Example sentences of "[pron] [vb -s] [pers pn] at " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Although someone supervises me at all times , I handle all my cases myself . |
| 2 | Therapist Julia Blackburn 's heart sinks when someone visits her at The Maidenhead Natural Therapy Clinic and says , ‘ I 've tried a grapefruit diet , a pineapple diet , a very low-calorie diet , and now I 've come to see whether hypnotherapy might work . ’ |
| 3 | I mean we 've still got a barren at the back , somebody kicks you at the back on that barren and er in the skeleton that 's exactly like the barren in a monkey 's tail |
| 4 | Some guys are n't going to be able to walk for a week — they 've got tattered feet , but er nobody begrudges it , nobody begrudges it at all . |
| 5 | This was Il Giasone ( 1649 ) which shows him at the height of his powers in the melodious aria with violin imitations ( e.g. Jason 's ‘ Delizie contente ’ , Act I , SC.2 ) , in drama ( e.g. Medea 's conjuration , Act I , sc . |
| 6 | The Derry boss was in no doubt as to the task which awaits him at Tolka Park . |
| 7 | In order for us to asses where you should make a start you need to answer the questionnaire overleaf , unless you are already on a really good exercise programme , which gives you at least three half-hour sessions of vigorous exercise per week . |
| 8 | Remember that you are always in control , and if there is anything which makes you at all anxious , all you have to do is open your eyes and it is all over . |
| 9 | She wants me at the birth . |
| 10 | all the same , that she wants me at home , though she does n't like me , and she could never admit that she might need me … " |
| 11 | ‘ She came to pick up some papers she sent to Dr Puddephat , and she needs them at once . |
| 12 | It is Gina who meets you at La Sabina and arranges your cab to your holiday home or your hire car . |
| 13 | Every day she meets him at the well , and every day he repeats the same request , till at last she yields . |
| 14 | My mother 's in despair — says she ca n't look her MP in the face when she meets him at Church . |
| 15 | The supplier sends copies of new books ( or stock revision collections ) to the librarian , who examines them at leisure and decides whether to retain ( probably ordering extra copies ) or return . |
| 16 | ‘ She lays it at our door , I am sure , and yet it is not our fault she is in difficulties . ’ |
| 17 | Therefore he is asking for trouble , and he receives it suddenly and in full measure , above the groundswell of heckling , at the hands of a divinity student who reminds him at the top of his voice about Fedka , a dangerous escaped convict now roaming ‘ our town ’ and originally a serf of Stepan 's whom he sold into military service to pay a gambling debt : |
| 18 | Ominously , the highest estimate comes from the bankers ' own technical adviser , who puts it at £8.1bn . |
| 19 | ‘ I do n't imagine she likes it at all , ’ said Mr Aycliffe 's level voice from the library doorway . |
| 20 | She does it at that desk and I 'll think she 's writing letters . ’ |
| 21 | I know she thinks says things you know she embarrasses me at times |
| 22 | SOME families are more given to kissing than others ; one sees them at railway stations kissing a whole carriage-full of friends as they prepare to say goodbye . |
| 23 | Pumice deposits , in fact , are usually much better preserved and more informative when one sees them at points some way from the vent . |
| 24 | Estimates of the expected share of British exports of manufactures in world trade are necessarily crude but a conservative one puts it at at just over 11.0 per cent in 1975 as against an actual 9 percent [ Batchelor et al. , 1980 ; Panic , 1975 ] . |
| 25 | Er , but councillor other remark about the labour party moving towards the conservatives is of course a very fair one , but then surely nothing surprises us at the moment about the labour party . |
| 26 | ‘ No , ’ said Aline , suddenly serious , ‘ it is only that the step from perfectly ordinary things into the miraculous seems to me so small , almost accidental , that I wonder why it astonishes you at all , or why you trouble to reason about it . |
| 27 | He points it at me . |
| 28 | Although he may not agree with what I have said , and what I am about to say , he should at least extend to all of us the courtesy of sitting quietly in his seat , especially if he joins us at such a late time . |
| 29 | I 'll go and phone him , put ten P in the phone and he rings me at the phone box . |
| 30 | I do n't mind how many times he rings you at the phone box . |