Example sentences of "[to-vb] [pron] [noun] at " in BNC.
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| 1 | Recently , I tried to cancel my appearance at a benefit as my pianist was ill . |
| 2 | ‘ Well , I felt dreadful about it , and one morning I went to see my godfather at the Admiralty and begged him to get me into the Navy . |
| 3 | I would turn down an Oscar to see my boy at a baseball game or my girl at a song recital . |
| 4 | er and of course I 've known Walter for years but I do n't know his wife , I 've never met his wife and of course not being able to get out into the street now , I should get out for about two years after I lost my husband and then I got this er awful pain nobody knows unless they have it er this arthritis in my knees , you see , and erm and then I found that it was too much for me to er otherwise I used to walk up to the post box road and I used to count the steps , three hundred and something steps there and three hundred and something back , you see , and to the front door , you see , but I , I ca n't do it now but I have with help and I went out last year with er Mrs and er twice we went to Dulwich which I enjoyed and so did she and the last time we went to and er we had our lunch and we went to see my cousins at West Suffolk and and , and then came home again , you see , and that 's the only time I went out last year and usually I used to go to for a day and I am hoping that if I , I am hoping , well you can only hope , that I might perhaps go so out one Sunday , once , just once in the , you see , because er , th that 's when when you 're old you 've got to keep , you 've got to hope for something |
| 5 | The limit to which the RCM was prepared to go in this matter was revealed in March 1939 , when Grunpeter was told that his salary was to be held to £2 a week , a sum ‘ which will make it impossible to continue my work at the camp as resident minister ’ . |
| 6 | But this purported resolution of the paradox , as Fried concedes , only demonstrates the compatibility of uninhibited freedom to enter contracts with respect for autonomy ; it ‘ does not show that I am morally obligated to perform my promise at a later time if to do so proves inconvenient or costly ’ . |
| 7 | They 've started to restore my beauty at last she signed with relief . |
| 8 | I 'm sure that there are hundreds of dealers getting ready to write me letters at this point to tell me that a satisfied customer is more important than a sale . |
| 9 | I 've promised to meet my cousin at that Inn on the Point at half past one . |
| 10 | It 's time to try my hand at the settled life . |
| 11 | The devils urged that she should kill herself and be damned with them in Hell , and it was evidently to contain her attempts at suicide that she was ‘ bound and kept with strength day and night ’ ; even then she ‘ rived the skin on her body against her heart with her nails most spitefully ’ . |
| 12 | ‘ To meet her couturier at the Hilton . |
| 13 | Racing cyclists generally like to meet their fans at the beginning of a stage , but do n't ask for autographs today . |
| 14 | It is much better to evaluate information needs and establish information flows in advance of the decision-making process than to discover their omission at a later stage . |
| 15 | ‘ She ought to try her hand at decorating china some time . ’ |
| 16 | Usually they have few opportunities to check that their instructions are being pursued and almost none to supervise their execution at first hand . |
| 17 | Among the painted sculptures from the first decade of his activity as an abstract artist are ‘ Midday ’ ( 1960 , MOMA , New York ) , ) , ‘ Prairie ’ ( 1967 , NGA , Washington ) and ‘ Early One Morning ’ ( 1962 ) which the Tate Gallery was persuaded to loan only after Caro had agreed to supervise its restoration at the end of the exhibition . |
| 18 | In the Lancashire Ladies League last year 's winners Liverpool have beaten Marple 5-0 to establish their position at the top . |
| 19 | True , it was but a small village , but the fact was maintained that the railway would have to establish their station at that point . |
| 20 | From here , while Louis took personal command of operations against strongholds held by Pippin II 's supporters in the Auvergne and Quercy , Charles and Judith moved north to establish their base at Poitiers . |
| 21 | DEPORTIVO Coruna underlined their Spanish championship aspirations by thrashing Real Sociedad 5-1 yesterday to consolidate their position at the top of the league . |
| 22 | Then comes the second part of the double whammy — after say two years BA would announce that it was withdrawing from Belfast City Airport in order to consolidate their operations at Belfast International whose superior facilities interface more readily with their corporate image ( or similar doublespeak ) . |
| 23 | Drawing on an earlier record of municipal activity and labour representation , it was able to consolidate its position at a time of hope for a new future by an active fusion of Labour Party , trade union and cooperative effort . |
| 24 | Peter was able to take his test a year earlier than most because the law allows disabled people to pass their test at 16 . |
| 25 | CHELSEA are set to secure their future at Stamford Bridge by buying the company who own the ground . |
| 26 | The sea was a mass of foam with so many bodies stirring it up , and some of the men ventured further out to try their skills at swimming . |
| 27 | Following pests and diseases is a section that will interest those who would like to try their hands at raising their own new plants , and perhaps even achieving fame in the process ! |
| 28 | The club raised over £100.00 for the Orsett Hospital Fund and provided the opportunity for many visitors to the fair to try their hands at using a metal detector for the first time . |
| 29 | These pictures by early-20th-century artist , Anna Guthrie , daughter of an Orkney minister , and those by the other Anna – Mrs. Hossack – gave us pleasure as well as profit ; and to Eddie Penham and John Easton , both artists themselves , the opportunity to try their hands at picture-selling . |
| 30 | Westerners , who expect work to be as light as their skin , are vastly outnumbered by job-seekers from places like Iran , the Philippines and China , ready to try their hand at anything . |