Example sentences of "[pron] [vb -s] [prep] [pers pn] at " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Nobody knows about it at all , ’ said the parson . |
| 2 | Anyway I wo n't say any more because I 'll other people will eventually go but Hugh Berger is a gentleman who owns it or who lives in it at this time |
| 3 | After they saw the pig — a pot-bellied Vietnamese — on Central News South last night — Environmental Health officers warned the pig 's owner that she 's breaking the law by the way she looks after it at home . |
| 4 | So we sort of switched all around now , so she eats with us at half past six stroke seven , goes up for a bath at seven thirty , eight o'clock and she 's in bed by nine , then she , she 's usually asleep by half past ten , but eh , it seems to have cured the problem we had with her , wanting , wanting me all the time , after she 's gone to bed . |
| 5 | The fairy Grandmarina appears , and gives Alicia a magic fishbone that will bring her whatever she wishes for ‘ provided she wishes for it at the right time ’ . |
| 6 | I was never going to be a replacement for his wife , just a diversion , and I hope that , if he thinks of me at all , it is with the same shiver of half-remembered pleasure with which I think of him . |
| 7 | Then he gallops towards it at terrific speed . |
| 8 | He responds to us all in different ways , to his sister , Amanda , he 's always smiled at her and we say that he looks at her at her in his cute way . ’ |
| 9 | He calls for me at nine , |
| 10 | ( Feb 20-Mar 20 ) You should read the forecast for Sagittarius , so much of it applies to you at the moment . |
| 11 | An ancient animal with 5 per cent of an eye might indeed have used it for something other than sight , but it seems to me at least as likely that it used it for 5 per cent vision . |
| 12 | The existence of economies of scale in family life ( bulk buying , spreading fixed costs , etc. ) means that , although two can not live as cheaply as one ( it seems to us at least ) , cohabitation means that a given per capita standard can be maintained for two at less than double the expenditure for one . |
| 13 | He comes over ours at Christmas and he does my head in cos he keeps on kicking me at the dinner table ! |
| 14 | He comes into close contact with both a teacher and other children of his own age and many of his future feelings about himself will result from what happens to him at this time . |
| 15 | Whatever happens to them at school , children must not be bored . |