Example sentences of "[prep] [pers pn] at a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So long as the documents have been sent to all those entitled to attend a general meeting in accordance with section 238 , it is a pointless farce to require a formal general meeting to be held in order that they may be ‘ laid ’ unless a member wants to raise questions about them at a meeting , or the auditors want to have an opportunity of talking to the members about them . |
| 2 | Just ask for them at a maternity clinic or child health clinic and show your Income Support payment book or , if you 're paid by girocheque , the letter that came with the girocheque . |
| 3 | You — you took advantage of me at a moment of weakness . ’ |
| 4 | Different theoretical traditions , it is sometimes claimed , belong to ‘ incommensurable paradigms ’ ( Kuhn , 1962 ) ; one can work within only one of them at a time . |
| 5 | It took all three of them to lift him out of the reeking waterlogged shelter through an opening just big enough for one of them at a time . |
| 6 | When you have some children who find it very difficult to work with others , one solution might be to work with much smaller groups , maybe even just a couple of them at a time for five minutes or so . |
| 7 | You act on one of them at a time , and then decide which , if any , is going to be most productive . |
| 8 | T : I 've got a lot more respect for them now because I met one of them at a party once and he told me they 're going to be bigger than The Beatles — in all seriousness . |
| 9 | They should always be placed in the same positions each time ; you should be able to put your hand on any of them at a moment 's notice : no scrabbling around ! |
| 10 | If you do n't turn your body to face your opponent directly you will succeed only in placing both of you at a disadvantage . |
| 11 | Ten whole words out of you at a stretch ! |
| 12 | They came past him at a run , three of them , two heading straight for the room that Pope had indicated on the floor plan . |
| 13 | Alternatively , I booked a room for you at a bed-and-breakfast . |
| 14 | I was n't allowed to go anywhere near them at a time when I most needed reassuring . |
| 15 | The last person to see his wife and children alive was Joe Zerboni who had played bridge with them at a Halloween party at a California country club . |
| 16 | But later , finding myself sharing a sofa with her at a friend 's dinner-party , I mentioned the film and that I understood she had approved of it . |
| 17 | HERE 'S someone to make tennis ace Monica Seles really grunt and groan — Hollywood heart-throb Pierce Brosnan , spotted with her at a tournament in Los Angeles . |
| 18 | He ordered a pastis for himself and a pineau de Charentes for Sabine , then sat down with her at a table in the corner . |
| 19 | He took her down to the brasserie , sat with her at a corner table away from the main body of the room . |
| 20 | Damon and Rebecca fell in love and wed after she paid £300 for a date with him at a charity auction in California . |
| 21 | When we got him out of here , a couple of the boys had a cuppa with him at a caff down the road . |
| 22 | When , after a hazardous journey through thickening fog , using only the statutory semi-blacked-out lights , he asked her if she would care to dine with him at a roadhouse not far from their destination , she accepted with alacrity . |
| 23 | She would be responsible for integrating the two contributions and making sure it will be a coherent whole and she would share her royalty with him at a rate to be determined by the proportion of the work each ends up doing . |
| 24 | He should have realized that it was a poem that Miss Gilberd herself had had drummed into her at a Girls ' High School in the West Riding , sometime in the nineteen-forties . |
| 25 | I first came under him at a period in his life when he was abandoning the piano . |
| 26 | The accompaniment sounds very well when it is hummed , with perhaps a few words here and there while the solo part rests , or to join with it at a point of culmination . |
| 27 | Conciliation officers are very useful for advising employers of the tasks before them at a tribunal hearing . |
| 28 | He had been almost tempted to buy some from her at a discount until he remembered her prices . |
| 29 | Shultz had put his arm round him at a party and told him what a remarkable job he had done , keeping the Nicaraguan resistance alive : ‘ I knew what he meant . |
| 30 | We are continuing to invest in it at a rate of over £1 million for every working day . |