Example sentences of "[to-vb] [pron] at [adj] " in BNC.
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| 31 | He he said you 're one person I can talk to , you listen to me and I can talk to you and er he did n't want to worry you at that time but for him , he did n't think he was suitable . |
| 32 | ‘ You must be Mr Sachs , what a pleasure it is to meet you at last . ’ |
| 33 | It 's good to meet you at last . |
| 34 | ‘ Paige , how lovely to meet you at last , ’ Rose McKenna pronounced warmly , holding out her hands so that Paige had to place hers in them , and was drawn down to have a kiss pressed to either cheek . |
| 35 | ‘ I do not want to know you at all , Monsieur Lemarchand , ’ she stated firmly . |
| 36 | They do n't want to know you at any other time … but most of them are n't like that here . |
| 37 | He had told his informant to meet him at nine o'clock . |
| 38 | All we know is that Nicola was due to meet him at nine o'clock and that he did n't turn up . |
| 39 | I 'm glad to meet him at last . ’ |
| 40 | He CALLED twice at the station — only to be sent away with a flea in his ear — and LEFT his name and company address so detectives knew where to find him at all times . |
| 41 | You see , I did n't know her for long and it was a privilege to meet her at all . |
| 42 | And I hardly got to know him at all . |
| 43 | Maria was silent , digesting it , slightly incredulous but forced to accept it at last . |
| 44 | Whilst a through understanding of AI is not required they should have a little background since all are likely to meet it at one time or another . |
| 45 | ‘ We want to see proper education and we have said we will put a penny on income tax to provide it at all levels from the age of three upwards . ’ |
| 46 | Some people discover this element of themselves while still very young ; others come to it at a much later stage in their lives — and others never manage to find it at all . |
| 47 | Experience may help you take some of these into account but if you went for a fixed fee you may have to pitch it at such a level to allow for these that it 's perhaps twice what it might be and you could lose the client . |
| 48 | Those who had no qualifications and no regular occupation were also more likely to have little family support , and to find themselves at eighteen or younger , living on state benefits in lodgings , single bedsits , or flats shared with other young people . |
| 49 | Be warned though , it does n't work on all PC speakers — there are one or two in the office that emit a sound of some sort , but so quietly that you need a hearing aid to catch anything at all . |
| 50 | … trying to insinuate oneself at any price into the families of the older European dynasties . |
| 51 | The second defect is that the suggestion is too strong and is likely to make it impossible for any of us to know anything at all . |
| 52 | And it is not possible for us to know anything at all about him unless he is generous enough to disclose himself Another book in this series has tackled the question of revelation ; suffice it to say at this point that without revelation we can not say anything about the Lord who is Spirit . |
| 53 | Indeed , she walked so far and so long that she was too tired to write anything at all upon her return and did not in fact send a reply until the following day . |
| 54 | You were going to sell them at one and tuppence each . |
| 55 | Since a rise in interest rates can cause quite a severe fall in the price of bonds , banks could make a considerable capital loss if they were forced to sell them at such times . |
| 56 | As vesting day , 1 April 1948 , approached , the shape of the organisations which were to take over the industry , and the men who were going to lead them at national and regional level were known . |
| 57 | ‘ Why should you bother to remember me at all — except unpleasantly ? ’ she murmured . |
| 58 | Now , five years later , the battles are won ( significant skirmishes remain , but it would be unwise and ungenerous to detail them at this point ) . |
| 59 | Once or twice she re-issued her invitation to the Carrows to visit them at Four Winds , but it seemed that there were always perfectly valid reasons why they could not accept . |
| 60 | She was Smallfry 's mam , but she never , ever came to visit them at Old Ashfield . |