Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] at a " in BNC.
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1 | I could not see my mother sine she had got herself well hidden behind my father so I rushed to the house , through the open french windows , saw my wife sideways on to me gazing at a blank wall and screamed , " See what 's happening — our baby to be plastered over half of some alien landscape ! |
2 | They invited them to sit at a table and were joined by an unusually tall , thin man who was extraordinarily blonde for his age which was thirty to thirtyfive . |
3 | Yeah , if I sell at a time when there 's still a recession on and you see somebody has to get my they had a visit perhaps that was somebody that actually bought a house , not she not |
4 | I mean this is something that we could maybe be of help to in fact maybe something that I could be of help to them on because I actually do lectures on public relations how to assess what I mean at a very basic level you want to communicate with press how do you do it but before you do it why do you want to do it . |
5 | A police graduate I met at a seminar on ‘ Research into the Police ’ , which we had both attended in a private capacity and without force blessing or financial assistance , later wrote to me : |
6 | It was also at about this time that a friend of Charlotte ( whom I met at a party ) commented on how much better Charlotte was looking — considering the circumstances . |
7 | Someone I met at a party ! |
8 | A girl I met at a party on Saturday night . ’ |
9 | When I write biographies , I sit at a large kitchen table with a wide surface on which books and papers can be laid , essential for checking quotations or references . |
10 | Gordon and I sit at a table as the old snowys sup their milk stouts and get ready to cross the road to the theatre , where several stars of television are about to perform the fabulous musical My Fair Lady . |
11 | It 's a piece of pipe that I got at a plumbing supply place ; I bought a twelve foot piece of pipe and had it cut into pieces a little over an inch long . |
12 | This morning I presided at a meeting of the Cabinet and had meetings with ministerial colleagues and others . |
13 | This morning I presided at a meeting of the Cabinet and had meetings with ministerial colleagues and others . |
14 | This morning I presided at a meeting of the Cabinet and had meetings with ministerial colleagues and others . |
15 | This morning I presided at a meeting of the Cabinet and had meetings with ministerial colleagues and others . |
16 | This morning I presided at a meeting of the Cabinet and had meetings with ministerial colleagues . |
17 | This morning I presided at a meeting of the Cabinet and had meetings with ministerial colleagues and others . |
18 | This morning I presided at a meeting of the Cabinet and had meetings with ministerial colleagues and others . |
19 | This morning I presided at a meeting of the Cabinet and had meetings with ministerial colleagues and others . |
20 | This morning I presided at a meeting of the Cabinet and had meetings with ministerial colleagues . |
21 | This morning I presided at a meeting of the Cabinet and had meetings with ministerial colleagues and others . |
22 | This morning I presided at a meeting of the Cabinet and had meetings with ministerial colleagues and others . |
23 | This morning I presided at a meeting of the Cabinet and had meetings with ministerial colleagues and others . |
24 | This morning I presided at a meeting of the Cabinet and had meetings with ministerial colleagues and others . |
25 | This morning I presided at a meeting of the Cabinet and had meetings with ministerial colleagues and others . |
26 | Remembering the agony of years gone by , teaching in Sunday School , I grasped at a straw and replied ‘ Sorry no transport ! ’ |
27 | I winced at a memory . |
28 | I peered at a few of them , identifying Filmer and Daffodil 's Laurentide Ice as a light grey colt with brittle-looking bones , the Lorrimores ' Voting Right as an unremarkable bay , and the Youngs ' Sparrowgrass as a bright chestnut with a white star and sock . |
29 | Driving home one night at about 11 o'clock , through a fairly rough area , I stopped at a zebra crossing . |
30 | I stopped at a stationer 's and ordered two reams of Devon Valley Thin , two black ribbons to fit Toby 's portable , and a box of the best carbon papers . |