Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] at " in BNC.
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| 1 | There was another one came in with a little bit of a strain yesterday morning , so what 've done this morning , we 've just had a collective training session and we 've told them to report at quarter to eleven in the morning . |
| 2 | At present , everything that Hewlett-Packard is doing looks right : it has won itself a reputation of taking better care of its customers , an example being the way it is not forcing its MPE users to move to Unix , instead letting them migrate at their own pace . |
| 3 | I could not see my mother sine she had got herself well hidden behind my father so I rushed to the house , through the open french windows , saw my wife sideways on to me gazing at a blank wall and screamed , " See what 's happening — our baby to be plastered over half of some alien landscape ! |
| 4 | I told my Mum that I had a headache so she let me stay at home . |
| 5 | That first day at school depressed me , and during the next few days I begged my parents to let me stay at home , which of course was out of the question . |
| 6 | If you see prepared hyacinths still on sale , do n't expect them to flower at Christmas — it 's too late . |
| 7 | It stopped them reacting violently because it stopped them reacting at all . ’ |
| 8 | Some of these girls whose families have come from rural areas in Azad Kashmir or Mirpur feel that their parents allow them to go to school only because in Britain it would be illegal for them to remain at home . |
| 9 | To create an even greater homogeneity we excluded also all those who were doubly incontinent at referral ( since we know that the project found such people very hard to support ; see Chapter Seven ) , and all those whose condition — either mental or physical — was deemed too poor at referral for them to remain at home at all . |
| 10 | Hughes removed Desmond Haynes , Phil Simmons and Richie Richardson in the last session , leaving them struggling at 62-3 . |
| 11 | Day after day many of them sit at desks confined by four walls , their eyes glued to figures , their minds hassled by the problems of business . |
| 12 | Each source contributed to the attempt to understand what dementia sufferers needed in order to help them stay at home . |
| 13 | They invited them to sit at a table and were joined by an unusually tall , thin man who was extraordinarily blonde for his age which was thirty to thirtyfive . |
| 14 | Like a host in some cheerful tavern , he told them to tether their horses and ushered them in , asking them to sit at the table and wait while he finished his business in his own secret chamber . |
| 15 | There were big baskets of flowers everywhere and waitresses were giving everyone sparkly drinks and asking them to sit at long tables in the dining room . |
| 16 | When at last he placed the phone down he turned and gazed at Joe , saying in a bewildered tone , ‘ It 's Harry ; they … they want me to go at once . ’ |
| 17 | " He has never asked me to go at this time of night before , " she whispered . |
| 18 | As none of the Company 's depôts was yet ready , they pleaded that they had nowhere to put them and after discussion , the Corporation agreed to let them remain at Thornton Heath until their own new cars arrived , provided that they were permitted to use them in service on their main line , to compensate for the mileage worked by Corporation cars in Penge . |
| 19 | The truth is that as painters and as a man and a woman , they were engaged , during these years , in the same adventure which turned out to be more fatal than either of them realised at the time . |
| 20 | It fulfilled none of my expectations and seemed to be merely trying to make me laugh at the fact that it had left me standing there grasping at nothing . |
| 21 | Although Jeff making me laugh at myself was the beginning of the end of my depression , it was n't enough to persuade me to stay . |
| 22 | Peter does n't make me laugh at all . |
| 23 | RECENTLY , 12 WOMEN who accused Barclays Bank of sex discrimination for forcing them to retire at 60 have won a total of £160,000 , and their jobs back . |
| 24 | The coach wrenched forwards , the spurred boot of the trooper next them stabbed at his horse 's side , blood spurted and red drops hit the window . |
| 25 | This line of thinking , however , seems to me to miss at least one major point . |
| 26 | At the time I was of the same colouring ( there 's a portrait of me hanging at Burpham ) . |
| 27 | The professor 's secretary , who is wearing fluffy aquamarine slippers , asks me to wait at the end of a blank corridor . |
| 28 | For example , a survey of 1,800 working women in France might show that 38% read at least one magazine weekly , and a similar survey in West Germany of 940 working women showed that 47% of them read at least one magazine weekly . |
| 29 | Much of the writing about television fiction seems to me to remain at the level of elementary genres , grounded in the dominance of the semantic aspect , with relatively little analytic or historical attention to the ‘ verbal ’ ( style , mise-en-scene ) or the ‘ syntactic ’ ( narrative structure ) : there is very little close textual analysis of television fiction , and there is no scholarly history of the development of television form to compare with the histories which have emerged of early cinema . |
| 30 | I thought it particularly nice of them to write at such length , as I had mistakenly called Roy Griffiths Mister ! |