Example sentences of "he [vb past] to [pers pn] at " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 ? |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | He took to it at once after the bull arrived in September 1388 . |
| 5 | He went to it at once , looking for a catch , a way of releasing it , but there was nothing . |
| 6 | ‘ 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 . |
| 7 | On 27 August 1935 , he wrote to me at my Purley address about it as follows : |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | He responded to her at once . |