Example sentences of "[noun sg] [to-vb] [pers pn] at [art] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 It was a pleasure to meet you at the Scottish Taxi Federation exhibition at Riccarton last week .
2 Hewett despatched Charlton around the outside of the inn to meet them at the outside door , while he and the landlord hurried through to the tap room .
3 It needs a powerful machine to run it at a reasonable speed but even if you do n't have such a machine you need to know about it as a sign of things to come .
4 He annoyed her in many ways — mostly by his incurable facetiousness , which went down very badly with her girl friends , and by his desire to undress her at every possible opportunity .
5 The amount of a christian 's concern for these issues should not be based upon denominational preference or doctrinal bias , but upon a willingness to allow the compassion of loving God to affect us at the deepest level of our beings .
6 If you have n't read it you will have ample chance to read it at a later date and if you have , you would know what I was going to say .
7 Our competitors who use their better provision of education to beat us at the economic game — show us how a slender force of educated human resources , our current situation , is no basis for technical expertise in volume , for high intellect in commerce , for leadership quality in management , or for any other human component of economic success .
8 Too close and you get swept over the edge except that they usually have some sort of wire-mesh barrier to stop you at the last moment .
9 He told the reporter , who was driven blindfold to meet him at a secret location , that gangsters doused one of his two sons with petrol and threatened to kill them both if he did not co-operate in the theft .
10 Yes it 's been understood that it was a routing thing to put them at the right side of Southwell to drive through the middle of it .
11 If the material is being used on a table or flat surface , it means that in order to use it at a close distance from the eye , the head is bent low over the book in order to try to discriminate the print .
12 If a teenager decides to earn money doing a paper round , or a Saturday job , there is no reason why their mother should set her alarm in order to wake them at an unearthly hour .
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