Example sentences of "have [verb] [prep] [pers pn] at the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Staff are not allowed to anticipate paid leave beyond what has accrued to them at the rate shown on the annual leave slip at the time of going on leave . |
| 2 | Anyone who has served with him at the Department — and I am talking not just about his present ministerial team — knows that he not only brings a greater degree of expertise to his job than anyone I can remember but does it with great inventiveness in terms of improving benefits and with an exceptional degree of compassion and , above all , integrity . |
| 3 | And was it only yesterday when she 'd worked beside him at the barbecue while becoming vitally conscious of the attraction that made her feel drawn towards him ? |
| 4 | But I think there 's also the other end of the scale which is , which is what , you 've slightly amended this year , is the fact of elderly people erm , I know recently that myself have gone through the fact of my gran had er , was going through a very sick period , and if she 'd have come back home , it would have been very difficult for me to have had to look after her at the same time as trying to attend my council duties , and this would have been the same for my dad , and the additional income which this would have brought , to have paid someone to be able to look after her whilst we were at council meetings , and you can remember that these meetings sometimes go on , you can say well , this meeting should be over by one o'clock then it goes on till three o'clock or whatever , and then peop , the problems mount up for that person left on their own , and I think that those things have to be taken into consideration , and I believe that this is the first step forward in trying to recognise that people have responsibilities outside of the council chamber . |
| 5 | BR could have come to us at the outset and said , ’ King 's Cross has to be the location for a whole series of railway reasons , but let us talk about how best to ensure that the building of the station has minimal impact on local people and their lives . ’ |
| 6 | Recognition was a blow , though by no means a fatal one , to the UNITA rebels , who have been fighting government soldiers since January , having lost to them at the election in September . |
| 7 | Three of these were his fellow truckers from the night Jim Miller had stumbled into them at the gas station . |
| 8 | After attempting to speak to his ex-girl friend on the telephone and finding she was out he decided to have another drink , and then started to think about taking some tablets which his GP had prescribed for him at the time when his girl friend had left him . |
| 9 | On the very Sunday that the new church opened we looked in vain for the empty seats in St Luke 's : it seemed that God had given to us at the mother church a new group of people who had either moved into the area or who were to be converted and we saw the truth of the saying : ‘ Give and it will be given to you , pressed down and running over . ’ |
| 10 | Losing two front teeth , even two false front teeth , at the age of fifty , even if only for a week , had distressed him : he had sat opposite her at the breakfast table with a napkin over his mouth , and she knew that it had taken some courage to go to the board meeting at all . |
| 11 | We warmed our hands as though a sudden chill had come upon us at the mention of his name . |
| 12 | So I 've looked at it at the end of day and thought well my God ! |
| 13 | No matter what they had said to her at the hospital , it had been her fault she had died . |
| 14 | After his death his wife Mary wrote that the idea of symbolising logic had occurred to him at the age of 17 ( Leibniz had had similar but less developed ideas as early as 1666 ) , but several subsequent writers ( see [ 96 , p. 235 ] ) have indicated that Boole 's work on the calculus of operations in the early 1840s must have at least influenced his approach if not actually initiated it . |
| 15 | Was n't it likely that the thing that had got into him at the seance was really from the planet Tellenor ? |
| 16 | After that , we drove to the Ming Tombs close by , and stopped to have an enormous picnic which they had packed for us at the Friendship Hotel . |
| 17 | From Jibuti my father crossed to Aden and then went to Cairo to confer with Sir Reginald Wingate , the High Commissioner , while we went to Berbera to stay with Geoffrey Archer , the Commissioner in British Somaliland ; he and his wife had stayed with us at the Legation for Zauditu 's coronation in February . |
| 18 | A year later to the day he had proposed to her at the same table . |
| 19 | Nobody had known about it at the time . |
| 20 | He had not mentioned it in all this week that Hotspur had spent with him at the abbey , had asked no questions but the most current politenesses about his stay and his journey , and had shown no interest at all in the ceremony from which he had come . |
| 21 | He had shown , or so it had seemed to her at the time , genuine concern for others . |
| 22 | It had seemed to her at the time that this was all she was to be allowed of Ace , and so it became the most precious thing in her life . |
| 23 | It was nearly as tall an order as Eva 's father had set before her at the beginning of her life . |
| 24 | This is not a book about the experience of watching them , a collection of weird scenes inside the cinema : ‘ We were chewing the fat , telling stories about peculiar things that had happened to us at the cinema , trying to top each other . |
| 25 | He had happened upon me at the crucial moment : I had little idea of who I was or what I was entitled to from life , let alone what it behoved me to contribute . |
| 26 | Others wrote about what Walter Machin 's books had meant to them at the time of their publication , and to these Viola wrote faintly magisterial replies of thanks and interest which usually also contained subtle plugs for the two books which were as yet unpublished . |
| 27 | But the level of activity is not constant so either the permanent staff have to deal with it at the expense of other work , which leads to chaos ; or , temporaries have to be employed , which again leads to chaos . |
| 28 | It seems to me that all of us in this chamber have at one time or another , wanted to actually spend money erm it comes programme of committees , I do n't think it 's behoved upon me at the moment to transgress on what programme committees are actually er but to predict exactly where they will want their expenditure to go but I do know is that there is a huge backlog of member generated aspirations in terms of the environmental improvements , traffic calming facilities , particulary which I suspect were actually generated mildly in excess of the figures which we have before us tonight which is why we clearly leave open that further bids against capital can be made in the course of the next three years , erm which will be assessed against the overall financial position of the council and I think the council much more than that . |