Example sentences of "have [vb pp] [pers pn] at " in BNC.
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1 | ICI has developed it at Billingham , and it will eliminate the need to dump waste from the manufacture of perspex into the River Tees and the North sea — one year ahead of schedule , too . |
2 | It is your enthusiasm , dedication and sheer hard work which has placed us at the forefront of our industry . |
3 | Future Image maintains that the extension to a wider base has won them at least half a dozen valuable new clients , and he thinks its the way forward for all agencies . |
4 | ‘ Oh Angel — my mother says she knows several cases which were worse than mine , and the husband has not minded much … well , he has accepted it at least . |
5 | She plans to launch her own designer clothes label but that is one area where her younger sister has pipped her at the post . |
6 | Two whole sizes bigger than his father Northern Dancer , Nijinsky has matched him at stud . |
7 | Sony Corp has a new ‘ booksize ’ workstation it calls bigNEWS NWS-3150 , and has priced it at $5,645 , making it just possible for the individual user to afford . |
8 | CARL Fogarty has done it at last ! |
9 | I do n't know if it , whether he has got it at home |
10 | Where properties are untenanted , Retirement Assured has valued them at open market value with vacant possession . |
11 | He has raced it at the Nurnburg Ring incorporating a five day trip and intends to explore the delights of this new venture to the utmost . |
12 | ‘ What I really dread is Mark ringing me in the morning in a rage because the postman has woken him at 7.30am to deliver a huge box of clothes for me . |
13 | As for their laying the birch on my pocket , I compute that my support of Lewis and Brzeska has cost me at the lowest estimate about £20 per year , from one source alone since that regrettable occurrence , since I dared to discern a great sculptor and a great painter in the midst of England 's artistic desolaton . |
14 | That caution has cost him at least one discovery . |
15 | In all probability thoughtless pegging has cost him at least £1,000 , possibly £5,000 . |
16 | Portsmouth 's manager , Jim Smith , said : ‘ The FA Cup has cost us at least six League points and now we have to get back to our priority of winning promotion . ’ |
17 | Because Mr has represented him , Mr said before that he he thought it was as duty solicitor that he , he has represented him at some stage as duty solicitor but , he is represented under legal aid though this defendant by a firm of solicitors in Birmingham and he 's anxious to be committed for trial today . |
18 | He , he has represented him at some stage as duty solicitor . |
19 | ‘ Story of my life , ’ he growls when a red declines to go into a pocket for the simple reason that he has hit it at the wrong angle . |
20 | Now this phrase strictly controlled erm I I I wanted to ask it myself because I you know trying to push it through to what it actually means I think the county council if you like has taken it at what may be face value and said well strictly controlled must mean something . |
21 | ‘ He has put me at your service , sir , ’ replied the monk , ‘ for the love this boy bears you . |
22 | ‘ By pushing the boat out unilaterally , ’ says Weir Group 's Ron Garrick , ‘ the Government has put us at a severe disadvantage compared with our German and American counterparts . |
23 | Your child knows , or thinks , she has put you at a disadvantage by her highly cunning tactics : you are made vulnerable by her highly visible ( indeed , audible ) tantrums and disobedience in public places , whether in supermarkets , on public transport , at the park , during a church service or a visit to the doctor . |
24 | ‘ Mind you , ’ Sutcliffe added , ‘ I do n't think it 's just lack of funds that has kept him at home lately . |
25 | He hammers home the message that the US international role has destroyed it at home : ‘ The battle is right here , and it 's not incoming missiles , it 's incoming inequality . ’ |
26 | She 'd heard him at the glass door — a double knock , very light . |
27 | Dimly doing her best to remember what they 'd taught her at school , Diane believed that she 'd managed to work out the map reference by the time that Ross Aldridge arrived at the Hall . |
28 | A year in Milan , Italy 's great fashion centre , had sounded close to perfect — at least , that was how the woman who 'd interviewed her at International Models had made it sound . |
29 | Hamnett took the towpath ; insofar as he 'd considered it at all , the old fellow thought he must have returned the other way . ’ |
30 | She 'd met him at one of Klein 's parties — a casual encounter — and had given him very little conscious thought subsequently . |