Example sentences of "[verb] [pers pn] at the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They ca n't gazump you at the last minute cos it makes |
| 2 | ‘ It reminds me of my dear father one day at Sandwich , ’ she was saying , ‘ when we were picnicking on the sands and we had arranged to meet him at the nineteenth hole . |
| 3 | Sheffield went ahead after 30 minutes when Gage knocked the ball past Allen as he burst into the goalmouth and , though Walker parried both his shot and Deane 's follow-up , Deane beat him at the third attempt . |
| 4 | At the speed the train is going , I will catch it at the next station . |
| 5 | I was gon na catch it at the next stop . |
| 6 | I think it would be nice , and then we could actually discuss it at the next planning meeting which I presume , which is the twentieth |
| 7 | Er if there were holes in the information or whether really whatever board members feel and erm we can consider it at the next meeting . |
| 8 | She was about to shake her head , but changed it at the last moment to a nod . |
| 9 | I can not chuck them at the last minute . |
| 10 | Harvey was there in a red-coat uniform , smiling and doing his neat little dances and pretending to drop plates and saving them at the last minute , and the girls were saying ‘ Ooo ’ and slyly studying each other 's hairdos and shoes . |
| 11 | Saw him at a sale being knocked down to a known horsemeat dealer and stepped in and outbid him at the last moment . |
| 12 | We see a dancer at a rave , film him later that week , and project him at the next rave . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ They insisted that they held the meeting at a place of their choosing and only told us at the last minute . |
| 14 | We 'll see you at the next coaches ' meeting . ’ |
| 15 | ‘ It was quite usual for me to take on this sort of job but it was n't usual for him to make an appointment for me and only tell me at the last minute , especially when it meant working after hours . |
| 16 | If rail travel gets worse before it gets better , voters may dump them at the next general election . |
| 17 | I should have realized that Clive would dump me at the first opportunity , that he had in fact been looking for an excuse to do so . |
| 18 | The man heard or sensed him at the last moment and turned with his hands coming up to a fighting stance but Maxim feinted through them and hit him low in the stomach . |
| 19 | One of the great regrets , I am sure , of all hon. Members is that because the hon. Gentleman has chosen to leave us at the next election he will never have the opportunity to be a junior Minister . |
| 20 | Whatever the General may consider best , I will destroy you at the first available opportunity . ’ |
| 21 | Ideally we should launch it at the 40th Anniversary Celebrations and hold the Draw at the Annual Reunion in November . |
| 22 | We came very close to doing it at the last election . |
| 23 | I rang Prentice as I could n't think how to put it off any longer , and got him at the second number he 'd left . |
| 24 | It had been uppermost in her mind to ask about Marc , but her courage failed her at the last . |
| 25 | She saw him at the first lecture , and thrilled at his cultured voice . |
| 26 | If I do n't pass it at the third time I 'm just gon na give up cos I 'm not failing more |
| 27 | All we we 've agreed that we 're going to need someone to control it at the next fair . |
| 28 | He proved how difficult this feat is by failing to repeat it at the second time of asking . |
| 29 | They would n't serve us at the first few joints we tried , which was n't surprising , because we came through the door yelling our head off , or trying to , in this faulty new voice of ours . |
| 30 | It is more difficult to know whether an animal goes through the experience of at one moment not being able to see a food item , but then being able to see it at the next . |