Example sentences of "[to-vb] [pers pn] at the [noun sg] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Crilly tells me to meet him at the Hope and Vixen in half an hour . |
| 2 | We went out to meet him at the airport and Signe hugged him and told him how much she 'd missed him and how she had cooked all his favourite foods for one vast homecoming meal but she had had an urgent phone call about sickness in the family and the dinner had all burned up so now we must eat in a restaurant . |
| 3 | His partner had suddenly remembered her brothers were to meet her at the door and take her home ( an old trick , this ) . |
| 4 | England captains must not do things like that , but they had not been able to sack him at the time because of the provocation he had been under ; now that he had stepped out of line again he gave them a heaven-sent opportunity to administer the axe . |
| 5 | Alan , I 'm sorry if I 'm sort of trying to put you at the end and continue and I I do n't intend it like that . |
| 6 | His friends and colleagues were trying to persuade him at the time that this would not be wise — what on earth would happen to the British election campaign if the country had to go to war in the Gulf half-way through ? |
| 7 | The reasons that we need guidelines now is we had n't time to study them at the time and up to the present moment , as far as I 'm aware there 's one section that 's just been formed a couple of months ago . |
| 8 | And if Unix is destined to dominate mainstream data processing , does n't it make sense to run it at the desktop as well — why have two different — and ultimately competing — operating system worlds when the expressed ideal is to have everything working seamlessly together from desktop to the multiprocessor servers that threaten to supplant the monolithic mainframe ? |
| 9 | If I had ever thought of the possibility of being taken prisoner while I was in England , I should have expected all Germans to be like the officer who had tried to interrogate me at the aerodrome or the two soldiers who had brought me from the aerodrome to Amsterdam . |
| 10 | ‘ Wants us to join him at the mortuary as soon as we can … |
| 11 | For the moment we have to charge the fee , we can not waive it , but we have to charge it , but we have to charge it at the level that is set by the government and which is subject to review and er and er Mr has , has drawn our attention to has recently been increased . |
| 12 | My husband had come to collect us at the airport and we came back here in a minicar . |
| 13 | The plonker does n't actually know how to operate it at the moment but he will once he 's passed his night school exams . |