Example sentences of "[verb] [pers pn] [det] at [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was frightened by a prophecy that his downfall would be similarly brought about by one of his own children , so he ate them all at birth — HERA , POSEIDON , Hestia , DEMETER and HADES . |
| 2 | I mean obviously I 'd like to sell it all at price levels but there 's get away with that . |
| 3 | I 'll make you some at home got some |
| 4 | You 've got me all at sea indeed . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ May see you all at luncheon . |
| 6 | I 'm gon na call her that at school . |
| 7 | And as I say , Bill is doing it all at cost , so , you know , he 's not making anything out of it , himself . |
| 8 | But , taking it all at face value , Mr Wilson appears as ignorant as he mistakenly supposes Summerhill 's pupils to be . |
| 9 | so he did n't eat it all at dinner time . |
| 10 | Do n't spend a fortune on entertaining this evening , do it all at home . |
| 11 | [ Philip Leapor ] informs me she was always fond of reading every thing that came in her way , as soon as she was capable of it ; and that when she and learnt to write tolerably , which , as he remembers , was at about ten or eleven Years old , She would often be scribbling , and sometimes in Rhyme ; which her Mother was at first pleas 'd with : But finding this Humour increase upon her as she grew up , when she thought her capable of more profitable Employment , she endeavour 'd to break her of it ; and that he likewise , having no Taste for Poetry , and not imagining it could ever be any Advantage to her , join 'd in the same Design : But finding it impossible to alter her natural Inclination , he had of late desisted , and left her more at Liberty |
| 12 | Reference to Freemantle 's letter shows that although Philip and Anne Leapor both attempted to break their daughter of the habit of writing verses , toward the end of the poet 's life some accommodation was reached : ‘ But finding it impossible to alter her natural Inclination , [ her father ] had of late desisted and left her more at Liberty ’ [ vol. 2 , p. xxx ] . |