Example sentences of "[pron] [to-vb] [pron] at " in BNC.
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| 1 | We allowed them to see us at our most absurd . |
| 2 | I was anxious to settle the terms of the contract with M. Chaillot and , because I wanted to avoid being cornered by him in Passy , I suggested to Jean-Claude that he make an appointment for me to see him at the radio , mid-morning , on a date when I had a luncheon appointment . |
| 3 | What 's probably happening is that you are trying to tell them you are annoyed but also saying you still want them to like you at the same time . |
| 4 | Crilly tells me to meet him at the Hope and Vixen in half an hour . |
| 5 | He tells me to meet him at the magistrates ' court the following morning , tells me to keep away from the scumbags . |
| 6 | Deborah invited me to meet her at home in North London , and mentioned on the phone that her mum , Elaine , would like to meet me too . |
| 7 | ‘ Well , at least you 'll have someone to meet you at Euston , ’ Rose said softly to Maggie who already knew that she would be met . |
| 8 | All we we 've agreed that we 're going to need someone to control it at the next fair . |
| 9 | I 'd like tomorrow to be the happiest day of her life , with nothing to mar it at all . |
| 10 | In poetry such a transport is evoked by a pattern of words ( selected by the poet perhaps with the most intense thought and effort ) , which stabilizes it and allows me to evaluate it at leisure . |
| 11 | They are fed in onto this global trunk circuit erm from many feeder lines , sometimes by radio , sometimes by telephone , but they get in onto the very high-speed trunk circuit , and of those eight and half thousand observations made every hour , it takes between four and five minutes for six and half thousand of them to reach us at Bracknell . |
| 12 | I stayed with Plowman , the Consul , and his wife : they had been in Addis Ababa for the coronation and had invited me to visit them at Harar . |
| 13 | Then say this one should recover his losses , and that he owes it to himself to let us at least do that for him . |
| 14 | If the tone was a little condescending she did not complain ; it was startling enough that he had brought himself to say it at all , and so he must have felt , for he coloured to the brows . |
| 15 | but we 're not allowed to put posters on the walls you know , it 's better for them to stick them at |
| 16 | You can not ask me to help you at one moment , and leave me out in the cold the next . ’ |
| 17 | Very good of you to see me at such short notice . ’ |
| 18 | ‘ I thought my secretary told you to meet me at the house in Edinburgh ? |
| 19 | It is not necessary for you to meet him at the moment — in fact , he is not here right at this moment — but you may use the telephone . |
| 20 | I advise you to keep him at a distance until you are married . ’ |
| 21 | ‘ I 'm sure what I say is quite unnecessary — but they might , you know , sympathetic looks and so on — I 'd like you to keep them at a distance . ’ |
| 22 | I 'd like you to contact him at once . ’ |
| 23 | It 's easy for you to have it at the theatre , mhm |
| 24 | Apparently he 'd fixed up with the travel agency which handled Dalgety 's bookings for you to join him at all the Grands Prix . ’ |
| 25 | But that 's what I want tomorrow morning we 'll be looking at your preparation tonight on your call and I want I want you to tell me at the end of each why you chose the route you chose right ? |
| 26 | ‘ Then tomorrow , you can take it down to the oven and tell them to put it at the bottom , so it -cooks really slowly , to keep it moist . ’ |
| 27 | She justified her departure on the grounds that , with arrangements for Maurice 's funeral on Monday now in place , there was nothing to detain her at Swans ' Meadow . |
| 28 | Although Johnson twice found the hillocky little town lacking — ‘ At night we came to Bamff [ sic ] , where I remember nothing that particularly claimed my attention ’ ; and ‘ Finding nothing to detain us at Bamff , we set out in the morning ’ — he yet managed to write a short exercise in observation of Scottish small borough architecture . |
| 29 | There 's no one to help me at the moment , Léonie added : so I have to get all the china out of the bonnetière all by myself . |
| 30 | They do everything to put me at ease . |