Example sentences of "[prep] [verb] [pron] at " in BNC.
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| 1 | Turkey , plum pudding , Stilton … typical traditional fare , but from where did they originate and how did the custom for eating them at Christmas arise ? |
| 2 | She told me about seeing you at that nightclub . ’ |
| 3 | A letter to a Front soldier from a citizen of Görlitz in late June or early July 1940 undoubtedly spoke for many in stating that , following the ‘ unimaginably great ’ events which had been seen each week in the newsreels , ‘ we will never be able to thank the Führer and brave army enough for sparing us at home the horrors of war ’ , and that an ‘ immensely great ’ future awaited Germany ‘ in the construction of Europe after the final victory ’ . |
| 4 | Nadirpur spoke to his office in Monaco and left instructions for contacting him at the IAP offices in London . |
| 5 | Do n't blame yourself for that choice ; you had reasons for adopting it at the time . |
| 6 | From here he entered N A L G O and held high office within the Union and many members have to thank for representing them at pay s pay negotiations etcetera . |
| 7 | All in all , it is in no way surprising that Nietzsche should have put them to one side soon after writing them at the turn of the year . |
| 8 | Hayling had introduced Casares-Roach to Walsh after meeting her at a Ford workers ' conference in Benidorm where she had been the translator . |
| 9 | Jamie Hill , prosecuting , said Sigsworth had been admitted as a voluntary patient to St Luke 's Hospital in Middlesbrough after presenting himself at North Ormesby police station . |
| 10 | Well erm erm had a word with erm who was about oh fourth in line in the erm education hierarchy in those days and erm then spoke to who was the Chief Education Officer and er , I think they were a bit erm , bit apprehensive about employing a blind typist because erm it was something that they had never had any experience of but in the end they thought it was worth a try and er especially after supporting me at the College and erm also perhaps they had in mind that many of the erm employees would be leaving if war broke out and erm , in fact by that time war had probably started |
| 11 | He says that he shot it down , after chasing it at low level . |
| 12 | A GAMES player shot his lodger after beating him at chess . |
| 13 | CUSTOMERS who spent four hours haggling with a double glazing salesman may sue after beating him at his own game . |
| 14 | Erm , the kit that these boys are wearing is a number of years old , and therefore we are going to need think about replacing it at the end of this season . |
| 15 | She had accepted that he had had grounds for dismissing her at the time , considering the state of that little radio station 's finances . |
| 16 | He had the faculty of meeting everyone on the level , and Father had a story of seeing him at a political meeting , which he was probably chairing , walking arm in arm with the Grand Old Man himself , both talking . |
| 17 | Similarly , we could postulate some alien being capable of seeing nothing at all in the range of wavelengths we call ‘ light ’ but able to see a whole range of colours in the ultraviolet or infrared . |
| 18 | She thought of ringing him on the off chance of catching him at the flat , but shelved the possibility as unlikely . |
| 19 | It was all a question of catching it at the right angle . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | Dewey , as is well known , divided knowledge into tens so that he could employ decimal notation ; when a particular subject turned out to have more than nine facets he had to group them together , often at the expense of logic , and if a new facet arrived in-conveniently there was no way of including it at an appropriate place in the hierarchy . |
| 22 | The Padre , consulted as to the propriety of firing them at the enemy , had given his opinion that they could perfectly well be fired and that they , or any other such popish or Tractarian objects , would very likely wreak terrible havoc . |
| 23 | Accounting for the use of this form in any context will always imply relating the particular meaning actualized in the context to the permanent potential significate postulated for it in tongue , and will consequently involve : ( 1 ) showing that the common denominator of a before/after sequence is present ( the constant element evoked by to ) , and ( 2 ) showing how the speaker has fit the particular experience he is talking about into this potential by intercepting the operation of actualizing it at the appropriate moment ( the variable element expressed by to ) . |
| 24 | Instead of upholding one at the expense of the other , Bachelard offers the possibility of a deconstructive history which would reinscribe that which had been excluded ; this could also enable a differential history of science and ideology , accounting for the perpetuation of ideology after the production of science . |
| 25 | Secondly , as the weights are derived from analysis of individuals there is a serious problem of applying them at the level of wards or districts where the information is readily available only in aggregate . |
| 26 | Examples of underpresenting lots at Sotheby 's included lot 9 , ‘ Three figures at a table ’ by a follower of Caravaggio , which found its own price at £105,000 ( $168,000 , est. £20,000–30,000 ) ; lot 12 ‘ Christ in the house of Martha and Mary ’ by Vasari , ‘ the cheapest Vasari I 've ever seen ’ , was one comment , which made £9,000 ( $14,400 ) ; and lot 92 , ‘ The Annunciation ’ , a late work by Procaccini which made £92,000 ( $147,200 , est. £20,000–30,000 ) . |
| 27 | But for everyone there is a better way of expressing yourself at work or in complaining at the garage , for instance . |
| 28 | There are several reasons for this concern with dementia sufferers and with finding ways of sustaining them at home . |
| 29 | Both men also received annuities of 1,000 marks , which went some considerable way towards endowing them at a level appropriate to their rank . |
| 30 | There 's no mathematical way of defining it at that point . |