Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] at [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Most country and metropolitan district councils in England and Wales hold definitive maps , and you can ask to see them at council offices or sometimes at the public library . |
| 2 | In addition , some Compact employers may wish to invite parents to visit their premises to see them at work . |
| 3 | ‘ Hello , ’ she said hoarsely , pleased to see them at ease with each other again . |
| 4 | A COUPLE told yesterday of their terror when two escaped convicts kidnapped them at gunpoint . |
| 5 | It is ironic that the present undiscriminating reverence for exotic mysticism risks misunderstanding such beliefs for the opposite reason ; that of accepting them at face value uncritically and out of context . |
| 6 | The police team had gone from her house , she had managed to avoid seeing them at work by her long session with Gabriel and John Coffin in Cat 's Coffee Shop . |
| 7 | The other tribe , however , finds twins fearful , appalling , degrading , an aberration , because you see only animals have litters of young and therefore twins are considered to be inferior , a threat , so much so , in fact , that this latter tribe ritually murders them at birth . |
| 8 | Robin Gurdon , who met them at army headquarters , was to guide the party through the southernmost part of the British lines as they hoped that by skirting the edge of the depression , they would avoid any main concentrations of German troops . |
| 9 | Cos I remember once when they asked me at work to deliver the annual speech you know the man that asked me he says er , you know , they 've gone round everybody else and nobody else would do it and would I do it , and I said good lord , that were my first reaction , and I realized like all the company secretaries lo lord , so I did very well there |
| 10 | Turkey , plum pudding , Stilton … typical traditional fare , but from where did they originate and how did the custom for eating them at Christmas arise ? |
| 11 | many and I 've stopped eating them at Christmas when I brought them and I started eating them again . |
| 12 | Now that I know the genetic formula of my insects , I can reproduce them at will , and I can tell the computer to " evolve " towards them from any arbitrary starting point . |
| 13 | When she realizes that by controlling these cries , and producing them at will rather than automatically , she can influence the behaviour of her parents , she has progressed to the directive function . |
| 14 | Is that how they make them at school darling ? |
| 15 | In the afternoons fishermen in small skiffs laid nets along the low island of reeds which lay between us and the main channel , returning to gather them at night . |
| 16 | Nigel started a kind of evening shift , that you was there with your kids during the day and then your husband got them at night and you come out and worked at nights , so it |
| 17 | Makes it pretty it improves it 's just a mou , you know mouse mat you got them at school . |
| 18 | An , if we fail to support them at home , we 'll only have ourselves to blame . |
| 19 | We made ourselves at home , ate the simple food sent across to us from the refectory and retired to bed . |
| 20 | In the same way we may stress ourselves at work , causing ulcers , backache and nervous breakdowns in the process , but for what ? |
| 21 | Two had left so I visited them at home . |
| 22 | Some people stress the need to protect innocent children from the misuse of adult power ; others see the way forward as one of liberating and empowering children , even if this places them at risk . |
| 23 | However , one major weakness of the study is that by concentrating on advertising as the major culprit , it overlooks the structural changes which media necessarily go through — or do not go through — which themselves place them at risk . |
| 24 | So do find opportunities to play with your child , and also the time , occasionally , to observe him/her at play with other children . |
| 25 | Richard Wiles went to meet them at home . |
| 26 | My gran do n't buy me at Christmas . |
| 27 | ‘ No , it 's not that … he owes me at poker . ’ |
| 28 | Some of the defenders of the domestic load , such as Dennis Bellamy ( chairman of the Yorkshire Board ) , occasionally quoted cost and load data to justify their views , but these were based on such a biased sample of observations that it was difficult for any serious enquirer to accept them at face value . |
| 29 | A DISTRAUGHT mum last night begged her ‘ danger man ’ husband to free their two young children after he snatched them at gunpoint . |
| 30 | A DISTRAUGHT mum last night begged her danger man husband to return their two young children after he snatched them at gunpoint . |