Example sentences of "[vb pp] [verb] [pers pn] at the " in BNC.
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| 1 | While he was away she never stopped reminding us at the top of her voice that she was n't a five by two . |
| 2 | If Rohan needed to have a private word with her , why had n't he arranged to see her at the house instead ? |
| 3 | ‘ It reminds me of my dear father one day at Sandwich , ’ she was saying , ‘ when we were picnicking on the sands and we had arranged to meet him at the nineteenth hole . |
| 4 | She had n't really expected to see him at the funeral , though she had looked forward to the possibility with unseemly excitement considering the solemnity of the occasion . |
| 5 | And he had probably expected to see her at the shop this morning , while she had been waiting impatiently at his office . |
| 6 | After he had come to collect her at the flat they joined a party of junior officers and debutantes at the Haymarket Theatre to see Pygmalion by the fashionable playwright George Bernard Shaw . |
| 7 | My husband had come to collect us at the airport and we came back here in a minicar . |
| 8 | I could make it a fairy-tale instead , if I wanted to , Anyway , It 's the capital of the empire ; a courtier starts a liaison with one of the princesses ; the demands she and the impersonate on his time get to be too much , so he secretly has an android made to impersonate him at the endless court rituals and boring receptions ; nobody notices . |
| 9 | As she went she remembered that Angela had promised to meet her at the bus-stop . |
| 10 | Muscles yes , you 've got to er if you 're going to build power into muscles you 've got to , you 've got to give the load to those particular muscles and you 've got to do it at the right load . |
| 11 | For reasons linked to the physical strength needed to operate them at the beginning , spinning mules were operated by men . |
| 12 | He had intended to leave them at the station , but the Left Luggage Office , he had just been reminded , closed at 9.30 . |
| 13 | ‘ Because the twins are bound to wake us at the crack of dawn . ’ |
| 14 | And indeed , four people had just arrived to join them at the table . |
| 15 | Those holding tickets for the pulled September show are asked to exchange them at the point of purchase . |
| 16 | Many are offered in garden centres and shops , loose or prepacked , from February onwards , but care must be taken to plant them at the right time or thy may fail . |
| 17 | It was because she 'd just started to sell them at the shop . |
| 18 | She might have tried to reach me at the office during the afternoon . |
| 19 | If you continue working , say for an additional five years , your pension will then be 45 per cent higher than if you had started taking it at the normal age . |
| 20 | If I had ever thought of the possibility of being taken prisoner while I was in England , I should have expected all Germans to be like the officer who had tried to interrogate me at the aerodrome or the two soldiers who had brought me from the aerodrome to Amsterdam . |
| 21 | Draft specifications for general SVQs in this area have been sent out for consultation , and a seminar was held to discuss them at the end of October . |
| 22 | One of the great regrets , I am sure , of all hon. Members is that because the hon. Gentleman has chosen to leave us at the next election he will never have the opportunity to be a junior Minister . |