Example sentences of "[noun] have [vb pp] [pers pn] at " in BNC.
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| 1 | ICI has developed it at Billingham , and it will eliminate the need to dump waste from the manufacture of perspex into the River Tees and the North sea — one year ahead of schedule , too . |
| 2 | Future Image maintains that the extension to a wider base has won them at least half a dozen valuable new clients , and he thinks its the way forward for all agencies . |
| 3 | She plans to launch her own designer clothes label but that is one area where her younger sister has pipped her at the post . |
| 4 | As for their laying the birch on my pocket , I compute that my support of Lewis and Brzeska has cost me at the lowest estimate about £20 per year , from one source alone since that regrettable occurrence , since I dared to discern a great sculptor and a great painter in the midst of England 's artistic desolaton . |
| 5 | Sometimes genuine letters are offered without the vital signature , some rabid autograph hunter having removed it at some period . |
| 6 | 7 ‘ RAILWAYS : If Napoleon had had them at his disposition , he would have been invincible . |
| 7 | Meredith had spotted him at an end of term production of You Never Can Tell at drama school . |
| 8 | This was pronounced with a kind of funereal satisfaction , and for a moment Jackson could imagine the remorseless gossip that someone else 's tragedy had afforded her at the time . |
| 9 | Beryl 's words had impressed him at the time because they summed up his own vague feeling that what had happened and what was happening might be consequences of the old man 's cynical , even malicious contrivings . |
| 10 | If the words had chilled her at first hearing it was more because of the cold light they cast on the woman 's most intimate life than for any reference to her own innocence . |
| 11 | The War Councils of the gangs had chosen it at random . |
| 12 | I do n't think your words have reassured them at all . |
| 13 | CARL Fogarty has done it at last ! |
| 14 | He admits he might have been a little too young for the job , ‘ but after Yves had done it at Dior , everyone thought a young designer was the thing and of course there was n't that much to do , a collection of 60 or 70 dresses , twice a year . ’ |
| 15 | Indeed , they had reckoned German strength in the area to be at most one corps although British Intelligence had estimated it at three and a half corps and even this , in the event , proved an underestimate . |
| 16 | She was accustomed to exercise for , each morning for the past two weeks , Sharpe had saddled her at three o'clock , then ridden her south to watch the dawn break over the Sambre valley , but this morning , hearing the crackle of musketry to the east , he had ridden the mare much further than usual . |
| 17 | Dan Sandford had met us at the railway station in Addis Ababa and had brought with him Omar , our prospective headman , to clear our baggage through customs and deal with the other formalities . |
| 18 | I turned to find that a girl had joined me at the bar . |
| 19 | She had given Nina all her cash , and the girl had thrown it at Clive . |
| 20 | Now imagine that instead of sitting behind his desk your boss had met you at the door and ushered you to a seat , then pulled up a chair next to you . |
| 21 | Two whole sizes bigger than his father Northern Dancer , Nijinsky has matched him at stud . |
| 22 | ‘ What I really dread is Mark ringing me in the morning in a rage because the postman has woken him at 7.30am to deliver a huge box of clothes for me . |
| 23 | Surely if that tense moment had affected him at all he would not sound so cool and distant now as he reached for Chalon 's reins . |
| 24 | Highly ambitious , but not a high achiever , Modesty and a lack of confidence have kept her at the Post Office ‘ instead of earning twice as much as Lord Hanson ’ . |
| 25 | Swindon Town have done it at last , and won a league match . |
| 26 | In all probability thoughtless pegging has cost him at least £1,000 , possibly £5,000 . |
| 27 | The authorities claimed that the bombs were the work of a " terrorist " student group , but the National Union of Students claimed that police paramilitaries had planted them at Santo Domingo University . |
| 28 | The adrenalin of going to a Court had kept it at bay so far but now I could feel the walls closing in again . |
| 29 | A few places further down the dale had got it at once , and then it began to advance further up towards us . |
| 30 | Brian Lara , playing only his second Test after 24 one-dayers , did not last long after Wessels had reprieved him at slip first ball , gloving Bosch down the leg side for David Richardson to snatch a magnificent one-handed catch . |