Example sentences of "[vb pp] [to-vb] [pers pn] at " in BNC.
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| 1 | If Rohan needed to have a private word with her , why had n't he arranged to see her at the house instead ? |
| 2 | ‘ It reminds me of my dear father one day at Sandwich , ’ she was saying , ‘ when we were picnicking on the sands and we had arranged to meet him at the nineteenth hole . |
| 3 | He 'd arranged to meet her at in the West End , he told me , but had been at a loss for a suitable landmark as a meeting place . |
| 4 | I had arranged to meet them at Salima 's house , but when I got there she told me that the other two were at Ruksana 's place . |
| 5 | She had n't really expected to see him at the funeral , though she had looked forward to the possibility with unseemly excitement considering the solemnity of the occasion . |
| 6 | And he had probably expected to see her at the shop this morning , while she had been waiting impatiently at his office . |
| 7 | Sun was expected to display it at PC Expo this summer but Snoopy has never been seen except behind closed doors . |
| 8 | After he had come to collect her at the flat they joined a party of junior officers and debutantes at the Haymarket Theatre to see Pygmalion by the fashionable playwright George Bernard Shaw . |
| 9 | My husband had come to collect us at the airport and we came back here in a minicar . |
| 10 | The difficulty over these cars had arisen because the Brush Co. had demanded an appropriate charge if they were expected to store them at their works in Loughborough . |
| 11 | I can not remember whether he has arranged to visit me at Twickenham . |
| 12 | Even Barcelona would be pushed to meet it at present . |
| 13 | We felt pretty helpless in the train , as we did not know whether any arrangements had been made to meet us at Canton , but at the station we were welcomed by a Min. of Education official , together with a teacher-interpreter from Canton university , who surprised us with his urbane manner , excellent English , and his knowledge that David Owen had just been made the substantive Foreign Secretary to replace Anthony Crossland ( and that , incidentally , is about the last news we have heard about affairs in the U.K. ! ) . |
| 14 | I could make it a fairy-tale instead , if I wanted to , Anyway , It 's the capital of the empire ; a courtier starts a liaison with one of the princesses ; the demands she and the impersonate on his time get to be too much , so he secretly has an android made to impersonate him at the endless court rituals and boring receptions ; nobody notices . |
| 15 | Decided to play him at his own game . |
| 16 | However , there was concern for the two survivors aboard the lifeboat , who were severely seasick , and an attempt was made to land them at St Abbs . |
| 17 | ‘ Ah , Mildred , I see you 've decided to rejoin us at last . |
| 18 | In spite of our scepticism , to our relief the first boat in that area to be investigated proved to match the photograph and we slunk off into the night , doused our lights , and prepared to follow her at a safe distance . |
| 19 | As she went she remembered that Angela had promised to meet her at the bus-stop . |
| 20 | All the contractors have agreed to do it at cost . |
| 21 | Muscles yes , you 've got to er if you 're going to build power into muscles you 've got to , you 've got to give the load to those particular muscles and you 've got to do it at the right load . |
| 22 | You 've got to put it at chest height |
| 23 | Lot number eighteen is the next to offer that 's the bronze model the bronze model , I have fifty pounds offered to start me at fifty , fifty five , sixty pounds , at sixty five sixty five pounds any more ? |
| 24 | We 've got to keep her at least until she 's sixteen . |
| 25 | You 've got to start it at forty , the max you know , the last date , is n't it . |
| 26 | Before he had finished he had become manager 's clerk at the Newcastle branch and the bank had offered to sponsor him at university . |
| 27 | After demonstrations outside his home and threats to his life , Tshisekedi refused the position , denying that he had agreed to take it at a secret meeting with the President . |
| 28 | It is not a difficult object , though telescopes are needed to show it at all well . |
| 29 | For reasons linked to the physical strength needed to operate them at the beginning , spinning mules were operated by men . |
| 30 | I had always intended to do it at some stage . ’ |