Example sentences of "[v-ing] [to-vb] [pers pn] at the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Parent : ‘ He does n't play with them for more than 5 minutes before wanting to throw them at the wall . ’ |
| 2 | The man was going to meet me at the bottom of Ber Street . |
| 3 | Mummy did try to help them just a teeny weeny bit cos hyacinths , he 's going to show them at the Airdrie Town Hall , Bobby . |
| 4 | His friends and colleagues were trying to persuade him at the time that this would not be wise — what on earth would happen to the British election campaign if the country had to go to war in the Gulf half-way through ? |
| 5 | Alan , I 'm sorry if I 'm sort of trying to put you at the end and continue and I I do n't intend it like that . |
| 6 | This is very contrary to our traditional view of trying to segment and fragment the information and trying to keep it at the business specific level or trying to keep it at the corporate level . |
| 7 | I 'm just trying to get them at the back did you know ? |
| 8 | He might even have been planning to meet her at the restaurant direct … |