Example sentences of "[verb] [to-vb] [pron] at [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Duncan took some persuading — £250 and the scrap option on the VW to be exact — but agreed to meet me at Blackberry Hill with his wrecker truck ( there is n't a vehicle known to man he ca n't get hold of ) in two hours . |
| 2 | I had arranged to meet them at Salima 's house , but when I got there she told me that the other two were at Ruksana 's place . |
| 3 | In the afternoons fishermen in small skiffs laid nets along the low island of reeds which lay between us and the main channel , returning to gather them at night . |
| 4 | He wants to see you at Kinsai . |
| 5 | I have n't spoken to Mr Boldwood since the autumn , when I promised to see him at Christmas , so I 'll have to go . |
| 6 | The study 's author , Michael Cameron , thinks that roads should be treated like telephone lines or the electricity supply : if customers want to use them at peak times , they should pay more . |
| 7 | Now they want to use them at home . |
| 8 | One rather nice touch : fibre optics are built into the thermal panels behind the ice , so if you want to use it at night it will glow in the dark . |
| 9 | She tried to put him at ease : " Why do n't you take your coat off ? " she said . |
| 10 | He tried to do it at home and that was |
| 11 | She once tried to draw herself at school ‘ when I was obsessed with the dark circles under my eyes . |
| 12 | Fred Bradley stayed very much in the background and his soft , kind eyes helped to put her at ease . |
| 13 | But however much he hated the thought of allowing Sara to commit herself to a man she had never met , he knew her too well and loved her too much to try to keep her at home against her will . |
| 14 | The industry concerned is the in-flight catering business which in the UK alone , produces many thousands of meals 24 hours a day every day and has to transport them at chill temperatures from the flight kitchens to individual aircraft , quite often with additional problems resulting from flight delays and so on . |
| 15 | Sun was expected to display it at PC Expo this summer but Snoopy has never been seen except behind closed doors . |
| 16 | I learned of his death when I tried to telephone him at Ladram Avionics . |
| 17 | John Warburton , a teacher for the progressive Inner London Education Authority , refused to lie to his pupils and was sacked ; Louise Boychuk , sacked for wearing a ‘ Lesbians Ignite ’ badge at her work as an insurance clerk , found that the Employment Appeal Tribunal agreed with her employers ' right to sack her ; John Saunders , who had never wished to tell anyone at work that he was gay , found that the E.A.T . |
| 18 | ‘ I tried to sign him at QPR three years ago , then again during the summer , ’ said Wednesday 's player-boss . |
| 19 | ‘ Hey , I ca n't wait to tell them at school . |
| 20 | I can not remember whether he has arranged to visit me at Twickenham . |
| 21 | ‘ Well , give my love to cousin George and say we 'll expect to see him at Cumbermound for the show on Sunday . |
| 22 | Even Barcelona would be pushed to meet it at present . |
| 23 | We felt pretty helpless in the train , as we did not know whether any arrangements had been made to meet us at Canton , but at the station we were welcomed by a Min. of Education official , together with a teacher-interpreter from Canton university , who surprised us with his urbane manner , excellent English , and his knowledge that David Owen had just been made the substantive Foreign Secretary to replace Anthony Crossland ( and that , incidentally , is about the last news we have heard about affairs in the U.K. ! ) . |
| 24 | One of the reasons for this preference may be that I first came to know it at Windrush . |
| 25 | He sent her a copy of Madame Bovary ( she thanked him , pronounced the novel ‘ hideous ’ , and quoted at him Philip James Bailey , author of Festus , on the writer 's duty to give moral instruction to the reader ) ; and forty years after that first meeting in Trouville she came to visit him at Croisset . |
| 26 | When my mother and a friend came to visit me at Wolverton I brought them to Cambridge and , with the confidence of inexperience , I took them punting on the river . |
| 27 | It was quite unheard of in the Army for such a small unit to have its own self-designed insignia , but some months later Stirling , quite undismayed , wore his cap badge on parade when General Auchinleck came to inspect them at Kabrit . |
| 28 | If you want a Rolls Royce , you should n't expect to buy it at Volkswagen prices . ’ |
| 29 | However , there was concern for the two survivors aboard the lifeboat , who were severely seasick , and an attempt was made to land them at St Abbs . |
| 30 | I thought you said she 'd to cash it at Barclay . |