Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] [verb] [pron] at [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She plans to launch her own designer clothes label but that is one area where her younger sister has pipped her at the post . |
| 2 | The tigress was undoubtedly familiar with every foot of the ground , and not having had an opportunity of killing me at the rocks — and her chance of bagging me at the first hairpin bend having been spoilt by the kakar — she was probably now making her way through the dense undergrowth to try to intercept me at the second bend . |
| 3 | The defendant then made an agreement with the plaintiffs in which ‘ in consideration that the plaintiffs , at the request of the defendant , would deliver to the defendant ’ the cargo of coal , the defendant promised to unload it at a stated rate . |
| 4 | ‘ His agent came to see us at the St Louis Lollapalooza show , and we talked about the possibility of doing something together . |
| 5 | This was pronounced with a kind of funereal satisfaction , and for a moment Jackson could imagine the remorseless gossip that someone else 's tragedy had afforded her at the time . |
| 6 | Katherine 's very presence seemed to provoke her at every turn . |
| 7 | I 'm the female lead , the hero has to get me at the end . |
| 8 | As time and cost constraints make extensive physical experimentation increasingly difficult to justify , the transport sector has installed itself at the forefront of the model revolution . |
| 9 | I turned to find that a girl had joined me at the bar . |
| 10 | Now imagine that instead of sitting behind his desk your boss had met you at the door and ushered you to a seat , then pulled up a chair next to you . |
| 11 | Margaret Jones claims her husband tried to murder her at the family home in Brockhampton , by pumping exhaust fumes from the garage into her bedroom . |
| 12 | Daddy has to leave it at the garage . |
| 13 | I could make it a fairy-tale instead , if I wanted to , Anyway , It 's the capital of the empire ; a courtier starts a liaison with one of the princesses ; the demands she and the impersonate on his time get to be too much , so he secretly has an android made to impersonate him at the endless court rituals and boring receptions ; nobody notices . |
| 14 | Highly ambitious , but not a high achiever , Modesty and a lack of confidence have kept her at the Post Office ‘ instead of earning twice as much as Lord Hanson ’ . |
| 15 | One god suggested placing it at the top of the highest mountain ; another on the farthest star . |
| 16 | Yet Mr Subirachs 's sculptures for the cathedral have placed him at the centre of a storm . |
| 17 | However , it seemed the news that a low-class woman had presented herself at the back door alerted Master Jobbernole to the possible reason for her presence and its consequences . |
| 18 | She was close enough to the dead man to arrange to meet him at an isolated spot without arousing suspicions . |
| 19 | ‘ By pushing the boat out unilaterally , ’ says Weir Group 's Ron Garrick , ‘ the Government has put us at a severe disadvantage compared with our German and American counterparts . |
| 20 | She got the reel of film through customs without any trouble , and a man came to collect it at the hotel . |
| 21 | No industrialist liked to put himself at the mercy of creditors . |
| 22 | For reasons linked to the physical strength needed to operate them at the beginning , spinning mules were operated by men . |
| 23 | She alleged that the doctor had told her at a seminar that she desired Lozano . |
| 24 | Tight in his hand he held the silver coin that Dad had given him at the front door . |
| 25 | When I asked Lee what 's going on , he told me this guy had met him at the airport and that he had a letter and had said he 'd caddied for Henry Cotton . |
| 26 | The Cheyney brothers were notable in Anglo-Italian society of the 1820s and 1830s , and were especially connected with Rome , where their mother had established herself at the Palazzo Sciarra . |
| 27 | Her mother had telephoned her at the nurses ' home where she had been living and had asked her if she could come home . |