Example sentences of "[adv] [to-vb] [pron] at " in BNC.
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| 1 | Only thirty people were allowed in to see me at one time . |
| 2 | Phone now on or pop in to see them at |
| 3 | If you 're lucky enough to see one at all it will slither off to find a more peaceful rock to sleep under , and since as yet they have n't organised themselves into packs , roaming around looking for people to bite , we can safely say that there 's nothing you will encounter that threatens humans in any way . |
| 4 | A great big THANK YOU to all of the Clothes Show Live visitors that popped along to see us at the N.E.C. |
| 5 | Molly had the same feeling of doom she remembered when her father wrote to say he 'd be coming down to see her at school and would take her out to tea , so she could meet a ‘ new friend ’ . |
| 6 | I thought Father was down to see you at Christmas . ’ |
| 7 | A talkative Bruce Willis dropped me outside the London flat fifteen minutes later ( you can assess the situation on the way upstairs ) , and Kenneth came down to meet me at the door . |
| 8 | ‘ The money we 'll get for the house , if we 're lucky enough to sell it at a good price , will just about pay the bills . ’ |
| 9 | Callinicos , defence of Marxism is erudite and compelling , and the fact that he runs out of steam over post-war art is of less moment than the fact that he takes the range of issues seriously enough to discuss them at all . |
| 10 | The problem that exists is that factions of governors who are members of the European Central Bank and who disagree with its policies may join together to frustrate them at the national level . |
| 11 | I remember because in nineteen thirty eight , er we were scheduled to have an opening in about the September and we got a team coming down to play us at football and we were going to have a social evening , darts and that , at , in the evening and of course at that particular time , the war was a definite threat . |
| 12 | Physiologists were then increasingly agreeing that every cellular organism is either a single cell or a cell colony arising from the successive divisions of a single cell , and that two cells come together to form one at fertilization , each having arisen by the division of one cell in the respective parent body . |
| 13 | But chimpanzees do not breed well in captivity , partly because of a long pregnancy and childhood , and trapping them in the wild is expensive and wasteful enough to put them at risk of extinction . |
| 14 | Not bad enough , he judged , for him to stay in bed but bad enough to keep him at home . |
| 15 | Surely the manager could have massaged his ego enough to keep him at the club . |
| 16 | As Nancy slid the first tape into her video machine I settled down to watch her at work , but , throughout , the advice offered me on the screen was interspersed with more from the sofa next to me , where she sat eagerly adding a tumult of tips to those already being relayed . |
| 17 | These are waters which do not , as a rule , produce big bream , for with so many mouths to share the available food there is only enough to maintain them at a low body weight . |
| 18 | It was , said one speaker forgivingly , ‘ better to have him at Lloyds seeking to insure his own cargoes , than at sea seeking cargoes insured by others ’ . |
| 19 | The Princesse stepped in to defend her at every turn . |
| 20 | To Ruth , crouching by Gran , he seemed hugely tall ; but he gazed round like a helpless child , seeming not to see them at first . |
| 21 | Clearly , if I 'm to give my loved one a spade for Christmas , the answer is not to wrap it at all . |
| 22 | At Sussex we actually make a third of the time they spend on the university component of their courses compulsory work in science — that is to say every student does it — so we can actually do something about it practically by looking at our processes of initial training and coming to realise what an important section of the world this is and training teachers accordingly , and not to leave it at that but to continue with erm progressive and planned in-service training of teachers . |
| 23 | At Sussex we actually make a third of the time they spend on the university component of their courses compulsory work in science — that is to say every student does it — so we can actually do something about it practically by looking at our processes of initial training and coming to realise what an important section of the world this is and training teachers accordingly , and not to leave it at that but to continue with erm progressive and planned in-service training of teachers . |
| 24 | Some people prefer not to use them at all and remove them . |
| 25 | During the final edit the TV company 's commissioning editor for arts , Waldemar Januszczak decided not to use them at all . |
| 26 | I think it 's unscientific , prejudicial and subjective to use it in a term that carries any kind of recommendation or erm disapprobation and er I think , I think one has to exercise caution in erm in the way you use tha tha that , that term , perhaps it 's better not to , not to use it at all . |
| 27 | She had a terrible urge just to chuck it at Evelyn 's feet and run away , but she knew if she did that there was a chance she might burst into tears . |
| 28 | If they get in if they start getting in the way the best thing to do is just let them relax to the side and try and forget about them , I know it 's difficult to forget about them but just to the conscious effort with the hands is just to put them at the side . |
| 29 | I did a touch of Makarova in Romeo and Juliet at that , just to put everyone at his ease . |
| 30 | Mr McBride had taken the money after a nephew advised him not to keep it at home . |