Example sentences of "[verb] [pers pn] at [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Instead of inviting my patients to see me at 10-minute intervals — generally I offer them each 10 minutes of my time — I shall invite the lot to attend at 9 o'clock in the morning . |
| 2 | Several older NCT children have started school this year so we sha n't be seeing them at Open Houses now … |
| 3 | The highest type of firework last year if it was specified was the sparkler remarkably enough and we would make this point very seriously that parents tend to give children sm very small children sparklers and they must remember tha that these things are fireworks they are dangerous they do get red hot er they must supervise them at all times when they give them sparklers cos they may wave them around they may se set somebody else 's clothing on fire with them they may get the sparks in their eyes if they get too close to them er and one particular danger of course is that they they may get hold of en the hot end when the firework has finally extinguished and they think it 's all finished with . |
| 4 | Now you know the rules , set a good example to other drivers by using them at all times ; who knows , they may even copy your driving style and do it right too ! |
| 5 | You had to wear them at certain times . |
| 6 | She made appointments to meet me at different places : restaurants , art galleries . |
| 7 | ‘ Although someone supervises me at all times , I handle all my cases myself . |
| 8 | But I still maintain to encourage them at twelve years of age to be ab oh I think it 's all wrong . |
| 9 | If your next-door neighbours insist on blasting you at all hours with Wagner 's Gottedammerung " , be thankful : it might have been Heavy Metal . |
| 10 | He CALLED twice at the station — only to be sent away with a flea in his ear — and LEFT his name and company address so detectives knew where to find him at all times . |
| 11 | She phoned him at all hours of the day and night , ranting sometimes , crying others . |
| 12 | A year in Milan , Italy 's great fashion centre , had sounded close to perfect — at least , that was how the woman who 'd interviewed her at International Models had made it sound . |
| 13 | ‘ We want to see proper education and we have said we will put a penny on income tax to provide it at all levels from the age of three upwards . ’ |
| 14 | Lot a hundred and eleven eighty eight note player piano , there it is , thank you twenty for it , twenty pounds twenty twenty twenty pounds twenty pounds , no one want it at twenty pounds twenty pounds is bid , thank you , twenty two twenty two now , any more ? |
| 15 | and they 've got it in but it wants it at different times does n't it ? |
| 16 | Anne wants it at 30 degrees , Pat at 60 degrees . |
| 17 | Since a rise in interest rates can cause quite a severe fall in the price of bonds , banks could make a considerable capital loss if they were forced to sell them at such times . |
| 18 | Once or twice she re-issued her invitation to the Carrows to visit them at Four Winds , but it seemed that there were always perfectly valid reasons why they could not accept . |
| 19 | His family have attended him at all times with considerable devotion . ’ |
| 20 | There were times when Eliot seemed uncertain or ill at ease , suddenly very much the " resident alien " — one has the impression , always , of a man invaded by inexplicable moods and anxieties which he did his best to conceal — and Hayward 's own dominating and very English manner afforded him at such times a certain amount of confidence . |
| 21 | ‘ I am dead in law ’ — but of the girl he denied that he had ‘ attempted to vitiate her at Nine years old ’ ; for ‘ upon the word of a dying man , both her Eyes did see , and her Hands did act in all that was done ’ . |
| 22 | I had never met the head of governors , Dr Arnold Barton , though I had seen him at several functions , a thin , tall , stern-faced , lantern-jawed streak of a man who rarely seemed to smile . |
| 23 | He hefted the pistol towards the window , laid it on the sill , cocked it , put a percussion cap beneath the hammer , directed it at some sepoys trotting below , and pulled the trigger , confident that a sepoy would throw up his arms and sink to the ground . |
| 24 | We do see the problems we 've seen it at both ends the goalkeepers have when people chase a lost cause like Rozario 's just done there . |
| 25 | It is the unique experience of rail travellers on the Gotthard to glimpse the same , unmistakable baroque-domed village church three times in a few minutes as the train passes it at different levels above and below . |
| 26 | The system can understand spoken utterances by simultaneously analysing them at different levels ( including syntax and semantics ) , and then combining the results . |
| 27 | Traders were allowed to store unsold items and the Trade Ministry offered to buy them at reasonable prices . |
| 28 | The plant alkaloid ryanodine opens the channels at low ( nanomolar ) concentrations but closes them at higher doses ( micromolar ) . |
| 29 | The normal posture hides these bright colours ; the display reveals them at close quarters . |
| 30 | she said she she 's losing the profit at selling them at ten pounds . |