Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] [pers pn] at " in BNC.
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| 1 | His proud mum met him at Shannon Airport with the news that he has been called up by the Lions as a replacement for winger Ian Hunter . |
| 2 | But , alas , one 's head must be permitted to rule , and so I will say only this : a little house where I may be safe , with an income to enable me at least to enjoy the comforts of life , if not its luxuries . |
| 3 | I have today won a concession from the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry , in as much as he is going to give a delegation from the Southampton and district licensed victuallers an opportunity to see him at the Department to talk over some of these matters . |
| 4 | Erm so in in broad terms the master plan is is unchanged in concept but we think improved in detail the is the other thing at each end erm represents on the left hand side er , what is currently Honey Hill I believe the name may be changed in due course erm and those behind me here are the houses on the Fern Hill side and then , although some of you will have difficulty seeing it at the moment , at the bottom there are detailed drawings showing the internal arrangement of the houses and flats and , and detailed drawings of the elevations with dimensions , so one can have a have a bit of a feel for the the sort of space standards that we 've aimed at , but there are in fact , furniture plans shown on the drawings . |
| 5 | I 'm not naive , I know others will make more be back with more bids because he 's such a top -class goal scorer , ’ says the manager , who has just signed a contract keeping him at Hillsborough for the same time as Hirst . |
| 6 | You see , I did n't know her for long and it was a privilege to meet her at all . |
| 7 | We thought all was well until the Battlebus passed us at full speed in the opposite direction . |
| 8 | But as the week wore on and Damian made no attempt to see her at night , spend time with her or try to kiss her , she realised he was seeing Domino in the dark , humid hours when Rachel sat alone at home , tortured by jealousy , consumed with it , imagining them together and burning with impotent rage . |
| 9 | It was a great pleasure to meet you at the Conference in Lisbon and to talk about your proposal for an introduction to CALL . |
| 10 | It is always a pleasure to meet you at Link meetings and other events . |
| 11 | It was a pleasure to meet you at the Scottish Taxi Federation exhibition at Riccarton last week . |
| 12 | Some of the defenders of the domestic load , such as Dennis Bellamy ( chairman of the Yorkshire Board ) , occasionally quoted cost and load data to justify their views , but these were based on such a biased sample of observations that it was difficult for any serious enquirer to accept them at face value . |
| 13 | Despite a turnover of plants in the 1960s and early 1970s , employment was maintained until the mid-1970s when a CDP study estimated it at about 4800 of whom 50% were women . |
| 14 | Joan Allen was 74 years old when her son asked her general practitioner to visit her at home . |
| 15 | The Russian poet mistakes him at first for a brigand of the woods , a political conspirator , or a charlatan trading in elixirs and arsenic . |
| 16 | The examination papers written in Victoria 's large , even script were considered adequate ; her interview was unexceptional , although the examiners at Girton College recognised her at once as she had been universally described by all who knew her : an extremely pleasant girl of excellent character . |
| 17 | The wind woke her at six , hustling the leaves on the trees , still green in November . |
| 18 | ‘ The extra few days off helped Gough , but it was n't my intention to play him at Aberdeen if the midweek game had been on . ’ |
| 19 | In a nearby village girls of the Mission to the Blind had been settled before the final evacuation ; they continued with their weaving , and a recent army photograph showed them at work at their looms , surrounded by admiring soldiers and villagers . |
| 20 | It is recorded somewhat ruefully that , after years of struggle , when the Veterinarian had won its fight to get the course lengthened , students who had previously been apprenticed for three or four years to a practitioner claimed they at least ought to be able to leave the College after 12 months , and not have to stay the same period — two years — as the non-apprenticed . |
| 21 | Not that the organs of perception apprehended it at the time . |
| 22 | Mistakenly thinking it would do no harm to put her at her ease — she was a plain woman with the faintest smell of spirits on her breath even at ten o'clock in the morning — he had mentioned the interesting photographs hung on the stairway leading to the stalls . |
| 23 | All depended on the navy and sometimes on the air force to land them at least somewhere near their target beaches . |
| 24 | Ron does n't remember this tall , slightly gawky figure approaching him at all . |
| 25 | Tikva , a 26-year-old Israeli , has impressed on trial at the City Ground with the Belgian club pricing him at £500,000 . |
| 26 | There 's no reasson to keep it at all . |
| 27 | The second exception was established in Tuberville v. Stamp where it was held that liability extended to a fire originating in a field as much as to one beginning in a house , but if the defendant kindles it at a proper time and place and the violence of the wind carry it to his neighbour 's land , that is fit to be given in evidence . |
| 28 | ‘ HA HA HA HA HA HA , ’ the little girl went in the next picture-square , and ‘ BONK read the bubble as the typewriter hit her at the end of the joke . |
| 29 | Depart London Heathrow for Pisa , where your hire car awaits you at the airport . |
| 30 | But when you do achieve it , you will find that you can then use aerobic walking as part of an ongoing maintenance programme to keep you at your goal weight . |