Example sentences of "to [pers pn] at [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Firms like ICI or Ford might , as in earlier years , have been able to build larger or more technically advanced sets for their own electricity supplies , but faced with the same shortages of steel and skilled men as the supply industry , they were now less inclined to branch out in this way , particularly as the BEA were selling electricity to them at prices based on historic costs , even though the new power stations were costing more . |
| 2 | So I felt inexpressible gratitude to you for giving me the support and care of that relationship , however attenuated it appeared to me at times : |
| 3 | Thus death has been ever close to me — so close that it seemed to me at times that I could reach out and touch it . |
| 4 | A nice , sensible girl , mad on animals , and very helpful to me at times . |
| 5 | and you know how they say to you at times oh thanks ever so much , I 've never heard anybody that would cover a thing in quite so much detail , I mean you do n't want to sound like a machine that 's pumping out information |
| 6 | Eleanor was a bit of a trial to him at times . |
| 7 | She had , of late , felt herself uncannily able to predict the next word , the next move , in any dialogue : she could hear and take in three conversations at once : she could see remotely as through a two-way mirror the private lives of her patients , sometimes of her friends : she had felt reality to be revealed to her at times in flashes beyond even the possibility of rational calculation : had felt in danger ( why danger ? ) of too much knowledge , of a kind of powerlessness and sadness that is born of knowledge : for these reasons , perhaps , was it that she had decided to multiply the possibilities so recklessly , to construct a situation beyond her own grasping ? |
| 8 | ‘ I say , does your Dad really vote Labour ? ’ had been one of the politer questions addressed to her at elections and other periods of heightened political interest . |
| 9 | Blaming the other is a common phenomenon and we all resort to it at times , whether justified or not . |
| 10 | She knew he was not actually in the red at the bank , but he was pretty near to it at times , although he was now paid a very good salary , much more than Len would ever have been paid if he had still been alive and in the job . |