Example sentences of "[verb] to [indef pn] at " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Jackie ca n't speak to anyone at the moment . |
| 2 | I 'm going to talk to somebody at the shop — the sister if possible . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ Then one evening this down-to-earth painter from Harrow got down from his ladder to talk to someone at the end of the passage . |
| 4 | Technology is speeding processes all the time : clients of Thomas Cook Travel in the US can get direct information about flights and make bookings without going through a travel consultant or speaking to anyone at an airline . |
| 5 | There was enough dirt on his knees to grow potatoes , and his short trousers obviously belonged to someone at least three years younger , but he gave her a toothless grin , slid back in his seat and picked his nose . |
| 6 | For size 14 , add 12mm ( ½″ ) side seam of sleeve , tapering to nothing at lower edge of sleeve only . |
| 7 | His mother Mrs Alice McGettigan said : ‘ It could happen to anyone at any time . |
| 8 | I agreed to everything at once . |
| 9 | Following an intensive campaign by the World Health Organization , when mass injections of penicillin were given to everyone at risk , this form of syphilis has been eradicated in Yugoslavia . |
| 10 | They have to report to someone at parliamentary level when they have completed their analyses . |
| 11 | I could have had a contract to compare favourably with any offered to anyone at the club . |
| 12 | Transvaal , one of the strongest teams in South Africa proved to everyone at Kingsholm that Springbok rugby is still a force . |
| 13 | I 'm not talking to anyone at all and I certainly do n't want to talk to you ever again . ’ |
| 14 | More seriously , his understated , meditative style is lost : the impression is that his timing is fine , the audience 's is all wrong : ‘ I was talking to someone at a party the other night … he happened to mention that he was reading Virginia Woolf 's letters . |
| 15 | er a lot of the time , I was talking to someone at er |
| 16 | Yanked above hounds , reverts to nothing at all , |
| 17 | As he later admitted in an interview with CA Magazine , ‘ I said to someone at the time , I never again want to conduct a debate lasting three years without once being able to raise my voice ’ . |
| 18 | The question whether it would ever be right to move to one at some distant date is separate . |
| 19 | Even Tokyo 's toll-charge system , built in the 1960's , is only two lanes wide and narrows to one at some key junctions . |
| 20 | as well erm but I mean if those come to anything at all they 'll only come t gon na come to something fairly local are n't they . |