Example sentences of "[noun pl] [to-vb] [pers pn] [adv] at " in BNC.

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1 Erm there have been attempts to brighten them up at various times .
2 She 's one of a ‘ dirty dozen ’ of girls who carry knives and CS gas in their handbags to battle it out at soccer riots .
3 In the Fens , mothers abandoned their children ‘ swimming in their beds , till good people , adventuring their lives , went up to the breast in the waters to fetch them out at the windows ’ .
4 I said that I thought it would be alright and made arrangements to meet him again at the church on the following Saturday afternoon to discuss details .
5 When both trunks had been hauled on to the far bank they used the ropes to bind them together at various points along their length .
6 And when she tried several times to pin him down at the office , invariably , as if he were telepathically aware of her intentions , he was elsewhere .
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