Example sentences of "[be] [verb] [to-vb] [pers pn] at " in BNC.
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| 1 | We felt pretty helpless in the train , as we did not know whether any arrangements had been made to meet us at Canton , but at the station we were welcomed by a Min. of Education official , together with a teacher-interpreter from Canton university , who surprised us with his urbane manner , excellent English , and his knowledge that David Owen had just been made the substantive Foreign Secretary to replace Anthony Crossland ( and that , incidentally , is about the last news we have heard about affairs in the U.K. ! ) . |
| 2 | The cool thing would be , during the three-day end of year exams , when you 're allowed to do them at home , to be seen drinking the Students ’ Union or in a pub around here , being terribly laid back while everyone else was hunched over their desks in their rooms . ’ |
| 3 | It is not a difficult object , though telescopes are needed to show it at all well . |
| 4 | The children are going to have them at home anyway , so if the teachers deny themselves this extra resource , and deny themselves the experience which the children can bring , I think they 're cutting themselves off from a tremendous source of encouragement and motivation . |
| 5 | ‘ Because the twins are bound to wake us at the crack of dawn . ’ |
| 6 | Many of those who approached the walk with a hint of condescension have been known to regret it at about this stage . |
| 7 | Many new cars are now capable of using unleaded petrol and most modern cars can be altered to take it at very little expense with no loss of performance . |
| 8 | Even Barcelona would be pushed to meet it at present . |
| 9 | ‘ I 'm going to see her at lunch time . ’ |
| 10 | Well , so I 'm going to meet him at Temple Meads and we 're going to set off to the Marquis family abode . |
| 11 | Well I hope so anyway because I 'm not going to play erm international football at left back , I 'm going to play it at centre half , so hopefully erm Terry scouts will be watching me . |
| 12 | The divine Miss Grimsilk has already arrived in Hochhauser — at her own request , unmet and unheralded — and will be coming to see me at one . |
| 13 | I 'd been hoping my daughter would be brought to see me at Holloway and was frightened of her turning up and finding me not there . |
| 14 | They have never been accepted as an equal ‘ nation ’ within Yugoslavia ; they have difficulty in obtaining recognition for their language ( except in Kosovo , where however there is now a threat that in future the official language will be Serbocroatian , and that all Albanian children will be forced to learn it at school ) ; and they consider that Serbs , in particular , regard them as inferiors and potential enemies . |
| 15 | Many are offered in garden centres and shops , loose or prepacked , from February onwards , but care must be taken to plant them at the right time or thy may fail . |
| 16 | Mr Bush 's men are trying to establish the administration 's authority : they want to be able to decide freely where the money goes and in what form ; and they want to be allowed to shift it at will from one country , and one programme , to another . |
| 17 | an electro cardiograph , it 's a tracing of the electrical il impulses from the heart given off by the heart and this chap came in he 'd never had one before and he was nervous anyway , so I 'm trying to put him at his ease and I , I put , you have to put like a rubber band round their arms and legs and attach erm electrodes to them , you do n't feel anything , you 're only measuring the electrical impulses given off by the heart |
| 18 | A spiral perm can cost over £100 but do n't be tempted to try it at home to save money . |
| 19 | Those holding tickets for the pulled September show are asked to exchange them at the point of purchase . |
| 20 | Hardest hit are those on lowest incomes , as employers are allowed to pay them at a specially designed low rate . |
| 21 | Once we introduce Christian values at one point we are forced to introduce them at all points . |
| 22 | The difficulty over these cars had arisen because the Brush Co. had demanded an appropriate charge if they were expected to store them at their works in Loughborough . |
| 23 | The shipwrights of Exeter , for example , bound themselves in 1766 not to work for masters who were seeking to employ them at " less wages than have been from time immemorially paid to journeymen shipwrights " , to " deprive " them of " several of their ancient rights and privileges " and to impose longer hours than had been " usual and customary " . |
| 24 | As vesting day , 1 April 1948 , approached , the shape of the organisations which were to take over the industry , and the men who were going to lead them at national and regional level were known . |
| 25 | He said they 'd call at eleven if they were going to call him at all . |
| 26 | You were going to sell them at one and tuppence each . |
| 27 | ‘ I thought you were going to tell me at least that it was for my own good . |
| 28 | Pointy-Beard simply said that Sunil wanted to see me when he 'd finished eating and we were going to meet him at Shazam 's and did I know it . |
| 29 | There was nobody else available to take his place in the Chinese dance in Aurora 's Wedding , and John cajoled his way into being allowed to dance it at three performances . |
| 30 | 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 . |