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 | I feel stupid if I cry at an emotional film or book |
| 27 | Remembering the agony of years gone by , teaching in Sunday School , I grasped at a straw and replied ‘ Sorry no transport ! ’ |
| 28 | I winced at a memory . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | I therefore set about devising a better mathematical treatment , which I described at an informal seminar in Oxford at the end of November 1973 . |