Example sentences of "[prep] [pron] at the " in BNC.

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1 These data were all to hand by early February and he prepared to speak about them at the APS ( American Physical Society ) meeting set for 1 May , sending in an abstract for the announcement of the talk .
2 Jones responded by reminding everyone that the DOE had been funding his work for nearly three years already , that he had positive results ready to publish , that the DOE funding agent had encouraged him to go ahead and that he was due to speak about them at the Spring Meeting of the American Physical Society in Baltimore during 1–4 May .
3 ‘ She 'll want to take a look at those eyes of yours , whether anything can be done about them at the moment or not , and even if it is Boxing Day . ’
4 No , we both like pizzas , but to dream about them at the same time , and he 's screaming out in his sleep , get me a pizza
5 The issue , the point I 'm trying to make is that in talking for all of the bodies , whether I 'm talking about for the council or whether I 'm talking about them at the same time or separately , one thing I 'm not doing is talking from my point of view .
6 Well I was very sad about them at the time and if you may remember , I did say publicly er that I very much hoped the Conservatives would think again and rejoin the Conservative Party .
7 The sand gets shaken off them at the knockout . ’
8 And he added : ‘ I 'm just going to take the ball off them at the back in Italy as I did in England .
9 Add to that a packed lunchtime season , and late-night entertainment in the studio on Fridays and Saturdays , and we think you 'll agree that there 's always something for everyone at the Stephen Joseph Theatre in the Round .
10 I have not described a tenacious battle to secure compensation for a number of distinguished urologists who contracted hepatitis , believedly at a medical banquet , and for whom at the end of the day a moderate degree of compensation was — against considerable odds — secured .
11 When I get out of my train at Victoria and look about me at the other two hundred — mostly strangers , not least so those whose names as early schoolfellows dawn on me when they disappeared , — I sometimes think that one or two of us ought to speak out instead of just voting and making a remark in the complaint book once or twice a year and writing to a newspaper less often .
12 And I was married to a soldier so I did n't have any family round about me at the time so it was it was pretty hard .
13 Form 1A were assigned to Mr R. J. ‘ Bunny ’ Warren for Mathematics and I still have the reports he wrote about me at the time .
14 The emigrants ' discomfort was aggravated by tantalising radio reports of the steaming soup tureens , hot water and clean clothes waiting for them at the reception centre in Hof , West Germany .
15 Two species can be viewed in our special facility for them at the park — the Indian Fruit Bat , which inhabits the rain forests and the smaller Egyptian Fruit Bat which prefers to roost in large colonies in open caves and buildings .
16 ‘ After having been a teacher in my past , my best answer is this : kids always seem to want to learn stuff that 's way to hard for them at the time .
17 There would be no tall good-looking man waiting for them at the Secret Cove and , once there , she found the Place was , indeed , deserted .
18 The gardener was waiting for them at the front door .
19 Various local councillors and moral guardians were waiting for them at the venue , having read local press reports that the Fabs ' travelling show included a rather racy striptease revue .
20 Women have no say in their marriages : often they are married when still babies , or at least by the age of five in a group ceremonial marriage , for youths , held for them at the close of their bachelor hut initiation period .
21 Unfortunately we did n't have room to include the complete rules for war machines and chariots as they appear in the Warhammer rulebook , but you will find a summary for them at the end of the War Machines section .
22 Brussels sprouts , baked potatoes , grated cheese , the variation of vegetables in the summer , a tin of vegetarian steak pudding on Sundays and a piece of fruit afterwards is a monotonous but healthy diet , and I ca n't think of many cheaper ways to feed two children and feel you 're doing your best for them at the same time .
23 They found their parents waiting for them at the top of a wide terrace of marble steps , and the governor 's aide-de-camp conducted them to the reception through a series of lofty , marble-floored chambers forty feet high .
24 The Handbook of Over-the-Counter Medicines compiled by Mike Smith ( Kyle Cathie , £6.99 ) lists all sorts of nasty afflictions , from acne to worms , and what you can buy for them at the chemist 's .
25 Oliver and Tim were waiting for them at the gangway .
26 And the stronger they were , the worse it was for them at the end of the picture .
27 Yeah , and I do n't now but i I mean I 'm certainly in two I 've been since there 's people who 've referred to the fact that they do n't have those members of staff working for them at the optimum days ,
28 ‘ ( 1 ) Where the seller delivers to the buyer a quantity of goods less than he contracted to sell , the buyer may reject them , but if the buyer accepts the goods so delivered he must pay for them at the contract rate .
29 ( 3 ) Where the seller delivers to the buyer a quantity of goods larger than he contracted to sell and the buyer accepts the whole of the goods so delivered he must pay for them at the contract rate .
30 For an hour the guests sat patiently listening ; then everybody got up and , with the air of people who have been thinking of little else for some time , demolished the langoor ( free food ) which was waiting for them at the rear of the house .
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