Example sentences of "[adj] [verb] [pers pn] at the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | De Gaulle wanted the agricultural settlement but was not prepared to accept it at the price of giving in to the other five and the Commission on the issues of resourcing and budgetary control . |
| 2 | Maradona is not the player he was and Gazza would have found it a lot tougher facing him at the height of his powers in the Eighties when Argentina won the World Cup . |
| 3 | ’ These people are willing to do it at the beginning of the night when they 're sober ’ she says . |
| 4 | ‘ Nobody 's finding it very easy to meet him at the moment , ’ said Charlotte . |
| 5 | ‘ I had a figure to go to and I 'm delighted to get her at the price . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ This current situation is all that concerns me at the moment . |
| 7 | I could tell Gillian and Stuart were n't thrilled to see me at the airport . |
| 8 | Jenny was supposed to meet me at the airport . " |
| 9 | She ignores me , whining about how he was supposed to meet her at the Bullet 's Head . |
| 10 | I thought she was supposed to have him at the beginning of this month . |
| 11 | But folded within it was a handwritten note ‘ So good to see you at the library , albeit briefly . |
| 12 | Claudia accepted his arm round her shoulders as inevitable ; she was far too tired to fight him at the moment . |
| 13 | Everything that happens to you has been chosen by your spirit so there must be a reason , even If you are unable to see it at the time . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | England captains must not do things like that , but they had not been able to sack him at the time because of the provocation he had been under ; now that he had stepped out of line again he gave them a heaven-sent opportunity to administer the axe . |
| 16 | He did not know what to do with it , Hailsham being far too busy to read it at the time . |
| 17 | She was able to repeat them at the trial of the young man — and he was sentenced to seven years in prison . |
| 18 | Well if you have bacon now you wo n't be able to have it at the weekend . |
| 19 | But I found it too embarrassing to keep suggesting to a fellow professional that he should take time off from his own work to accompany me to functions where he was not able to join me at the dinner table when he got there . |
| 20 | I remember when I first met you at the house of terror ; what you gave me , all that you gave me . |
| 21 | I remember also the reaction of one or two of Ben 's older contemporaries , Constant Lambert and Patrick Hadley , who were particularly touched by this quartet when they first heard it at the dress rehearsal . |
| 22 | I had been horrified at his scarecrow appearance when I first saw him at the clinic , and when I met him by chance in Tala-Tala I felt so sorry for him that I asked him if he would like to come for dinner . |
| 23 | " When I first saw you at the governor 's reception I thought you seemed … unhappy . " |
| 24 | For ease of reading , it is preferable to add it at the beginning of the file , but anywhere else is acceptable , provided that it is contiguous . |
| 25 | That suited her at the time , it suited the law courts at the time who were the the adjudicators in the case . |
| 26 | ‘ I myself was much too young to question it at the time , but I found out later that there was a good deal of mystery surrounding his death . ’ |
| 27 | We were due to show it at the end of the party and of course … well , you know what happened . |
| 28 | ‘ We will be ready to receive them at the beginning of October . |
| 29 | When they returned , thousands awaited them at the airport with Yamamoto to the fore . |