Example sentences of "[to-vb] [pers pn] [verb] at the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Having made contact with a group of students at the nearby Architectural Association he went to see them play at the Goings On Club in Archer Street , a tiny place largely frequented by poets . |
| 2 | The pelagic animals generally try to achieve ‘ neutral buoyancy ’ , to enable them to stay at the required depth without effort ; and many have devices to alter buoyancy . |
| 3 | They are likely to stay for a long time with one organisation , and indeed many organisations seek to bind them to them by offering fringe benefits , particularly in the form of " loyalty bonuses " to encourage them to return at the start of each new banqueting season . |
| 4 | From casual separates for relaxing to glamorous evening outfits to help you sparkle at the party ! |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | What would employees below think to hear us shouting at the top of our voices about what is and what is not the correct Chinaman ? ’ |
| 7 | My father has agreed to let me study at the university , so we shall be able to spend a lot of time together . ’ |
| 8 | GRIDIRON : London Monarchs yesterday drew 17–17 with Birmingham Fire to leave them anchored at the bottom of the European Division of the World League . |
| 9 | Still , even when Grigorovich refused three years ago to let her guest at the Royal Ballet , she did what she was told . |
| 10 | Both the projector and the turntable were powered by the same motor to ensure they ran at the same speed . |
| 11 | It was too dark to see the line , and Trent called to the man on the rod to keep it pointing at the Zodiac . |
| 12 | With a heart beating as if it wanted to explode I looked at the two dead men ; I had never seen either of them before . |
| 13 | In a business where fees are usually paid on a success only , rather than an hourly , basis , this may come a bit hard to people who have worked hard for two or three months on a deal only to see it fall at the last hurdle . |
| 14 | The notice to the creditors must state a time and date , not more than four days before the meeting , by when the creditors must lodge their proofs of debt ( Form 6.37 in Sched 4 to the rules , see App C , form 34 ) and , if applicable , proxies , in order to entitle them to vote at the first meeting ( r 6.79(4) ) . |
| 15 | ‘ You write the specifications for her repairs , and I 'll guarantee to have them done at the best boatyard in America . ’ |
| 16 | If Tommaso had n't troubled to have me paged at the opera , you would certainly have performed coitus with this young woman and d'ye know what would have happened then ? ’ |
| 17 | Annie must have used the house-phone to have her paged at the restaurant . |
| 18 | It seemed the natural thing to have him singing at the wedding . |
| 19 | Mrs Thatcher fought to have it put at the top of the agenda at the EC Summit in June 1989 . |
| 20 | In the Middle Ages these mills were the property of the lord of the manor who possessed ‘ soke rights ’ , which meant that anyone growing corn on his manor was obliged to have it ground at the lord 's mill because hand mills were outlawed . |
| 21 | ‘ One of them was so desperate to stop me overtaking at the ford he lost his footing and fell backwards into the water . ’ |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | To enable us to get at the real reasons for lending decisions and influences upon those decisions , we decided to adopt a different approach from any previous research … ‘ |
| 24 | It fulfilled none of my expectations and seemed to be merely trying to make me laugh at the fact that it had left me standing there grasping at nothing . |
| 25 | ‘ I suppose you 're planning to make me foam at the mouth and gabble in obsolete tongues . ’ |
| 26 | He had to touch her arm to make her look at the programme . |