Example sentences of "[conj] [vb base] [pers pn] at the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the corner of another carriage there sits , his face screened by a magazine , some lonely soul who has no one to bid him adieu at this end of his journey or welcome him at the other . |
| 2 | Do you want to give them now or do it at the end ? |
| 3 | I think that one of the things that get me at the moment is the time keeping , it 's very bad |
| 4 | Most people vary enormously in the reserves that they have available , so that the things that floor them at the end of term may be the same small irritations that they sailed through at the beginning . |
| 5 | A Hong Kong-based Scottish engineer and historian , Mr Charles Walker , is behind the scheme to inscribe a gravestone and place it at the spot where Liddell is known to have been buried . |
| 6 | Whenever she washed the windows in one room , she would mark the date down on the card , and place it at the end of the section . |
| 7 | The trees poise to eject leaves and hurl them at the wind , there is nobody in the big house to see the park 's invasion by the people , the iron benches under the elms are empty , each foot curling into a clutch of leaves . |
| 8 | But what brought her to the point of retaliation was the sight of his hands mauling a plate of sliced mutton , digging his fingers into the pieces of meat and snatching them up and trying to screw them up like pieces of paper and hurl them at the bookcase . |
| 9 | Why do n't we take it to some safe place a hundred miles away and dump it at the bottom of the deep blue sea ? ’ |
| 10 | I seemed to remember he had one and put it at the back of one of his chairs , and |
| 11 | Turn the card over and put it at the bottom of the pack |
| 12 | And you can mass type , erm mass headlines , and we do negative type leading and all the rest , but you have to add up that extra descender space and put it at the bottom of the headline . |
| 13 | Tess bravely made a little cross and put it at the head of the grave one evening , when she could enter the churchyard without being seen . |
| 14 | If it is argued that sarvodaya is an unattainable ideal , and that in the end one may have to settle for the happiness or good of 51 per cent , it could be stated in reply , that it is infinitely better to strive for sarvodaya and fail to realize it , than to start out with a limited objective and attain it at the expense of an unfortunate minority . |
| 15 | It took me about quarter of an hour to sort it all out , and then she asked what train and said she 'd get her mum to agree to ‘ take in this ‘ Vern ’ or whatever his name is ’ and meet us at the station . |
| 16 | ‘ When we 're ready to leave I 'll go to the clinic , get my passport out of the desk and meet you at the airport . |
| 17 | If the pool is to be made with a liner there is no difficulty , for all that need be done , is order the liner larger than needed for the pool and incorporate it at the edge as if it were a spreading shallow pool about 30 cm ( 1 ft ) deep ( Fig 14 ) . |
| 18 | If your statute obviously belongs to a particular title , like ‘ Contract , ’ take down that volume of the collection and open it at the title ( known as the ‘ group ’ ) . |
| 19 | Press the nozzle just before you aim it at the surface , and release it at the end of each stroke . |
| 20 | If we had anyone who could put up the money then we 'd buy our own and resell it at the end . ’ |
| 21 | Our business is to ensure that what we are doing now is done properly , not to take on board new activities and try and finance them at the expense of groups which are already suffering very poor , or at least inadequate services . |
| 22 | I could have my own contributions returned or I could leave my pension where it was and draw it at the age of sixty-five . |
| 23 | and nobble them at the start of the conference . |
| 24 | Elspeth is prepared ( her schedule permitting ) to drop guests at the start and collect them at the end of walks . |
| 25 | I propose Elizabeth that you circulate Jenny 's reprocedures to everyone but we do n't know with them , that we will read them prior to the next meeting and agree them at the meeting papers turning I have got to assess papers turning take one . |
| 26 | What Odysseus hears is without consequence for him ; he is able only to nod his head as a sign to be set free from his bonds ; but it is too late ; his men , who do not listen , know only the song 's danger but nothing of its beauty , and leave him at the mast to save him and themselves . |
| 27 | She was carrying a small spear and only just had time to raise it and thrust it at the Scarag . |
| 28 | I grab it and squirt it at the gape of her frightened mouth . |
| 29 | Rip it into tiny pieces and throw it at the bride and groom at the next wedding you see . |
| 30 | In order to keep the boys separate from the girls he used to draw a chalk line down the middle of our meeting room , and when we got carried away and crossed the line he would burst into a ferocious rage , pick up anything that was to hand — usually a book — and throw it at the offender , who had to duck fast in order not to be hit . |