Example sentences of "[vb infin] [pers pn] at the [noun sg] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We decided to use our green ballot box that we made and painted for the Maastricht campaign for people to post their cards into so that we can count them at the end and post them all together . |
| 2 | Onassis invited me — I did n't know him at the time but later we became great friends — and we talked . |
| 3 | ‘ We did not know it at the time but the torch we lit in Britain , which transformed our country — the torch of freedom that is now the symbol of our party — became a beacon that has shed its light across the Iron Curtain into the East . |
| 4 | I did n't know it at the time but a greater blow awaited me A few days later Mrs Rumney was on the phone again . |
| 5 | ‘ The car will collect you at the airport and then you will be brought to the Hacienda de Nieve . |
| 6 | You may not feel it at the moment because I 've blocked your mind from the pain . |
| 7 | She could not convince me at the time that anything bad could happen , now that I had finally ‘ solved ’ my eating problems , and for a short time I felt jubilant , relieved and ecstatic . |
| 8 | Yeah , cos I might , I might see you at the station if you get the train . |
| 9 | Did you see it at the cinema or on video ? |
| 10 | I did n't realize it at the time but I think it wants |
| 11 | But I really did like it at the end when he got back with his mother and the rest of the family and they had a lovely Christmas with hundreds of presents . |
| 12 | She could never face him at the party if she did n't know where she stood — did n't know whether or not he had rejected her apology or was prepared to be friendly . |
| 13 | If you ca n't hear me at the back because my voice drops from time to time then shout away because I 'm not always aware of how well it carries . |
| 14 | When Inner City were taking off , people would phone me at the store and ask for Paris . |
| 15 | ‘ There is a telephone call for you , Miss Kingsdale , ’ he smiled , and quickly added , ‘ You can take it at the desk if you wish . ’ |
| 16 | And he added : ‘ We do n't want him at the club and if I have anything to do with it , he 's not coming back at all . ’ |
| 17 | At a separate news conference , Sugar was in equally confident mood , telling reporters : ‘ We do n't want him at the club and if I have anything to do with it , he 's not coming back at all . ’ |
| 18 | Or I mean I think he 's , she 's bitten him before , if he had any sense he 'd leave them at the gate or something , I mean somebody would go for them . |
| 19 | No but you see I could n't tell you at the start because you 'd sound , you would n't have said half the things you did say . |
| 20 | and erm , she 's desperate at the end or something , she for good or something but she does get him at the end or summat , at er E Street , E Street started last night , it 's on Sky , erm , it seems canny |
| 21 | You got ta , se when you go up on the scales you 've got ta er say eight ten to ma he carried two pound overweight so you 've got ta put him at the scale and then the end of , the governor relies on the travel head lad to do this , the same as I 'm head man at home . |
| 22 | Erm I I 'm speaking from recollection sir at having looked into this in the context of planning appeal which is now a little while ago , but it did strike me at the time that er there was a definite feeling that the agricultural issue was very strong protection of ag agricultural land throughout was a strong issue up to er the mid nineteen eighties and certainly was up to the time in late seventy nine early nineteen eighty and er therefore there was a feeling that Policy E three simply er was supplementary to those other policies . |
| 23 | Well that , that 's why I think I went down so hard when I did n't get that job cos she said , I , I took , I took the erm , I went , I was the first , to go , first of all I did n't put in for this job it 's one that 's been laying around since last September , I wrote to , kept to St. Mary 's for this mental health thing and I got in touch with this Mrs and she said I 've got nothing I can offer you at the moment but I , I will be in touch and I went down the job centre one day and erm , there was this thing to say that they wanted mental nurses |
| 24 | Devlin majority 774 votes says third runner-up in the 1987 General Election , Labour 's John Scott , might pip him at the post if ‘ the anti-Labour vote is split . ’ |
| 25 | It 's like , with Sharon Stone , even at the end she was still dependent on Michael Douglas , like , when he was going she was crying and she could n't kill him at the end cos she loved him so much and , you know what I mean , so no , Body of Evidence , it 'll probably have a rubbish end and she 'll probably marry the lawyer or something , but it was still good to see her beat , tying a man up , putting candle wax on him and shit . |