Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] [adv] at the [adj] " in BNC.
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31 | I 'll drop you off at the first station we come to . ’ |
32 | I 'll drop you off at the Jolly Farmer , then you can walk up the hill to get to the school . |
33 | ‘ Emilia , dearest , do you imagine I could abandon you now at the very moment I have longed for ? |
34 | We also asked if we could get the same consultation period because they are breaking it up at the four sites and some sites will get thirty days ' notice others will get the ninety days . |
35 | They have fired this interest by spending £44m on the issue , aiming it primarily at the retail investor when one might expect an issue of this sort to be more suitable for institutions . |
36 | There were seven of us sharing the place , the Carters ' eldest son and his girlfriend having invited themselves along at the last moment , and their movements were completely unpredictable . |
37 | ‘ If you could just drop us off at the first five-star hotel you come to . ’ |
38 | Please do not hesitate to contact me here at the above number if you have any other queries or concerns . |
39 | One person 's hip replacement operation certainly prevents the busy surgeon from doing something else at the same time . |
40 | Whisper it not at the British Heart Foundation , but we knew that , as well as the salt , into that dinner had gone a dozen eggs , a couple of pints of cream , half a pound of butter , a quarter-pound of sugar and about half a pint of Calvados . |
41 | It still ran away from him but he grabbed it again at the second attempt before it went over the line and the chance had gone . |
42 | I decided the only thing to do was throw her in at the deep end and go right down the village high street , where the roads were busiest and noisiest with holiday-makers , and simply stand there trying to calm her down . |
43 | He nearly rang Fred up , but he would be seeing him tomorrow at the first night . |
44 | Lance Buckmaster , our esteemed Minister for External Security has asked me to attend him down at the ancestral home , Tavey Grange on Dartmoor . ’ |
45 | We realise that chucking them in at the deep end is not satisfactory . |
46 | We met Audrey and Margaret on the way , and we saw them again at the next stop , Motueka , 60 miles to the north . |
47 | ‘ For dropping you in at the deep end , before you 'd had a chance to get your bearings … ’ |
48 | ‘ But they will never take you , Don — I will hide you here — no , I will hide you up at the old shieling hut — or we could run away west into Rannoch — ‘ There are forts everywhere . |
49 | Up to then he had never been in front — he was three down with 11 holes to play — but he went one up at the 17th the second time around . |
50 | Any explanation requires description , and it is difficult , or perhaps impossible , to describe something without at the same time explaining it . |
51 | She rubbed her back at the same time ; bending to the floor had hurt her . |
52 | Self-delusion could easily once again cloud the judgment of the shadow cabinet and Labour could go it alone at the next election , perhaps with the same misplaced confidence in a ‘ safety first ’ stance that will deliver success if the dangers inherent in new initiatives are avoided and new ideas anathemised . |
53 | Baltic representatives , for instance , associated themselves closely at the 19th Party Conference with the call for ‘ regional khozraschet' or in practice for republican self-sufficiency . |
54 | He says well I , we were on about sort of and he says bring it up at the next meeting , I says |
55 | But I have a feeling it might be easier to mull it over at the next meeting . |
56 | Although the formwork was quite heavy , we pegged it down at the four corners as a precaution . |
57 | I hope , and I shall be bringing it up at the next police committee , that we will commit ourselves to that initiative will a view to bringing in those two pilot schemes in the county and extending it at a later date . |
58 | I remember that she asked me to guess what was inside a sort of pasty served to her on Thásos , and that I got it right at the first guess : macaroni . |
59 | I would have liked to have heard it again at the second service but Dad made us hurry home . |
60 | When they reached the prison , at Riom , and an official tried to argue that they had no authority to remove the canisters , Jacques Allier took out a pistol and levelled it wordlessly at the bureaucratic face . |