Example sentences of "[noun sg] to [pers pn] at " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It was a big deal to me at the time , ’ Maria snapped , her tolerance of his perpetual self-absorption vanished along with her brilliant mood . |
| 2 | Get up at two , I do n't think got much mention to them at all from what I was |
| 3 | ‘ Take my word for it , I 'd be no good to you at G.W. Fashions ! ’ |
| 4 | As far as I can see , this road 's no good to us at all . |
| 5 | The legatine visitation would provide Offa with an opportunity to acquaint the pope with his plans and the thinking behind them , but there can be no question about the opposition to them at Canterbury . |
| 6 | Bev never showed any emotion to me at all . ’ |
| 7 | Hotel-keeping 's double Dutch to me at the moment — but I catch on fast , Michael . |
| 8 | so I actually felt that although that presentation was very good , it was almost like a blind presentation because there was no benefit to him at the end of it because he , he did n't have , you had n't got those finishing point |
| 9 | He said that he thought that the wife entered into the charge of her own free will but that he would probably not have mentioned the question of undue influence to her at the time she executed the charge . |
| 10 | His date of birth is not known , but the first reference to him at work is 1567–8 , and he may therefore have been born around 1540 . |
| 11 | I was grateful for the Foreign Secretary 's friendly reference to me at the Conservative party conference , and his acceptance of my expertise on one subject — even though it was only the cinema . |
| 12 | There 's no plot to it at all , it 's it 's just so farfetched ! |
| 13 | ‘ Charles was an incredible help to me at the beginning of my career , ’ said Bernard with professional earnestness . |
| 14 | Perhaps it was a great help to me at this time that the RAF introduced a new trade into the Service — Metal Rigger — and to the horror of the old " Chippie Rigger " who fashioned the ancient wooden aircraft , and claimed " we used to have men of steel and kites of wood … sadly now the process has been reversed " . |
| 15 | The risk of the husband dealing with the property in the period between the court order and completion of the conveyance to the wife or lodgment of the transfer to her at HM Land Registry has already been mentioned ( see above p10 ) and practitioners will no doubt have taken protective steps accordingly . |
| 16 | The Minister is aware that those who work for 16 hours or less do not have the right to itemised pay statements unless they have worked for five years and that those who work less than eight hours have no right to them at all . |
| 17 | I was going to say , sub-contracting to us at , and I do n't know whether we 're all thinking the same way , at one stage sub-contracting very much meant , to me anyhow , that er , buying out work which you could n't do your , from your own resources . |
| 18 | The Fat Controller addressed me over the sounds of her orgasm , paying no attention to them at all . |
| 19 | She did n't attach any importance to it at the time and it was only when she heard we were interested in anyone who had seen Garland between Saturday and Wednesday that she thought it worth mentioning . ’ |
| 20 | He wanted to ask what she had to be tired about , to remind her that this dinner-party was all her idea , and there was no real point to it at all , since they had asked nobody whom they needed to impress . |
| 21 | Had he had the same nightmare at any other time , it might have had no particular meaning to him at all . |
| 22 | It was scarcely credible that this should happen at so late a stage and I asked the department to get the minute to me at once . |
| 23 | Thank the Lord for his faithfulness to them at this time . |
| 24 | They passed two landings , Gordon following her with majestic tread , but faster than one might expect , since although he had lost time in hanging up his raincoat in the hall , he reached the door first , and opened it without any kind of announcement , and Edward was standing , with his back to them at first , thinner and smaller than she remembered , but then she always made the mistake when she had n't seen him for a bit — he turned round , protesting , and it was Edward . |
| 25 | The man sitting with his back to her at the table looked round . |
| 26 | I 'm really sorry about all this happening to you at once like this . |
| 27 | ‘ You 're a sex object to me at this moment , ’ said Surkov . |
| 28 | ‘ And , anyway , he 's been absolutely no trouble to me at all . |
| 29 | ‘ If you 're going to be of any use to me at all , the work has to start now . ’ |
| 30 | And our comment to them at that particular stage was , ‘ Well , if that 's the case that 's the case . |