Example sentences of "[verb] [pers pn] at [pron] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Leeds were annoying me at their sudden inability to keep the ball on the pitch , either kicking it off , or playing stupid passes up front ( down the middle ) straight to their keeper/defenders . |
| 2 | His estranged wife Danielle and their three children spurned him at his sick bed when he announced plans to wed the former Bond girl . |
| 3 | Style director Hamish Bowles , a lifelong fan , visited her at her magnificent home , Templeton , on Long Island and spent a day talking to and photographing her in some her favourite clothes ( see page 220 ) : ‘ It 's a ravishing and evocative home , C.Z. is a scintillating hostess and brings a contemporary touch to a house that is almost Edwardian in its management and battalions of staff . ’ |
| 4 | When Callahan and I visited him at his large house on Sunset Beach , it was like walking around a graveyard : every board was a headstone with memories buried beneath it . |
| 5 | It had surrounded her at her progressive private school , it surrounded her still at her fashionable newish university , but she herself lacked economic grasp and was uncomfortably aware of having lost , of late , a few arguments with outsiders , of having been thrown back on arguments about personalities . |
| 6 | Looking back to her first encounter with Balbinder a year ago , when she had visited him at his previous school , she said that she had been shocked . |
| 7 | Nobody recognised him at his true value . |
| 8 | Firstly the electric alarm clock had fused sometime during the night , failing to rouse him at his usual eight am . |
| 9 | ‘ No , ’ he said , a soft laugh escaping him at her obvious embarrassment . |
| 10 | He nodded with patronising approval , and she had to do battle with an urge to pick up the nearest heavy object and hurl it at his infuriating head . |
| 11 | The subject is similar — the Edwardian English abroad — but this shows them at their bigoted best . |
| 12 | In the ceremony I smeared the metal , rubber and plastic of the new device with earwax , snot , blood , urine , belly-button fluff and toenail cheese , christened it by firing the empty sling at a wingless wasp crawling on the face of the Factory , and also fired it at my bared foot , raising a bruise . |
| 13 | As Birmingham abolitionists expressed it at their celebratory public breakfast in the Town Hall on 2 August 1838 , with slaves ‘ relying on their own peaceful and persevering efforts for the removal of every vestige of oppression ’ and with ‘ the continued vigilant aid of the British people , under the blessing of Divine Providence ’ they foresaw ‘ the progressive development of the glorious results of free institutions and the reconstruction on purer and better principles of the now disorganised elements of colonial society ’ . |
| 14 | Do n't miss it at our special price of £59.85 . |
| 15 | As despair grew and self respect diminished we would take them at their unspoken word and go and buy a bottle of anaesthetic and uncork the genie who would play merry hell with the last vestige of hope of recovery . |
| 16 | Parliament has introduced taxation of this ‘ perk ’ but upon a gradually increasing scale — still short of the true value of the use of the car — no doubt because to have introduced it at its full value would have been seen as an unfair and unacceptable increase in the burden of taxation in one year on those who enjoyed the ‘ perk ’ and of course the future of the British motor industry would be taken into account . |
| 17 | I met him at my wee cousin 's wedding — he was the Best Man — he says to me would you like to go out for a bite to eat ? |
| 18 | I recently saw them at my local garden centre . |
| 19 | ‘ He was the original tall , dark , handsome boy at school , ’ said a woman who knew him at his senior school . |
| 20 | In the taxi , while he was dropping her at her small house in Fulham , she made an effort to regain some inch of the indispensable contact she had squandered , but there seemed no way of doing it . |
| 21 | Before turning to the decline of the ‘ Hitler myth ’ , however , we need to sketch it at its absolute zenith , in the years when Blitzkrieg victories brought almost the whole of Europe under Hitler 's command . |
| 22 | Because , she thought , she had never been there with anyone who was interested in taking it at anything other than face value . |
| 23 | Benjamin 's eyes narrowed as if , for the first time , he was judging me at my real worth . |
| 24 | So they can e-mail me at my normal address . |
| 25 | The Prince did n't even wait for an answer but turned to a small table beside him , slopped two goblets full of wine , rose and thrust them at his unwanted guests . |
| 26 | The only problem there , though , since she would have to let Personnel at Vasey 's know where she had moved to , was that her employer would have no trouble in finding her at her new address either ! |
| 27 | He quoted a passage from the Psalms in which God speaks to the Messiah and sets him at his right hand until all enemies have been overcome . |
| 28 | If she could have picked up a rock she would have hurled it at his rotten head . |
| 29 | After the controversy over last week 's leak I would not have announced our move and I did not reveal it at our annual meeting . |
| 30 | The man in question , one of those footmanly types , Twit ( first class ) — pencil thin spray-on hair and pained costive expression — was , as they would have put it at his public school , ‘ being ragged ’ by rough children from the village . |