Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] [pron] at [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | William met him at university . ’ |
| 2 | With the assassination of the Archduke Ferdinand by a Serbian nationalist in Bosnia , Germany found itself at war with its trade competitors in the west , and at war with its nationalist rivals and its potential empire in the east . |
| 3 | But as the week wore on and Damian made no attempt to see her at night , spend time with her or try to kiss her , she realised he was seeing Domino in the dark , humid hours when Rachel sat alone at home , tortured by jealousy , consumed with it , imagining them together and burning with impotent rage . |
| 4 | It is always a pleasure to meet you at Link meetings and other events . |
| 5 | Some of the defenders of the domestic load , such as Dennis Bellamy ( chairman of the Yorkshire Board ) , occasionally quoted cost and load data to justify their views , but these were based on such a biased sample of observations that it was difficult for any serious enquirer to accept them at face value . |
| 6 | With a spreadsheet you can alter values , constants or the formulae relating them at will and the entire sheet will reflect these changes , instantly . |
| 7 | Joan Allen was 74 years old when her son asked her general practitioner to visit her at home . |
| 8 | That was why Simon Draper was appalled , horrified and dumbstruck when Richard Branson telephoned him at home one Sunday evening in March 1984 , gushing enthusiasm for another idea . |
| 9 | In a nearby village girls of the Mission to the Blind had been settled before the final evacuation ; they continued with their weaving , and a recent army photograph showed them at work at their looms , surrounded by admiring soldiers and villagers . |
| 10 | The kids get it at school . |
| 11 | We acted , sang , danced — hoping always for temperate weather , dreading the sudden heat waves which lost us audiences as surely as rain and snow kept them at home — burlesques with preposterous titles ( Very Little Hamlet , The Vicar of Wideawakefield ) , comedies , farces . |
| 12 | England battled hard to get back into contention throughout the second half , but the Scots kept them at arm 's length and ran out worthy winners . |
| 13 | Clearly the auction house feels that in the light of new revelations about the treasure 's origins , its manner of acquisition and details of falsified export licenses , any attempt to offer it at auction would be bound to result in failure and would not redound to the auction house 's credit . |
| 14 | Mandy did n't come to the meeting , Mrs. Maddison keeping her at home as a punishment for her disobedience in going into the swamp . |
| 15 | Virginia Bottomley , Minister for Health , has announced that some people on low incomes who also find it difficult to visit their local opticians will be able to get help from the NHS to pay for the optician to visit them at home . |
| 16 | Could it be that Sun Microsystems Inc president Scott McNealy 's voice is being heard this side of the Atlantic , after he reportedly told Novell Inc 's Ray Noorda to fire everyone at Unix System Labs except a handful of marketing guys and the engineers ? |
| 17 | In fact 12% developed it at puberty , 17% during pregnancy , 19% when they started taking the birth pill and 27% , at the onset of the menopause . |
| 18 | IBM SURPRISES ITSELF AT PROGRESS OF POWERPC … |
| 19 | When the headmaster telephoned the boy 's father , he was told by that unusually permissive parent that , if the teachers could not hold his son 's attention , it was better for the boy to educate himself at home . |
| 20 | The law puts them at risk from oncoming forwards and I can see a spate of potentially serious injuries . |
| 21 | By nightfall all the rifle companies had been over-run ; some sections , and platoons from these companies extricated themselves at nightfall . |
| 22 | Tom Fish held him at arm 's length over his head , spun him this way and that until the sky turned sickeningly above him . |
| 23 | Of course if Adam had invited his parents to make themselves at home at Wyvis Hall , use it as a hotel , while he was away , they would have lent him any amount , but that was the last thing Adam would have done . |
| 24 | He is working on the making of a crystal-wireless set ; he is one of the first men in Scotland to produce one at home . |
| 25 | The cold held it at bay despite the glow of the flames on his face . |
| 26 | Mr McQueen joined them at table , and gave Johnson the kind of local knowledge he loved — the economics , way of life , problems of such an existence . |
| 27 | Nigel started a kind of evening shift , that you was there with your kids during the day and then your husband got them at night and you come out and worked at nights , so it |
| 28 | Theda asked him at length . |
| 29 | Dell places itself at number three . |
| 30 | ‘ You can give me another place to meet her at night-time , a more private place , which she can choose and no one will be able to find out . ’ |