Example sentences of "[noun pl] [to-vb] [pers pn] at [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was still more surprised when some of their parents arrived in motor cars to see them at the weekend |
| 2 | Up to a certain size , that is to say the size attained by the rats at a few weeks old , she caught and ate them , and , with a sure instinct for authority , brought in their tails to lay them at the feet of Martha . |
| 3 | Some girls I knew had arranged for their two penfriends to meet me at the Gare du Nord and , somehow , we recognised one another . |
| 4 | The fact that the Prime Minister of Great Britain had twice flown to Germany to intercede with him , and on the third occasion had hurried across Europe with the heads of the French and Italian Governments to meet him at the shortest possible notice , constituted a personal triumph for Hitler . |
| 5 | Nor was hegemony an inevitable or universal phenomenon , and conscious efforts to combat it at the ideological level were a necessary part of the socialist project . |
| 6 | Several months before , he had been almost sleek , thanks to fourteen-mile walks and his wife 's efforts to police him at the table . |
| 7 | He has always been fanatically into body culture , punishing his muscles to keep them at the peak of definition and tone . |
| 8 | The latest phase obliges vehicles delivering a wide range of food products to keep them at a temperature of no more than 8C . |
| 9 | The man at the top leaves go once you 've got it well resting on the ladder and he runs down the stairs to meet you at the bottom by which time you 've got to the bottom rung , he comes takes one side of the wardrobe , you take the other and that 's all there is to it . |
| 10 | Robbie could scarcely believe this was the same man who was at such pains to keep her at a safe distance , until she reflected that in Fen 's eyes Miss Taylor would present no threat to his reserve . |
| 11 | Meanwhile SunSelect continues to be skittish on any questions about WABI 's list price , packaging , availability or anything else substantive , ostensibly because of the gala rollout it has planned for May 5 at the 500-seat Great American Music Hall in San Francisco , having ditched plans to hold it at the giant Paramount Theater in Oakland , California . |
| 12 | Cecil has not won the 2,000 Guineas since Wollow scored in 1976 , but Pursuit of Love is a genuine contender and it will take a convincing performance from either Forest Tiger or Dr Devious in today 's Craven Stakes to displace him at the head of Ladbrokes ' market — and other firms could well follow suit . |
| 13 | But Hendry had quickly noticed that security was being beefed up , with police mingling with crowds at the Rothmans Grand Prix in Reading and the UK Championship in Preston after threats to shoot him at the table . |
| 14 | Leighton 's error in allowing Didier Deschamps to beat him at the near post and present France with an advantage they did not deserve was crucial to the outcome of the match . |
| 15 | Classmates in Dymock voted for the three 11 year olds to represent them at the Telegraph ceremony . |
| 16 | Anyhow , we prefer our horses to like us at the end of it . ’ |
| 17 | Liam wondered why there were such long faces to greet him at the shop . |
| 18 | The next day Mr Foggerty told the four boys to meet him at the Town baths after school . |
| 19 | One of the difficulties of proceeding with the single currency , particularly if a small number of member states within the Community were to proceed on their own , is that it would become increasingly difficult for others to join them at a later stage . |
| 20 | And Taylor said : ‘ At last , our young players now have the facilities to put us at the top of the world game . ’ |