Example sentences of "[to-vb] [pers pn] at [art] [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ You 've got chilblains ! ’ their mother said when she came to see them at the beginning of December . |
| 2 | The man was going to meet me at the bottom of Ber Street . |
| 3 | ‘ I never dreamed I 'd come back to find you at the head of a company . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | There 's a nurse is in bed and the next thing the nurse wakes up to find him at the bottom of the bed . |
| 6 | 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 . ’ |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Any chariot may have an additional giant wolf to pull it at a cost of +4 points . |
| 9 | ‘ We will be ready to receive them at the beginning of October . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Instead of wooing the only people who should really matter — the fans — soccer often seems to leave them at the bottom of their list of priorities . |
| 16 | And on this sir I , the way the discussion 's been going over the last couple of days , erm I would like to point you at the experience of the Nottinghamshire structure plan which I 've got direct personal experience , where there the panel was persuaded to commend locations that is n't right for structure plan but was a felt able to erm name a district or district council in whose area such a strategic site might be located . |
| 17 | Already he was capable , it seemed , of making that impact on the stage which was , in record time , to put him at the top of his treacherous profession and bring on the applause of his finest contemporaries . |
| 18 | He could again ask parliament to put him at the head of the government . |
| 19 | ’ These people are willing to do it at the beginning of the night when they 're sober ’ she says . |
| 20 | Perhaps this is a challenge to put it at the centre of our lives , to think about it and , this Lent , to read the story as if we were there . |
| 21 | And Taylor said : ‘ At last , our young players now have the facilities to put us at the top of the world game . ’ |
| 22 | Erm , and we 've had , I 'm afraid to give protective notice to six members of staff , it 's about er , discussions with the erm , Tech , are not successful , then they will have to leave us at the end of this programme year , which is the thirty-first of March . |
| 23 | The latest phase obliges vehicles delivering a wide range of food products to keep them at a temperature of no more than 8C . |
| 24 | The aim , to keep them at the top of the sport . |
| 25 | He has always been fanatically into body culture , punishing his muscles to keep them at the peak of definition and tone . |
| 26 | Finally , in contrast to the previous characteristics , there are modifications which seem to have a more didactic function : corrections , display questions and a tendency on the part of the adult to initiate a high proportion of topics , and to pursue them at the expense of the topics that the child might wish to introduce . |
| 27 | ‘ It is number 52 , is n't it ? ’ she asked , just to keep him at the end of the line . |
| 28 | Like the ecu note Europe has never had , the CFA-franc note can be used anywhere in the zone , and the French guarantee to convert it at a rate of 50 CFA francs to one French franc . |
| 29 | They drove to see him at the Chapel of Repose . |
| 30 | Coleman knew them already — they had been to see him at the University of Alabama while planning the trip — and so it was natural enough that he should now take on the chore of shepherding them around the island during their stay . |