Example sentences of "[noun pl] [verb] [pers pn] at " in BNC.
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| 1 | One of the lads asked me at a dance how I had earned my living before I had got married . |
| 2 | I was still more surprised when some of their parents arrived in motor cars to see them at the weekend |
| 3 | Boycs asked me at Headingley if I had a big car . |
| 4 | Words failed me at this last find … but not so my companions ! |
| 5 | Jeannie — ’ They kissed again and then he was gone , running after the uplanders to catch them at Camserney mill . |
| 6 | With a spreadsheet you can alter values , constants or the formulae relating them at will and the entire sheet will reflect these changes , instantly . |
| 7 | He said , ‘ Yes , I wanted you lads to catch them at it and arrest them ’ . ’ |
| 8 | Another couple of lads joined me at Middlesbrough station and off we went to be gentlemen 's gentlemen . |
| 9 | Fido 's owners should be aware of this and take steps to play him at his own game . |
| 10 | The kids get it at school . |
| 11 | His words surprised her at first , then anger took over — an anger so intense that she was prepared to walk out of her marriage and do irreparable damage to the Royal Family . |
| 12 | When flushed , chestnut wings and dangling legs separate it at once from Quail ( p. 105 ) and young Partridges ( p. 103 ) . |
| 13 | Most potential clients visit them at Potton and attend one of the free seminars , held three times a week . |
| 14 | England battled hard to get back into contention throughout the second half , but the Scots kept them at arm 's length and ran out worthy winners . |
| 15 | In the 1470s the closest parallel is to be found in the north midlands , where Hastings ' possession of the key duchy of Lancaster offices put him at the head of the royal connection in the region . |
| 16 | In the 1470s the closest parallel is to be found in the north midlands , where Hastings ' possession of the key duchy of Lancaster offices put him at the head of the royal connection in the region . |
| 17 | Wood ladders greeted us at the most difficult places across the stream . |
| 18 | Of course she feels strongly that as 65 per cent of women in Britain are actually larger than size 14 , clothing manufacturers ignore them at their peril . |
| 19 | Up to a certain size , that is to say the size attained by the rats at a few weeks old , she caught and ate them , and , with a sure instinct for authority , brought in their tails to lay them at the feet of Martha . |
| 20 | The umpires check it at the end of every over . |
| 21 | ‘ There must have been other women , ’ Jenna began mournfully , but his lips silenced her at once and he kissed her possessively until she began to tremble all over again . |
| 22 | The night sweats frightened him at first . |
| 23 | Several emotions battered her at once then , so how she managed to find a voice that was as cool as his she would never know . |
| 24 | Some girls I knew had arranged for their two penfriends to meet me at the Gare du Nord and , somehow , we recognised one another . |
| 25 | According to Eurotunnel it is £7bn ; the contractors put it at £7.5bn . |
| 26 | The T. S. Eliot Lectures show him at his best — relaxed , immensely well read and decisive . |
| 27 | Allitt fed her at 12.30pm and her parents collected her at 4pm . |
| 28 | If , however , mutations affect both juvenile and adult survival equally , selection against their early effects keeps them at low frequency , and prevents the collapse of late survival . |
| 29 | When trials come we must trust what he has revealed about himself in the Bible rather than what our senses tell us at that particular point in time . |
| 30 | ‘ It was a brutal and cowardly attack on wretched creatures whose offences placed them at the bottom of the prison heap , ’ he said . |