Example sentences of "[vb infin] [pron] at [art] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Cos you will throw them at the back of the box instead of lining them up . |
| 2 | Then would having a good head for numbers be the sort of thing that would individuate them at the level of their soul ? |
| 3 | You can buy it at the delicatessen in Long Barton , you know . ’ |
| 4 | A system where the user presses a series of buttons without thought and gets exactly what he needs ( rather than what he at that stage thinks he wants ) is efficient but not entirely educational , any more than one so difficult that the user could only throw himself at the mercy of the person sitting at the reader 's adviser desk . |
| 5 | It would be better to try and beat them at the bottom of the curve rather than when the South Africans were improving . |
| 6 | He could feel them at the small of his back , feel the scratch of the lavender garland which she still held . |
| 7 | and then they can expect them at the end of like x amount of time to be able to take over a department , then when it falls apart they 're gon na be the one to take it . |
| 8 | ‘ Our drivers can only negotiate them at a maximum of 15mph , ’ he said . |
| 9 | He 'll sacrifice nothing at the expense of quality , knowing that the customer will sacrifice him instantly if the quality of his goods or services is poor . |
| 10 | He could picture himself at the court of King Louis , accepting the thanks of his grateful monarch . |
| 11 | ‘ In the meantime , I 'll expect you at the office on Monday morning . |
| 12 | I 'll expect you at the Presbytery in a few days with your donation . ’ |
| 13 | As I hinted parenthetically following the quotation from Clark , it seems perverse for him to insist that we must choose one at the expense of the other . |
| 14 | ‘ I shall collect him at the end of the day . |
| 15 | If you have a young family a sandpit can be popular but do n't site it at the bottom of the garden out of sight . |
| 16 | If you ca n't do it here you ca n't do it at the beginning of the second appointment , if you ca n't do it there then the chances are you 'll do it right at the end and if you have n't made the sale I guarantee you wo n't ask . |
| 17 | Because of the recent return to figuration in the last ten years there is an enormous interest in British portraiture , but they put on a show like the ‘ Swagger portrait ’ only at the Tate Gallery ; why do n't they do it at the Gallery of Modern Art in Rome ; why not the Palazzo Reale , Milan ? |
| 18 | In case you did n't get that down , we 'll repeat it at the end of the programme . |
| 19 | and could n't clear it at the end of the quarter ? |
| 20 | Such investors tended to come in when stocks were exchanged rather than present themselves at the moment of initiation . |
| 21 | It 'll certainly do us at the moment in the winter wo n't it ? |
| 22 | If the bankrupt can not himself prepare a proper statement of affairs , the official receiver may either employ someone at the expense of the estate to assist in its preparation ( r 6.63(1) ) or make an allowance out of the estate to a named person to assist the bankrupt in its preparation ( r 6.63(2) and ( 3 ) ) . |
| 23 | ‘ Look , I 'm terribly sorry , ’ continued Blanche , ‘ to have to come back and see you at a time like this , Mr Lancaster — ’ |
| 24 | ‘ I 'll see you at the office on Monday morning , ’ Damian told her as he walked her home in the hot , humid night to her own villa next door and cicadas buzzed metallically as they walked past the fountain . |
| 25 | I 'll see you at the end of April . ’ |
| 26 | ‘ So we wo n't see you at the meet on Tuesday ? ’ |
| 27 | A worthy father should pass the tests of strength and endurance , and so she rewards the efforts of those who are still fit enough to subdue and defend her at the end of the arduous rut . |
| 28 | Poindexter , weary , did not really want to know and had no memory of the memo at all ; he told him he would see him at the office in the morning . |
| 29 | Did you never see him at the City of the Horizon ? |
| 30 | Andy Platt , England 's latest recruit , has agreed a new deal with Aston Villa which will keep him at the club until 1994 . |