Example sentences of "[verb] [to-vb] [pron] at [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When screening began we agreed to discontinue it at the end of the first year if there were a number of traumatised families . |
| 2 | ‘ I expected to see you at the ball last night , Sharpe ! ’ |
| 3 | If Rohan needed to have a private word with her , why had n't he arranged to see her at the house instead ? |
| 4 | She was close enough to the dead man to arrange to meet him at an isolated spot without arousing suspicions . |
| 5 | ‘ It reminds me of my dear father one day at Sandwich , ’ she was saying , ‘ when we were picnicking on the sands and we had arranged to meet him at the nineteenth hole . |
| 6 | The defendant then made an agreement with the plaintiffs in which ‘ in consideration that the plaintiffs , at the request of the defendant , would deliver to the defendant ’ the cargo of coal , the defendant promised to unload it at a stated rate . |
| 7 | His ex-wife Margaret claims he tried to kill her at the family home in Brockhampton . |
| 8 | She had n't really expected to see him at the funeral , though she had looked forward to the possibility with unseemly excitement considering the solemnity of the occasion . |
| 9 | And he had probably expected to see her at the shop this morning , while she had been waiting impatiently at his office . |
| 10 | You may need to adjust it at the centre on long pieces since the ends tend to pull rather tightly to start with . |
| 11 | In Wales also Gloucester was expected to set himself at the head of existing officials . |
| 12 | In Wales also Gloucester was expected to set himself at the head of existing officials . |
| 13 | If we want to buy anything at the moment we have to borrow the money . |
| 14 | If it did not exist , would anyone trouble to invent it at a time when , from the Atlantic to the Urals , socialism in all its manifestations is losing the argument to liberal capitalism ? |
| 15 | Daddy has to leave it at the garage . |
| 16 | The elder of the two policemen smiled at Sarah but she dropped her eyes and tried to busy herself at the sink . |
| 17 | It was awful , he spoke so awkwardly , he always has to say things in a roundabout way , he always has to justify himself at the same time . |
| 18 | ‘ Somebody tried to phone her at the flat . |
| 19 | Don ? t expect to understand everything at a first reading . |
| 20 | But I 've got a lot of time for Tom Clarke , he 's a nice man and it would be absolutely disgusting if anyone tried to dump him at the moment . ’ |
| 21 | Three-year-old Daniel Hampton was crushed when the 9ft-high and 8ft-wide panel toppled on to him as he tried to climb it at a recreation ground . |
| 22 | Margaret Jones claims her husband tried to murder her at the family home in Brockhampton , by pumping exhaust fumes from the garage into her bedroom . |
| 23 | Jimmy Richards , 31 , suffocated after the weights landed on his face and neck when he tried to lift them at a Bradford health club . |
| 24 | I realized I would need to convince them at the first opportunity that I was primarily a practical policeman and not an academic ; and I also noted that while the college was keen to list the academic qualifications of those on the course , the participants quickly justified Lewis 's assertions by playing them down to emphasize their history of praxis and practical mastery . |
| 25 | I 'm the female lead , the hero has to get me at the end . |
| 26 | McFarlane , who in his more sober Methodist way felt much the same , tried to explain it at the hearings . |
| 27 | After he had come to collect her at the flat they joined a party of junior officers and debutantes at the Haymarket Theatre to see Pygmalion by the fashionable playwright George Bernard Shaw . |
| 28 | My husband had come to collect us at the airport and we came back here in a minicar . |
| 29 | The tigress was undoubtedly familiar with every foot of the ground , and not having had an opportunity of killing me at the rocks — and her chance of bagging me at the first hairpin bend having been spoilt by the kakar — she was probably now making her way through the dense undergrowth to try to intercept me at the second bend . |
| 30 | Now he wants to test himself at the top : ‘ I 'm as ambitious as the next man . |