , but Pursuit of Love is a genuine contender and it will take a convincing performance from either Forest Tiger or Dr Devious in today 's Craven Stakes to displace him at the head of Ladbrokes ' market — and other firms could well follow suit . |
| 11 | There 's a nurse is in bed and the next thing the nurse wakes up to find him at the bottom of the bed . |
| 12 | It was four hours later when they woke to find him at the foot of the bed saying : ‘ I 've got a gun and I 'm going to shoot you . ’ |
| 13 | De Gaulle wanted the agricultural settlement but was not prepared to accept it at the price of giving in to the other five and the Commission on the issues of resourcing and budgetary control . |
| 14 | You may need to adjust it at the centre on long pieces since the ends tend to pull rather tightly to start with . |
| 15 | Any chariot may have an additional giant wolf to pull it at a cost of +4 points . |
| 16 | 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 " . |
| 17 | I can not say how strange it was , how peculiarly dead I felt , when I awoke to find myself at a distance from my father . |
| 18 | ‘ We will be ready to receive them at the beginning of October . |
| 19 | She might have tried to reach me at the office during the afternoon . |
| 20 | In Wales also Gloucester was expected to set himself at the head of existing officials . |
| 21 | In Wales also Gloucester was expected to set himself at the head of existing officials . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | The alleged assaults happened when two officers went to arrest him at a house in Cathcart Road in London . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | By April 1924 the head of every firm involved had received from Buckingham Palace a signed letter in Queen Mary 's own hand describing the Dolls ' House as ‘ the most perfect present that anyone could receive ’ , and an invitation to visit it at the Palace of Arts . |
| 26 | Last Wednesday we invited the 4 British students studying at the University to visit us at the hotel for dinner . |
| 27 | In their hands love seemed a narrow-eyed , exclusive , selfish bastard , to enjoy itself at the expense of a woman who now lay in bed in Auntie Jean 's house , her life unconsidered . |
| 28 | Draft specifications for general SVQs in this area have been sent out for consultation , and a seminar was held to discuss them at the end of October . |
| 29 | He came in too fast and had to swing to avoid something at the end of his run — the undercarriage collapsed . |
| 30 | What is important is to explore these possibilities with the students and to use the example to illustrate the difficulty of the latter method if we try to apply it at the end of 1989 when the costs to completion are uncertain . |