Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] [pron] at " in BNC.
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| 1 | As she turned to wait for me at the end of the path , I felt I was looking at her for the first time : her face paler than her arms , a blonde shadow on her upper lip , no lipstick . |
| 2 | After attempting to speak to his ex-girl friend on the telephone and finding she was out he decided to have another drink , and then started to think about taking some tablets which his GP had prescribed for him at the time when his girl friend had left him . |
| 3 | ‘ I 'll knock for you at eight for dinner . |
| 4 | When the post of Missioner at Warrington became vacant , he applied for it at the age of 38 , and he remained at Warrington until his retirement thirty years later . |
| 5 | ‘ Here , ’ she says thickly , handing me a joint while she rolls the ice cube round in her mouth and tries to breathe through it at the same time . |
| 6 | At last , when he thought he could wait no longer , he glimpsed Benedicta slip silently up the nave to join the other two members of his congregation , kneeling between them at the entrance to the rood screen . |
| 7 | Judge for yourself at Stanley Central Club on Sunday April 5 or Ayresome Quoits Club , Middlesbrough on Saturday April 11 . |
| 8 | After the winner I rode for him at York . ’ |
| 9 | Sandy then asked me if I 'd like to carry for him at Walton Heath for the Cup . |
| 10 | All change for them at Crewe . |
| 11 | He looks and the bear 's hanging off it at the side , grrr ! on the window and the man goes aargh ! and the man runs off and he gets on he gets on an aeroplane the aeroplane and he 's safe . |
| 12 | I shall only be able to weep for him at night , after Enid has fallen asleep . |
| 13 | Repetitive enough to appeal to Matthew , 4 , who asked for it at bedtime four nights running , and with sophisticated touches appreciated by William , 6 , normally a boy of the He Man persuasion . |
| 14 | I asked for it at the suggestion of my cousin Sarah , who was slightly older than me and whom I greatly admired . |
| 15 | The report on the projected sales for the next quarter , he asked for it at the last meeting , it 's okay . |
| 16 | It means living with the perspective that we are in touch with the Lord Whose Son died so that we might enjoy the sort of life that He planned for us at the beginning of Genesis , and living with that perspective and privilege . |
| 17 | ‘ Shee-it , ’ I said , and felt guilty that I was leaving the island without sharing the chicken dinner that Sarah Straker was doubtless cooking for me at that very moment . |
| 18 | She paused , surprised by the wave of pain and nostalgia that passed through her at the mention of the name , leaving her weak and trembling ; as if the sights , sounds , smells , tastes , feelings , sufferings of years could be experienced again in a single spasm of sickening intensity : the cold cubicle , the rustle of habits and the squeaking of boots as the nuns filed into the chapel , the stink of stew in the refectory ; her first lesson , the children shaking their up-stretched hands , eager to please the new sister ; Hilda , dew-fresh in her white blouse and neatly-pressed gym-slip , shy and ardent in the back row ; Hilda and herself together in the copse , in the chapel , in the cloisters , praying , talking , joking , sharing secrets , confidences … |
| 19 | Then when it " just happens " , spontaneously and romantically , they and their girlfriends hope they do n't get pregnant , or they do n't think about it at all . |
| 20 | It 's not something just to be pushed to one side , and , ‘ Oh , yes , he 's coming at eleven o'clock , so I 'll think about it at five to eleven . ’ |
| 21 | These Orkney parents were neither informed nor consulted about anything at all . |
| 22 | Gassendi adopted it enthusiastically and argued for it at great length . |
| 23 | If she was going to quarrel about it at all she would have to do it seriously . |
| 24 | The sand gets shaken off them at the knockout . ’ |
| 25 | Zach told her his age , which was nine , and spelt out his name , apologizing for it at the same time . |
| 26 | But he never made to go after you at all . |
| 27 | Two days sitting in the plane and fifty bourbons later I had this young born-again advocate holding my hand and praying for me at the top of his voice . |
| 28 | I thought er that God wanted me to be a doctor and I did n't have a place to go to , I took my A levels having had five chances of places to be a doctor and everybody saying no , we do n't want you and erm I had everybody praying for me at church and quite miraculously at the end of the August , when I should start in the September , I had a phone call at half past ten at night from a surgeon at the London Hospital asking me to go for an interview the next day . |
| 29 | Did the union act for you at this particular time then ? |
| 30 | ‘ I did n't fall for him at once , ’ says Hilary . |