Example sentences of "[coord] [verb] [pers pn] at the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the corner of another carriage there sits , his face screened by a magazine , some lonely soul who has no one to bid him adieu at this end of his journey or welcome him at the other . |
| 2 | Do you want to give them now or do it at the end ? |
| 3 | Everything goes fine until , having chosen the number of blend steps ( or leaving it at the default number ) , I click on OK . |
| 4 | Then he took the stones from their pouch and laid them at the bottom of the Bowl . |
| 5 | First , the testator takes a blank piece of paper and signs it at the bottom . |
| 6 | The main duty of the foresters of fee was of course the safe keeping of vert and venison : the Forest rolls show them searching for , arresting and attaching offenders , and indicting them at the Forest Eyre . |
| 7 | When he got there , he pulled an enormous bell-mouthed gun — I imagine it was a blunder-buss — from his belt and levelled it at the monster . |
| 8 | We jumped out and met him at the rear of the vehicle and tried to show him a letter of introduction from the Algerian Ambassador to Britain , Lakhdar Brahimi . |
| 9 | A stout butler led Alexandra across a hall floored in gleaming yellow wood and lined with large dark paintings , and announced her at the drawing-room door . |
| 10 | Deliberately , he lifted the photograph and flung it at the fireplace . |
| 11 | She had drawn her fair hair high into an elaborate plait down the back of her head and fastened it at the bottom with a wide tortoiseshell clasp : it looked distinguished and competent , but nowhere near cuddly . |
| 12 | A university congregates together that type of personality and places it at the disposal of the succeeding generation . |
| 13 | They can decide which pathways to follow and explore them at the time they ‘ read ’ the document . |
| 14 | A Hong Kong-based Scottish engineer and historian , Mr Charles Walker , is behind the scheme to inscribe a gravestone and place it at the spot where Liddell is known to have been buried . |
| 15 | Whenever she washed the windows in one room , she would mark the date down on the card , and place it at the end of the section . |
| 16 | They followed Fiver up the run and overtook him at the entrance . |
| 17 | It would be better to try and beat them at the bottom of the curve rather than when the South Africans were improving . |
| 18 | He took the kettle from its hook above the fire and filled it at the sink . |
| 19 | The tide had n't covered the pebbles yet , so I took up a handful and lobbed them at the bottle . |
| 20 | So I went on into the town , and told them at the castle , and the lord Beringar has set a guard on the place now until daylight . |
| 21 | The trees poise to eject leaves and hurl them at the wind , there is nobody in the big house to see the park 's invasion by the people , the iron benches under the elms are empty , each foot curling into a clutch of leaves . |
| 22 | But what brought her to the point of retaliation was the sight of his hands mauling a plate of sliced mutton , digging his fingers into the pieces of meat and snatching them up and trying to screw them up like pieces of paper and hurl them at the bookcase . |
| 23 | She' took sandwiches and ate them at the school . |
| 24 | Why do n't we take it to some safe place a hundred miles away and dump it at the bottom of the deep blue sea ? ’ |
| 25 | I seemed to remember he had one and put it at the back of one of his chairs , and |
| 26 | Turn the card over and put it at the bottom of the pack |
| 27 | And you can mass type , erm mass headlines , and we do negative type leading and all the rest , but you have to add up that extra descender space and put it at the bottom of the headline . |
| 28 | Tess bravely made a little cross and put it at the head of the grave one evening , when she could enter the churchyard without being seen . |
| 29 | If it is argued that sarvodaya is an unattainable ideal , and that in the end one may have to settle for the happiness or good of 51 per cent , it could be stated in reply , that it is infinitely better to strive for sarvodaya and fail to realize it , than to start out with a limited objective and attain it at the expense of an unfortunate minority . |
| 30 | And finally two Ayr police officers said that a shelved 1969 report showed they had picked up a man ‘ of slight build and a Glasgow accent who said his name was McGuigan or McGuinness ’ some 600 yards from the Ross bungalow in the early hours of the morning of the murder and dropped him at the bus station ; and they now declared from photographs recently shown to them that the man was William McGuinness . |