Example sentences of "[pers pn] [to-vb] at [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They invited them to sit at a table and were joined by an unusually tall , thin man who was extraordinarily blonde for his age which was thirty to thirtyfive . |
| 2 | Like a host in some cheerful tavern , he told them to tether their horses and ushered them in , asking them to sit at the table and wait while he finished his business in his own secret chamber . |
| 3 | The professor 's secretary , who is wearing fluffy aquamarine slippers , asks me to wait at the end of a blank corridor . |
| 4 | Much of the writing about television fiction seems to me to remain at the level of elementary genres , grounded in the dominance of the semantic aspect , with relatively little analytic or historical attention to the ‘ verbal ’ ( style , mise-en-scene ) or the ‘ syntactic ’ ( narrative structure ) : there is very little close textual analysis of television fiction , and there is no scholarly history of the development of television form to compare with the histories which have emerged of early cinema . |
| 5 | Yes there were criticism but it 's not appropriate for me to comment at the moment . |
| 6 | ‘ He 's asked me to dine at the villa he 's looking after for a few months , just to oblige a couple of ex-pats . |
| 7 | PC Chris Eden said : ‘ It 's amazing how drivers ’ attitudes change when we ask them to look at the recording . |
| 8 | He likes me to smile at the camera , so twice I pulled shocking faces . |
| 9 | He wanted me to look at the provision by the business of work experience for secondary school students during the compulsory stage of their education . |
| 10 | ‘ Walked on the race course before breakfast the air balmy and very delightful , great numbers of the blue mountain parrots were making their morning meal on a large kind of the Eucalypti — two of the beautiful Nankeen night herons passed over our heads and we heard the curious note of the coul [ cowl ] bird or bald-headed friar — returned with an excellent appetite — drew all day — in the evening John called me to look at the skin of a snake more than six feet long which James shot in the act of ascending a tree — also brought me some beautiful specimens of a climbing plant bearing thick clusters of cream colour blossoms . ’ |
| 11 | Merymose asked me to look at the body . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ There 's a very special person I want you to meet at the concert tomorrow . |
| 13 | The Super Nintendo Scope light guns — which enables you to shoot at the television set with pinpoint accuracy — wo n't be in the shops until the end of next month . |
| 14 | I want you to look at a cow now . |
| 15 | Is the on the C V T , but again it 's , it 's easier to look at something when we 're talking about this , so I 'm going to ask you to look at the Covermaster rate book , which does n't have page numbers , but I want you to find the allocation to units table which is about four or five pages in . |
| 16 | Now the next , I want you to look at the verse prologue of the play . |
| 17 | It all available for you to buy at the end of the day . |
| 18 | ‘ No you 're not , there 's far too much for you to do at the farm . ’ |
| 19 | Erm , the next bit of , that I want you to find which is the address and telephone section , that also , I 'd like you to put at the front of the active binder . |
| 20 | ‘ Dave , I want you to stay at the office . |
| 21 | ‘ I told you to stay at the house . ’ |
| 22 | It is difficult for you to foresee at the beginning of your programme just how you will feel , what things will happen , which goals might prove harder than anticipated . |
| 23 | ‘ I want you to begin at the beginning and tell me your life . |
| 24 | Because they believed and they got me to believe at the time , that nationalization would be the cure for all our ills . |
| 25 | The British people will hold them to account at the election . |
| 26 | Their comments have been so interesting and helpful in enabling me to arrive at a diet plan perfected for absolute maximum effect . |
| 27 | There was good reason for him to remain at the helm now , too : the wind was freshening and veering , so that it was coming close to dead astern . |
| 28 | For example : I expect her to obey me when I make a reasonable request or command , so that , if ( say ) I ask her to remain at the table until she 's finished her meal , she does so without endless arguments or fits of temper . |
| 29 | ‘ I tell her to sit at the back of the class , otherwise nobody can see over her head . ’ |
| 30 | If the partners unanimously or by a prescribed majority feel that one of their number should no longer remain with the firm they are given power to require him to retire at the end of a period of notice , typically six months or not less than six months to expire at the end of the firm 's accounting year . |