Example sentences of "a [noun] [verb] [pron] at " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'm not naive , I know others will make more be back with more bids because he 's such a top -class goal scorer , ’ says the manager , who has just signed a contract keeping him at Hillsborough for the same time as Hirst . |
| 2 | You see , I did n't know her for long and it was a privilege to meet her at all . |
| 3 | And I have half a mind to take you at your word , give you what you seem to want and turn you out of my house after I have finished with you . ’ |
| 4 | It is always a pleasure to meet you at Link meetings and other events . |
| 5 | It was a pleasure to meet you at the Scottish Taxi Federation exhibition at Riccarton last week . |
| 6 | Monaco despatched a scout to trail him at Bournemouth the following week , and they will use the next couple of days to decide whether to gamble on bringing Lambert to Europe 's gambling capital . |
| 7 | It is recorded somewhat ruefully that , after years of struggle , when the Veterinarian had won its fight to get the course lengthened , students who had previously been apprenticed for three or four years to a practitioner claimed they at least ought to be able to leave the College after 12 months , and not have to stay the same period — two years — as the non-apprenticed . |
| 8 | KEVIN KEEGAN has had secret talks with Newcastle directors in a bid to keep him at St James 's Park . |
| 9 | Several rioters were killed during an attack on a mill using them at Salford in 1812 , but few manufacturers had as yet introduced them , or were intending to in the near future , and disturbances were intermingled with food riots and political agitation . |
| 10 | On their behalf , a local radio station has launched a campaign to keep him at the County Ground . |
| 11 | It is worth mentioning , all the same , that a time will come when a frequent absentee can be fairly dismissed and that a failure to consult him at the time of dismissal will not necessarily mean that the company will be powerless to resist an unfair dismissal claim . |
| 12 | He figured it was worth a nickel to call me at the Globe , and he 's not a wasteful man . ’ |
| 13 | Then take back the cards and set them out in an apparently random fashion and challenge a person to play you at pairs . |
| 14 | A mule began to bray in alarm and a Myrcan struck it at once with his staff until it fell silent , blood oozing from its nose . |
| 15 | Have you had a chance to play it at all ? |
| 16 | As for the Archduke , though I personally prefer a more tautly sustained sense of direction in the opening Allegro moderato , this performance as a whole reveals them at their best , with a truly rapt and spacious slow movement as prime proof of their vision . |
| 17 | Such a despair seized him at the sound of his own acceptance that he made a half-hearted attempt even then to deliver himself . |
| 18 | In 756 Cynewulf was able to seize the kingdom from Sigeberht , confining him to the region of Hampshire where a swineherd slew him at Privett ( ASC A , s.a. 755 ) ; but he was obliged in 756–7 to witness Aethelbald 's grant of land in Wiltshire to Abbot Eanberht ( CS 181 : S 96 ) . |
| 19 | A WOMAN flung herself at a mugger and bit off his right ear when he snatched her bag in Milan . |
| 20 | ‘ He has no manners , eats like a peasant , talks like he needs salt on his marrow , and is as free with his smile as a tinker cheating you at a fair on a saint 's day . |
| 21 | A dog ate him at the bus stop ! |
| 22 | Suddenly a dog flung itself at me snarling and growling and they all stopped what they were doing to look in my direction . |
| 23 | Leading politicians in Britain , particularly in the mid-nineteenth century Liberal Party , scorned the imperial enterprise as no more than a way of offering the unemployable aristocracy a means to enrich itself at heavy cost to the innocent . |
| 24 | ‘ A man met us at the door and said his wife Sheila Brown was still in the bungalow . |
| 25 | ‘ What a thing to tell me at the start of a visit here ! ’ |
| 26 | Perhaps this is a challenge to put it at the centre of our lives , to think about it and , this Lent , to read the story as if we were there . |
| 27 | The song of a nightingale greeted us at the entrance to Hotel Glade . |
| 28 | A matron chaperoned them at all times , trekking them from digs to school , on to the theatre and finally back to their digs at night , the crocodile of children walking slower as the day progressed . |
| 29 | He has a brother in Devon and a sister in Manchester and his mother travels from Exeter twice a year to visit him at the centre where she attends the pujas the daily services . |
| 30 | Normally , developers paying a barrister to represent them at an inquiry must pick up the tab . |