Example sentences of "[vb past] [pers pn] [to-vb] at [adj] " in BNC.

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1 The following May I called him , got through his secretary by saying Mr. Jones asked me to call at this office , which was more or less true , erm , so I got through to him , and said , my name is Ricky Elliot , we met at the N E C , you asked me to give you a call this month about time management training .
2 This led me to look at various conventional sorts of murder which could be seen as being idea or perfect murders , with the notion of reversing one of them .
3 Well that 's because , perhaps because , when they were young children people directed them in that kind of decision making , or look people directed them to look at those sorts of levels .
4 Furthermore , while in former times the responsible authorities strove their hardest to mitigate poverty , of circumstance and opportunity , by driving hard for high levels of education provision , low expectation still depressed educational achievement , and work-related training in industry continued to be low-grade — where employers allowed it to happen at all .
5 Several times while I was at Magdalen he had me to dine at All Souls with its distinguished Fellows .
6 Tehran radio announced on 31 December that ‘ The Iranian navy has seized a Danish ship in the Gulf of Oman which was carrying explosives destined for the ruling regime in Iraq and forced it to dock at one of the ports of the Islamic Republic of Iran . ’
7 Two dissident Myanma students hijacked a Myanma aircraft on a domestic flight and forced it to land at U-tapao military air base in Thailand on Oct. 6 , 1989 .
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