Example sentences of "[vb past] [pron] [verb] [pron] at a " in BNC.
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| 1 | The orchestra was not playing it in time , so I made them rehearse it at a slower tempo . |
| 2 | After a short chat he invited me to join him at a ‘ small Chinese gathering ’ in the hall usually used for Tong meetings on River Street West . |
| 3 | If you invited him to make one at a dinner-party , you expected him to talk intelligibly ; if he published a volume of poems you expected him to write the sort of thing that the average well-educated man could understand because it came within the orbit of his own experience . |
| 4 | Every time I lifted it to aim it at a target living or not — this moment would be at the back of my mind . |
| 5 | But she knew he had her at a complete disadvantage , and he knew it , too . |