Example sentences of "[to-vb] [prep] [pers pn] at " in BNC.
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| 1 | As she turned to wait for me at the end of the path , I felt I was looking at her for the first time : her face paler than her arms , a blonde shadow on her upper lip , no lipstick . |
| 2 | ‘ Here , ’ she says thickly , handing me a joint while she rolls the ice cube round in her mouth and tries to breathe through it at the same time . |
| 3 | Sandy then asked me if I 'd like to carry for him at Walton Heath for the Cup . |
| 4 | I shall only be able to weep for him at night , after Enid has fallen asleep . |
| 5 | If she was going to quarrel about it at all she would have to do it seriously . |
| 6 | But he never made to go after you at all . |
| 7 | She promises to come for him at noon . |
| 8 | There had been no problem in having Eve brought up as a Catholic , since the Westwards had never wanted to know about her at all , and did n't care what faith she was raised in just as long as they never had to hear her name . |
| 9 | What the experts want to know about you at your antenatal clinic Nancy Stewart |
| 10 | ‘ I have to write about it at school on Friday , and I do n't understand it . ’ |
| 11 | Can staff arrange for others to work for them at times of crisis ? |
| 12 | Family size is shrinking as mothers no longer need large numbers of children to work either down the mines or in the factories ( the machine would take anybody to work for it at first ) or to ensure that a few would survive ; high infant mortality rates are now becoming a thing of the past . |
| 13 | But it is you I want to stand behind me at my coronation three days from now . |
| 14 | clients are , are tapped into it , and we should be able to communicate with them at the press of a button . |
| 15 | Er , now if you 're going to use that , you know , so if somebody phones me and says er , you know , Ricky I like to meet with you at er , on , on the thirtieth , I would just say I 'm sorry , I ca n't meet you that day . |
| 16 | When , after a hazardous journey through thickening fog , using only the statutory semi-blacked-out lights , he asked her if she would care to dine with him at a roadhouse not far from their destination , she accepted with alacrity . |
| 17 | Briefly she toyed with the idea of perhaps ringing Lubor Ondrus , of perhaps inviting him to dine with her at her hotel , and then asking him to approach his employer on her behalf . |
| 18 | It is not a sign of " malice " to refuse an apology , or to repeat the allegations prior to trial , or to persist in them at the trial : this is no more than steadfastness in the cause ( although if the allegations turn out to be false , such conduct may increase the damages . ) |
| 19 | Well they could address their letters to myself Councillor David Poole or Councillor Stuart Argyle to the Council House erm the suggestion you know er their the thoughts the thoughts on this what er they could er erm help us in our campaign and also about the leaf stem as well if they want to write to me at the Council House suggesting and I mean proper places to where it should go because that 's really up to County Council but er at least if I had some suggestions we can pass them over to the County Council where where it could go . |
| 20 | And naturally his only means of getting in touch would be to write to her at the one address he knew : Elise 's cottage . |
| 21 | I ought to write to her at some point . |
| 22 | He knew at once of a house to let for a whole year , the owners being abroad and failing to let it before they left last month and seeing my condition he took pity and had the caretaker prevailed upon to come to me at his premises . |
| 23 | I was concentrating too hard to feel elated or amazed that I had actually trained this wild creature to come to me at will . |
| 24 | Her mother had died and her father summoned her to come to him at once . |
| 25 | Sure enough , St Augustine saved him from shipwreck on the way back , he agreed to the translation , and ordered Ælfstan , abbot of St Augustine 's , to come to him at Whitsuntide . |
| 26 | These ledgers can be easily subdivided , enabling several clerks to work on them at the same time and it is also easier to withdraw old accounts and insert new ones in their place . |
| 27 | Talking to Gavin Selerie in 1983 McGrath detailed some of the influences that came to work on him at that time . |
| 28 | If you are to sit opposite me at table and walk through my house , then I prefer you to look your best , which I know will be very good indeed . ’ |
| 29 | Cup in hand , she was about to sit opposite him at the small kitchen table , but the unwelcoming look in his deep blue eyes changed her mind , and she wandered aimlessly through to the living-room . |
| 30 | You were allowed up to three visitors at a time and had to sit opposite them at individual tables . |