Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] [verb] [pron] at the " in BNC.

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1 She plans to launch her own designer clothes label but that is one area where her younger sister has pipped her at the post .
2 The tigress was undoubtedly familiar with every foot of the ground , and not having had an opportunity of killing me at the rocks — and her chance of bagging me at the first hairpin bend having been spoilt by the kakar — she was probably now making her way through the dense undergrowth to try to intercept me at the second bend .
3 ‘ His agent came to see us at the St Louis Lollapalooza show , and we talked about the possibility of doing something together .
4 This was pronounced with a kind of funereal satisfaction , and for a moment Jackson could imagine the remorseless gossip that someone else 's tragedy had afforded her at the time .
5 I 'm the female lead , the hero has to get me at the end .
6 As time and cost constraints make extensive physical experimentation increasingly difficult to justify , the transport sector has installed itself at the forefront of the model revolution .
7 I turned to find that a girl had joined me at the bar .
8 Now imagine that instead of sitting behind his desk your boss had met you at the door and ushered you to a seat , then pulled up a chair next to you .
9 Margaret Jones claims her husband tried to murder her at the family home in Brockhampton , by pumping exhaust fumes from the garage into her bedroom .
10 Daddy has to leave it at the garage .
11 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 .
12 Highly ambitious , but not a high achiever , Modesty and a lack of confidence have kept her at the Post Office ‘ instead of earning twice as much as Lord Hanson ’ .
13 One god suggested placing it at the top of the highest mountain ; another on the farthest star .
14 Yet Mr Subirachs 's sculptures for the cathedral have placed him at the centre of a storm .
15 However , it seemed the news that a low-class woman had presented herself at the back door alerted Master Jobbernole to the possible reason for her presence and its consequences .
16 She got the reel of film through customs without any trouble , and a man came to collect it at the hotel .
17 No industrialist liked to put himself at the mercy of creditors .
18 For reasons linked to the physical strength needed to operate them at the beginning , spinning mules were operated by men .
19 Tight in his hand he held the silver coin that Dad had given him at the front door .
20 When I asked Lee what 's going on , he told me this guy had met him at the airport and that he had a letter and had said he 'd caddied for Henry Cotton .
21 The Cheyney brothers were notable in Anglo-Italian society of the 1820s and 1830s , and were especially connected with Rome , where their mother had established herself at the Palazzo Sciarra .
22 Her mother had telephoned her at the nurses ' home where she had been living and had asked her if she could come home .
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