Example sentences of "have [verb] [pron] at a [noun] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | Your child knows , or thinks , she has put you at a disadvantage by her highly cunning tactics : you are made vulnerable by her highly visible ( indeed , audible ) tantrums and disobedience in public places , whether in supermarkets , on public transport , at the park , during a church service or a visit to the doctor . |
| 2 | You know , cos I 'd got it at a P P C as well , for national conference . |
| 3 | Last year and this year they could have upgraded it at a cost much greater than the initial expenditure and much less efficiently . |
| 4 | We regret having to disturb you at a time when you are busy , but the matter is important . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ Your daddy should n't have left you at a bus stop in an area where a girl would hear language like that , ’ Rory told her , sternly . |
| 6 | One glimmer of hope though , tonight police say that someone who knows the couple claims to have seen them at a garden centre in herefordshire . |
| 7 | I 'm sorry to have to ask you at a time like this — ’ |
| 8 | Dalgliesh , who had heard him at a police concert , never ceased to be surprised that so narrow a chest and so slight a frame could produce such a powerful organ-toned bass . |
| 9 | This had dropped him at a garage in Cromcruach and had then mysteriously vanished before he could offer his thanks . |
| 10 | He had pressed her to marry him , though he was considerably older than she was , and she had accepted him at a time of great emotional exhaustion . |
| 11 | Sally-Anne had met him at a party ; he had long been settled in England , and he had been impressed and amused by her fiery conversation and her obvious intelligence . |
| 12 | ‘ I 've met him at a couple of PFA functions and when it was my testimonial he sent some things down to be raffled . |
| 13 | I 've seen one at a display of falconry trying to ‘ creep up ’ on a pigeon . |
| 14 | And she 'd go on the demonstrations in it too , I 've seen her at a rally in a park dragging that beaded hem through the mud . |
| 15 | But I had bought mine at a time when I 'd luckily accumulated some nice big fees , and she is just what I need , in every way . |
| 16 | " You will read this book just as though you had bought it at a bookstall and you were reading it in the ordinary way as a whole . " |
| 17 | The millionaire proudly handed the superintendent the cage and , while winding up the clockwork mechanism , described how he had bought it at a country auction in Warwickshire . |
| 18 | Now tell me what what you 've got one at a time , starting at this end . |
| 19 | She alleged that the doctor had told her at a seminar that she desired Lozano . |
| 20 | Meredith had spotted him at an end of term production of You Never Can Tell at drama school . |
| 21 | The Bosnian Serb parliament rejected the Vance-Owen peace plan even though its leader , Radovan Karadjic , had signed it at a peace conference in Athens . |
| 22 | ‘ Yet you must have help to free you from this condition and , frankly , I have found myself at a loss . |