Example sentences of "[pers pn] [to-vb] at [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 31 | The Contraalmirante had invited her to dine at the C-in-C 's residence . |
| 32 | Particularly when Fergie — to the astonishment and great displeasure of Buckingham Palace staff — arranged for him to dine at the Queen 's official London residence with the Iraqi oil minister . |
| 33 | In any piece of fiction there must be room for the reader — room for him to jump at a suggestion , to insert himself into a story , to respond to hints and clues : to be told what is offered to him is to encourage him to read passively and so to give him less than he deserves . |
| 34 | it was too late to try and stop the marriage now , and it certainly had n't occurred to him to try at the time . |
| 35 | Cissie had also been entertaining secret hopes that Beth just might change her mind about sending her to work at the flower shop . |
| 36 | Success in the Caucasian war and the friendship between Bariatinskii and the tsar restored him to favour at the centre and gave him the chance of putting his ideas into practice . |
| 37 | I had told him to look at a video of the race and he would see that it was through my efforts that we had won the bronze . |
| 38 | A chance visit to Blackwardine caused him to look at the map for features of interest . |
| 39 | They 've asked him to look at the case because it makes a mockery of justice . |
| 40 | In this instance it is very important for him to look at the monitor while talking and try to pretend that the interviewer is in the room with him . |
| 41 | He could hardly expect her to queue at a bus stop . |
| 42 | It 's not like him to grumble at a bitch . |
| 43 | Despite pleas by senior police officers and the Crown Prosecution Service to remand Hagans in custody , the bench granted him bail , ordering him to stay at the Ryecroft Bail Hostel in Gloucester . |
| 44 | Her twice-weekly parliamentary Question Times , where she would be thrown a few soft-balls by her own side , enabled her to shine at the dispatch box . |
| 45 | But the quick-thinking cabbie , who picked up the woman from a pub in Exeter , Devon , alerted a cashier when the hijacker ordered him to stop at a motorway service station for cigarettes . |
| 46 | However his teachers recognised his exceptional qualities and he was given junior teaching posts which enabled him to register at the University of Pennsylvania , where he obtained his Master 's degree and began to work towards a PhD , specialising in philosophy . |
| 47 | There was no reason for him to feel at a disadvantage . |
| 48 | ‘ As I was blind , it was arranged for me to stay at the organiser 's house . |
| 49 | The aircraft flies comparatively slowly , at about 700 km/hr , but its big wings allow it to cruise at a height of more than 21 000 m — nearly double that of a transatlantic airliner . |
| 50 | I swing round slowly , slowly , and slowly level it to aim at the spider , slowly push it forward against the pull of the concertina pipe behind . |
| 51 | The latter is imagined to be a snake-like movement that translates the chain through the tube and allows it to escape at the tube ends . |
| 52 | You were flashing it to look at the display in the window . ’ |
| 53 | The plain fact is , if a PC does what you want it to do at a speed you 're happy with , then its performance is perfectly acceptable . |
| 54 | One possibility was to force it to land at an army base remote to Teheran . |
| 55 | This packet of light would disturb the particle and cause it to move at a speed in some direction . |
| 56 | Whereas in the 6th edition the re-written §246 dismisses the above as ‘ all my experience permitted me to say at the time … and that his research of the previous five years had wholly solved the difficulties of repetition . |
| 57 | They are likely to stay for a long time with one organisation , and indeed many organisations seek to bind them to them by offering fringe benefits , particularly in the form of " loyalty bonuses " to encourage them to return at the start of each new banqueting season . |
| 58 | It was just warm enough for us to sit at the table outside and drink cool wine in the fading sun . |
| 59 | This was Madge , who made costumes for the rest of us to wear at the party nights . |
| 60 | I told myself he might have meant us to meet at the Festival , so I went along there and searched for him in the crowd . ’ |