Example sentences of "[to-vb] [pron] at the " in BNC.
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| 31 | I do n't know if any of you have ever been to Newcastle before — if not , I 'd be happy to meet you at the station , or wherever , ( as long as it 's not too early in the morning ! ! ) , take you for a drink , and show you how to get to the ground . |
| 32 | The man at the top leaves go once you 've got it well resting on the ladder and he runs down the stairs to meet you at the bottom by which time you 've got to the bottom rung , he comes takes one side of the wardrobe , you take the other and that 's all there is to it . |
| 33 | ‘ I never dreamed I 'd come back to find you at the head of a company . |
| 34 | ‘ 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 . |
| 35 | The next day Mr Foggerty told the four boys to meet him at the Town baths after school . |
| 36 | It is not necessary for you to meet him at the moment — in fact , he is not here right at this moment — but you may use the telephone . |
| 37 | We were to meet him at the airport , and when we were making all the arrangements with him on the phone , he said , ‘ Are you sure you 'll be able to recognize me ? ’ |
| 38 | Kate had decided to skip the afternoon 's classes and arranged to meet him at the boatyard near the Tech . |
| 39 | The fact that the Prime Minister of Great Britain had twice flown to Germany to intercede with him , and on the third occasion had hurried across Europe with the heads of the French and Italian Governments to meet him at the shortest possible notice , constituted a personal triumph for Hitler . |
| 40 | ‘ Nobody 's finding it very easy to meet him at the moment , ’ said Charlotte . |
| 41 | Crilly tells me to meet him at the Hope and Vixen in half an hour . |
| 42 | He tells me to meet him at the magistrates ' court the following morning , tells me to keep away from the scumbags . |
| 43 | We went out to meet him at the airport and Signe hugged him and told him how much she 'd missed him and how she had cooked all his favourite foods for one vast homecoming meal but she had had an urgent phone call about sickness in the family and the dinner had all burned up so now we must eat in a restaurant . |
| 44 | Several months before , he had been almost sleek , thanks to fourteen-mile walks and his wife 's efforts to police him at the table . |
| 45 | Cecil has not won the 2,000 Guineas since Wollow scored in 1976 , but Pursuit of Love is a genuine contender and it will take a convincing performance from either Forest Tiger or Dr Devious in today 's Craven Stakes to displace him at the head of Ladbrokes ' market — and other firms could well follow suit . |
| 46 | It was four hours later when they woke to find him at the foot of the bed saying : ‘ I 've got a gun and I 'm going to shoot you . ’ |
| 47 | One morning I arrived to find him at the supremely mundane task of " plugging muck " , standing on a manure heap , hurling steaming forkfuls on to a cart . |
| 48 | There 's a nurse is in bed and the next thing the nurse wakes up to find him at the bottom of the bed . |
| 49 | I could make it a fairy-tale instead , if I wanted to , Anyway , It 's the capital of the empire ; a courtier starts a liaison with one of the princesses ; the demands she and the impersonate on his time get to be too much , so he secretly has an android made to impersonate him at the endless court rituals and boring receptions ; nobody notices . |
| 50 | As she went she remembered that Angela had promised to meet her at the bus-stop . |
| 51 | His partner had suddenly remembered her brothers were to meet her at the door and take her home ( an old trick , this ) . |
| 52 | She 's a friend of Bertice Reading , who is working at the Prince of Wales Theatre , so I arranged to meet her at the stage door at 2 o'clock . |
| 53 | My sister 's job was to meet her at the bus stop with the wheel basket so she did n't have to carry it up the road . |
| 54 | It never was when she invited him to meet her at the flat ; she was keeping him and Stock out of each other 's way . |
| 55 | He might even have been planning to meet her at the restaurant direct … |
| 56 | She ignores me , whining about how he was supposed to meet her at the Bullet 's Head . |
| 57 | We fall asleep instantly and do not wake until five-thirty when Crilly 's sister Megan phones , instructing us to meet her at the hospital . |
| 58 | On the morning of the day when Therese Aschmann was due to arrive in Hochhauser , Willi spent a long time getting ready before he went to meet her at the station . |
| 59 | I have to meet her at the airport . ’ |
| 60 | Athelstan rubbed his chin with the palm of his hand and remembered he 'd promised Benedicta to meet her at the Fleet prison where Simon the carpenter would spend his last evening on earth . |