Example sentences of "[to-vb] [indef pn] at " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | In the words of a single 19-year-old trainee pilot : ‘ In an ideal world you 'd be able to meet someone at a bus-stop , go for a drink , take them home and bonk their brains out — and then go home to your girlfriend for dinner . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ Excuse me , Dudley , I have to meet someone at the station . ’ |
| 3 | And if the committee of the CICCU be taxed with bringing in someone who did not fit the undergraduates of a university , it might be replied , first that they were desperate to find someone at short notice , and secondly , was it desirable that a missioner should fit the undergraduates ? |
| 4 | " Do you happen to know someone at San Carlos ? " |
| 5 | It is correspondingly harder to find something at which one can point , and say , ‘ This shows you to be wrong ’ . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | The ‘ pure ’ entrepreneur observes the opportunity to sell something at a price higher than that at which he can buy it . |
| 11 | We , and others , recommend that a sample should be obtained after one hour for both routes and are pleased to receive one at all , for it immediately involves the medical microbiologist in the care of the patient , and close cooperation is important . |
| 12 | Do not stand on chairs to reach something at ceiling level . |
| 13 | I retained a friendship for George Brown , although he regarded me with rather dubious approval because of my omission to drink anything at any dinner party . |
| 14 | In many cases they are not able to remember anything at all about the earlier incidents and so all they have are those inner feelings with nothing to counteract them . |
| 15 | McGiven said : ‘ I 'd like to think we 've improved since then , but on his day Le Tissier is virtually unplayable and able to create anything at any time . ’ |
| 16 | It was a good system for everyone except the artist , who was frequently offered a low rate for the job , then had his payment deferred , and sometimes had to battle for months to receive anything at all . |
| 17 | When information technology users are in doubt about what to buy , who to buy it from , and whether or not they can afford it , they are apt to buy nothing at all . |
| 18 | Could it be that Sun Microsystems Inc president Scott McNealy 's voice is being heard this side of the Atlantic , after he reportedly told Novell Inc 's Ray Noorda to fire everyone at Unix System Labs except a handful of marketing guys and the engineers ? |
| 19 | Their first priority to trace everyone at the party — at least forty people some of them gatecrashers . |
| 20 | One of his compulsive gambits was to challenge everyone at the first meeting . |
| 21 | He came in too fast and had to swing to avoid something at the end of his run — the undercarriage collapsed . |
| 22 | If we want to buy anything at the moment we have to borrow the money . |
| 23 | The surprising thing is that Russian companies choose to repatriate anything at all , officially . |
| 24 | If you 're lucky enough to see one at all it will slither off to find a more peaceful rock to sleep under , and since as yet they have n't organised themselves into packs , roaming around looking for people to bite , we can safely say that there 's nothing you will encounter that threatens humans in any way . |
| 25 | We were therefore very disappointed when Ms de Jonghe found she had to cancel everything at practically the last minute . |
| 26 | ‘ The master plan was to put everyone at his ease . ’ |
| 27 | I did a touch of Makarova in Romeo and Juliet at that , just to put everyone at his ease . |
| 28 | It was not unusual for young ladies to do nothing at all ; unless they occupied themselves with Berlin woolwork or the making of shell boxes , there was practically nothing genteel to do . |
| 29 | They begin to assume that their ageing parents are never satisfied , and may eventually conclude that it might be better to do nothing at all for them . |
| 30 | Conclude : ‘ It is better to waste your old age than to do nothing at all with it . ’ |