Example sentences of "[vb past] [to-vb] [pron] at [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Although my household and ARP duties did not allow of a visit to the Western hospital some folk came to see us at the main post , and laugh at the fact that the Steward of the hospital had had to send the last of his well-trained clerks to Egypt to help count the number of prisoners and try to get the provision for them in some sort of order . |
| 3 | They prepared to launch themselves at the waiting cordon of brawnier , no longer jeering , senior cadets . |
| 4 | They were almost shouting at one another , and both seemed to realise it at the same time . |
| 5 | On the Left Bank the Germans began to find themselves at an increasing tactical disadvantage . |
| 6 | Moses , for instance , was a whimpering mass of inferiority as God began to commission him at the burning bush . |
| 7 | The Patriotic People 's Front ( PPF ) , the umbrella grouping which had comprised the HSWP and other parties represented in the government before liberalization measures were introduced , decided to dissolve itself at a national conference in May 1990 following the poor election result . |
| 8 | I went to visit him at the Benedictine monastery at Nashdom and asked him for any insights which he could give me from his experience in Accra . |