Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] to [pron] at " in BNC.
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1 | ‘ You do enough mumbling to yourself at the back of the shop when the child 's around , but when it comes to something constructive … ’ |
2 | I was therefore delighted when one day in May they suddenly reported to me at Luqa . |
3 | Had he not , through the magnetic influence he was able to exert even over those of his own race , personally seen to it at the Peace Conference that these Arabs were not sent unrewarded away ? |
4 | It deals with pains like appendicitis , coley cystitis , which is inflammation of the gall bladder — about nine different diseases — and it merely says to you at the end of the operation based on the last five or six hundred patients I 've seen , the probability of this patient having appendicitis is ninety per cent , the probability of something else being ten per cent . |
5 | It probably sums up the case and we can discuss it and perhaps add to it at that time . |
6 | There was enough dirt on his knees to grow potatoes , and his short trousers obviously belonged to someone at least three years younger , but he gave her a toothless grin , slid back in his seat and picked his nose . |
7 | Where he found the energy — Anyway , this poor child , only nineteen she was ( he should 've been ashamed of himself and him a man of forty ) — if she 'd only come to me at the start ! |
8 | They can literally come to you at the museum can they ? |
9 | He had not written anything he had not already said to me at different times ’ . ’ |
10 | It does please me but the thing sometimes is , you do n't get results , I mean I just said to him at half time ‘ come on we 've got to be a bit stronger , ’ you know I thought we were playing quite well , but I thought we were letting them dominate us a little bit . |
11 | The same thing always happened to him at school if he was brought out to the front of the hall for talking in assembly , or if he had to stand in the aisle with his hands on his head for not paying attention in class . |
12 | I did n't mind , I was happy that he still talked to me at all . |
13 | All are publishers ' editions and they are nearly always offered to you at greatly reduced prices and start from as little as £1.95 . |
14 | ‘ She 's hardly speaking to me at the moment — except to accuse me of stealing her golf-clubs . ’ |
15 | I remember an English don once coming to me at the end of a meeting , and saying that she had suddenly seen that evening in Jesus Christ the answer to the rather negative existentialist framework into which her life had been cast . |
16 | ‘ He was so furious , he hardly spoke to me at all . ’ |
17 | Over the years she had become a stranger to us , her sisters tending to avoid her ; all but my mother , who still wrote to her at Christmas-time . |
18 | and maybe like read to them at the end of the day or whatever . |
19 | In cases where both men and women have been regularly exposed to it at work , nitrous oxide has been linked to a high rate of miscarriages . |
20 | When teachers , matrons , the housemistress and finally the headmistress all started to show some concern and more disapproval at my unco-operative ( anorexic ) behaviour , I refused to answer their questions , or even to talk to them at all , and during the course of their homilies I merely stared out of the window or smiled to myself in a superior , scornful sort of way . |
21 | Please write to him at 6 Aldridge Road Villas , London W11 1BP . |
22 | However , if you did not read it and require further information , please write to me at |
23 | Please write to me at : Workstation , 1-11 Ironmonger Row , London ECIV 3QN . |
24 | Please write to me at 20 Upper Ground , London SE 1 9PF . |
25 | If you have news of either fish please write to us at — and if you 're seeking information on a fish , please let us know . |
26 | If you would like more information on coping with the effects of head injuries please write to us at this address : |
27 | If anyone would like to share their story with other readers , whether it 's happy , sad , amusing or just a bit out of the ordinary , then please write to us at the usual address . |
28 | Most children learn about epilepsy when they first see their parent having a seizure , and it is vital the condition is fully explained to them at this time . |
29 | The governments of Byelarus , Kazakhstan , Kirgizstan , Moldova , Uzbekistan and Ukraine had called on the Russian government on April 2 not to deregulate oil prices before Oct. 1 , fearing for their economies if the cheap fuel they received from Russia was instead sold to them at world prices . |
30 | If only such offenders were punished by having a Radio One DJ surgically joined to them at the hip , perhaps they would understand the crime of incongruous and pig-ugly extensions . |