Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] at the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Like a host in some cheerful tavern , he told them to tether their horses and ushered them in , asking them to sit at the table and wait while he finished his business in his own secret chamber . |
| 2 | The truth is that as painters and as a man and a woman , they were engaged , during these years , in the same adventure which turned out to be more fatal than either of them realised at the time . |
| 3 | It fulfilled none of my expectations and seemed to be merely trying to make me laugh at the fact that it had left me standing there grasping at nothing . |
| 4 | The professor 's secretary , who is wearing fluffy aquamarine slippers , asks me to wait at the end of a blank corridor . |
| 5 | Much of the writing about television fiction seems to me to remain at the level of elementary genres , grounded in the dominance of the semantic aspect , with relatively little analytic or historical attention to the ‘ verbal ’ ( style , mise-en-scene ) or the ‘ syntactic ’ ( narrative structure ) : there is very little close textual analysis of television fiction , and there is no scholarly history of the development of television form to compare with the histories which have emerged of early cinema . |
| 6 | We must let them know at the station , or there will be an awful accident . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ One of them was so desperate to stop me overtaking at the ford he lost his footing and fell backwards into the water . ’ |
| 8 | The Wellenkuppe summit , a white notch against a blue sky , was only five minutes away up an easy snow slope , but almost everyone stopped at the top of the rock pitch for a second breakfast . |
| 9 | Yes there were criticism but it 's not appropriate for me to comment at the moment . |
| 10 | ‘ He 's asked me to dine at the villa he 's looking after for a few months , just to oblige a couple of ex-pats . |
| 11 | And the answer 'll be no , cos nothing has at the moment . |
| 12 | Nothing moved at the crossroads , or nothing that threatened a soldier 's life . |
| 13 | Perhaps you could let me know at the meeting next Wednesday . |
| 14 | Well if you let me know at the meeting then I 'll . . |
| 15 | If you let me know at the meeting and . |
| 16 | Well let me know at the meeting . |
| 17 | Oh right , so let me know at the end of the week . |
| 18 | Something made me linger at the bottom of the grand staircase , near the bust of Unamuno , pretending to read some notices about student societies . |
| 19 | All the questions I asked at the beginning were concerned with the Old testament passage and started ‘ Why ? ’ . |
| 20 | The question I pose is the one that I asked at the beginning of my speech : do those in government and opposition have the courage to set about creating a new beginning to bring about peace , political stability , and an end to the tensions between Ireland and Britain , and can they bring the beginnings of hope for my constituents and the people in the north of Ireland ? |
| 21 | Might , perhaps ; there 's just something ; that 's why I asked at the meeting , but I 'd have to see the letter first , partly to see what 's in it , partly just to see it . ’ |
| 22 | I asked at the meeting of the city board and I asked on more than one occasion , and did n't get a proper answer , what the labour group intended to do with the three point two million pounds that will build up in reserve say for the next three years . |
| 23 | I gazed at the devastation from behind a stone horsetrough , lying flat on my face as another explosion sent lumps of metal and cobblestones clattering on to the roofs of the farm buildings . |
| 24 | I gazed at the picture of the crocodile pool and all I could think of to say was , did the gallery owner give you a discount because you 're a friend of Robert 's ? |
| 25 | ‘ I 'm very optimistic that we can get the goals , but we do n't need to chase the game right from the start and leave ourselves exposed at the back . |
| 26 | The fact that the position is more complicated , however , should be obvious if we remind ourselves of the point I made at the beginning of Chapter 2 : how variable teachers are . |
| 27 | However , that leaves the galleries open to pressure , when they come to the Minister and make points such as that which I made at the beginning of my speech — saying , for instance , that last year the Tate gallery could buy only one work of art . |
| 28 | If , bearing in mind the theory of society and superego development so far advanced in this book , we now turn our attention back to the analysis of modern culture outlined in the article from which I quoted so extensively in the chapter before last , we can see that the following remarks , also from that article , take on a much greater significance in the light of the point which I made at the conclusion of the last regarding the lack of a culturally determined latency period among the Australian aborigines : |
| 29 | And , on top of that , all the new friends I made at the grammar lived out West , in Greenford or Ealing . |
| 30 | As I announced at the end of the trial , I am immediately doing two things . |