Example sentences of "[pers pn] at the [noun sg] ['s] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Try to relate the interim end-result of everything you do , decide or say to the overall profitable contribution expected of you at the year 's end . |
| 2 | " When I first saw you at the governor 's reception I thought you seemed … unhappy . " |
| 3 | Standing there beside him at the water 's edge , she looked down at his reflection , next to her own in the still , clear water . |
| 4 | ‘ Well , I was n't entirely open with him at the Archdeacon 's meeting . |
| 5 | They would be waiting for him at the train 's next scheduled stop , the guard would see to that . |
| 6 | For an instant , too , a detached sense of pity welled up inside him at the body 's seeming frailty in the face of its task ; could the slight , sloping shoulders carry the heavy burdens of leadership , the thin arms and bony wrists hold a long steady course ? |
| 7 | I saw her at the butcher 's this morning . |
| 8 | She ignores me , whining about how he was supposed to meet her at the Bullet 's Head . |
| 9 | They probably did it at the policeman 's ball . |
| 10 | Section 123(1) of the Insolvency Act 1986 provides that a company is deemed unable to pay its debts if a creditor ( by assignment or otherwise ) to whom the company is indebted in a sum exceeding £750 then due has served on the company , by leaving it at the company 's registered office , a written demand ( in the prescribed form ) requiring the company to pay the sum so due and the company has for three weeks thereafter neglected to pay the sum or to secure or compound for it to the reasonable satisfaction of the creditor . |
| 11 | As Kopyion walked towards him , Carlson ordered him to stop , aimed his weapon and fired it at the general 's shoulder . |
| 12 | Cookie would be coining it at the greengrocer 's stall , munching fruit and putting on the courtesy act to old ladies . |
| 13 | And now she did what she had promised herself she would do , and lifted her foot and aimed it at the nun 's shin . |
| 14 | ‘ I saw it at the doctor 's on the board — an ’ I wrote it down after last week — I did n't know what else to do . |
| 15 | Can not you see him as well as myself ; Is he not sitting behind me at the bed 's head , to seize upon me for his victim , as soon as I have breathed my last ? ’ |
| 16 | Mail-order firms invariably have an arrangement whereby , if customers are not satisfied with the goods received , they may return them at the firm 's expense without any questions being raised . |
| 17 | The Handbook of Over-the-Counter Medicines compiled by Mike Smith ( Kyle Cathie , £6.99 ) lists all sorts of nasty afflictions , from acne to worms , and what you can buy for them at the chemist 's . |