Example sentences of "[conj] [verb] [pers pn] at [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A3 v Framwellgate Moor & Pity Me at Edinburgh Park ; |
| 2 | send tapes in , or leave them at reception . |
| 3 | I have 200m shares , nothing would please me more than to see them at £1 each . ’ |
| 4 | To this question , the common answer is that he neither quoted the forged additions nor produced them at Rome , because he knew they were forgeries , and knew also that the forgery would be detected at once by a competent critic . |
| 5 | Kendall will come under increased pressure if he loses this fourth round replay and he is not prepared to keep faith with the players that failed him at Bramall Lane . |
| 6 | It must also be remembered that death usually took place in the home , not only because nineteenth century parents preferred it , but also because , before the development of antisepsis in practical nursing in the last quarter of the century , to send a patient to hospital was much more likely to prove fatal than keeping him at home . |
| 7 | Not surprisingly , it costs less for New York and New Jersey to send their rubbish halfway across America than to tip it at home . |
| 8 | ‘ It 's the time of death that concerns me at present , sir , ’ he said . |
| 9 | It is a magic one , though only modestly so : ‘ He that blows it at need shall set fear in the hearts of his enemies and joy in the hearts of his friends , and they shall hear him and come to him . ’ |
| 10 | They were impressed by her intelligent appreciation of political matters and took to consulting her on political problems that confronted them at work . |
| 11 | Surely this is the moment when the strong west should be able to offer a hand of assistance to those countries , rather than holding them at arm 's length while it completes its own internal workings . |
| 12 | Then the reader 's fingernail will be able to produce the scent of clematis that wafts in through my window , the foie gras that awaits me at lunch , the liquid inspiration that gets me through the final paragraph . |
| 13 | Frank Grimwood showed no sign of moving , or even of lifting his eyes from his plate , except to flick them at Kennedy who was standing by the door . |
| 14 | Europa Europa , on the other hand , holds Solomon 's predicament up for our detached scrutiny , rather than involving us at gut level . |
| 15 | Each of these master gangs had ‘ satellites ’ , smaller groups that supported them at need and stayed in the general area . |
| 16 | Harry takes the matchstick out of his mouth and points it at Howard . |
| 17 | Having seen and heard him at Buxton , I find it hard to believe claims that he did not solo the South Face of Lhotse : claims , in any case , which Cesen has countered with an explanation . |
| 18 | Eva also insisted on Dad improving the service : she got him to consult esoteric library books early in the morning before work and asked him at breakfast , in a voice which must once have enquired of Charlie if he 'd done his technical-drawing homework , ‘ And what did you learn this morning ? ’ |
| 19 | Where a book might originally sell at £15 , Smith might buy it for £1.50 and sell it at £5.50 — a profit was turned , and the public benefited . |
| 20 | He picked a newly constructed swatch of samples up from the desk in front of him and chucked it at Antinou , who caught the flopping thing one-handed and proceeded to fondle it familiarly . |
| 21 | Gail ripped up a brochure and chucked it at Tjolle . |
| 22 | If you open it up , if you do get it open , and advertise it at Boddingtons a pound a pint , get them straight to come in . |
| 23 | ‘ And seeing it at night … ’ |
| 24 | Something which , if I lived to be two hundred years old then went and announced it at St Paul 's Cross , would rock the very throne of England and scandalise the courts of Europe ! |
| 25 | Edwards acquired the famous Maffeo Pinelli collection of early printed books from Venice and sold it at auction in 1789 and 1790 . |
| 26 | When she realizes that by controlling these cries , and producing them at will rather than automatically , she can influence the behaviour of her parents , she has progressed to the directive function . |
| 27 | The Athenians came out and fought them at Tanagra ( 457 ) ; the Spartans first won but then Athens retrieved this defeat under Myronides at Oinophyta two months later . |
| 28 | She was at court every time with me , and she came and visited me at Holloway . |
| 29 | Especially now that his grandfather is no longer as robust as he once was , and needs him at Arrancay . ’ |
| 30 | My father used to go and buy them at Lowestoft . |