Example sentences of "he [verb] to [pron] at " in BNC.

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1 Then he said , " Burgess is at home , and I 've asked him to report to you at the mortuary .
2 Got him to agree to it at last .
3 It will ask him to send to me at Baker Street the pocket book I left at the Hall . ’
4 ‘ May God rest your soul , Mother , ’ I heard him say to himself at last .
5 He was late yesterday , got a brand new vehicle and , yet I mean if , if was getting here at one and yesterday he got to ours at half past eleven , so erm , it was half past eleven that 's right , it was dead on , so erm , erm whatever 's he going to be like when it gets near to Christmas ?
6 He proposed to her at the offices of Faber and Faber ; after she had accepted , he explained that he would have asked her much sooner if he had known her real feelings towards him , but she had been so formal with him that he was not even sure if she liked him — which , after eight years , suggests an odd insecurity or impercipience .
7 When Adam had a document for Miranda to sign that he thought she might argue about , he always included it in a sheaf of other papers he handed to her at the end of the day , when she was exhausted .
8 He took to it at once after the bull arrived in September 1388 .
9 He went to it at once , looking for a catch , a way of releasing it , but there was nothing .
10 He smiled to himself at the head of the stairs .
11 " Did n't he talk to you at all ? "
12 ‘ Would you like a cup of coffee ? ’ he said to her at a station , and she grinned at him over the cardboard beaker , holding it with both hands .
13 On 27 August 1935 , he wrote to me at my Purley address about it as follows :
14 On 15 November , he wrote to me at 41A Roland Gardens : The Tuesday was duly fixed up , and we prepared as good a meal as the rationing system , still in operation , made possible .
15 He responded to her at once .
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