Example sentences of "[vb pp] [pron] at [art] " in BNC.

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1 It 's given everyone at the club a lift . ’
2 Against the advice given me at the Centre , quite deliberately I decided to have neither a counsellor nor a healer .
3 Their one hundred and fifty ton heavy life crane would have coped with that job easily enough but I hastily declined his offer which , apart from any other consideration would have placed me at a slight disadvantage .
4 It was as though he had joined them at the table , and it was n't doing D'Arcy 's appetite any good at all .
5 The wedding , planned for November … ’ ) she had learned that she was the goddaughter of Lady Bartlett ( that mother of sons … ) and had joined them at the end of July .
6 I turned to find that a girl had joined me at the bar .
7 We would have expected them at the beginning , and as we are still at the beginning , they ought to be here .
8 You 've caught me at a very late lunch .
9 As time and cost constraints make extensive physical experimentation increasingly difficult to justify , the transport sector has installed itself at the forefront of the model revolution .
10 ‘ Oh — have I caught you at a bad time , dear ? ’
11 ‘ I 've obviously caught you at a bad moment .
12 Rangers , though , deserved some fortune because they had enjoyed none at the other end .
13 The VPP500 system features a series of 1.6 GigaFLOPS vector processors , in parallel configurations of from seven to 222 , offering performances of 11.2 to 355 GFLOPS — the nodes can be added one at a time .
14 If anaphors were to be resolved one at a time and left to right , nothing would yet have been done about ‘ him ’ , so the configurational contribution would be missed and reasoning would be inevitable .
15 This suggested they had been attacked one at a time , and taken by surprise , which reinforced the verdict that two and not four men were involved .
16 If , unusually , there is no time pressure , the targets can be approached one at a time in order of their relative attractiveness .
17 Dawn Allenby , a masochist if ever there was one , should have prostrated herself at the feet of Desmond Fairchild , a sadist in a trilby hat worn with the brim turned up all the way round like vaudeville comic .
18 Her mother had telephoned her at the nurses ' home where she had been living and had asked her if she could come home .
19 Er I should have reminded everybody at the beginning , when you wish when you start to speak , would you please introduce yourself , give your name and who you represent .
20 Beryl 's words had impressed him at the time because they summed up his own vague feeling that what had happened and what was happening might be consequences of the old man 's cynical , even malicious contrivings .
21 A kindly lorry driver on his way to North Wales , chatting of his own daughter and his home , had dropped her at the roundabout at the top of the Banbury Road at about lunch-time .
22 Could I have caught him at a bad moment , could he have mellowed , I could n't believe it .
23 This had dropped him at a garage in Cromcruach and had then mysteriously vanished before he could offer his thanks .
24 This E S R D really is the bible and we have specified the aircraft to meet that E S R D and not anything extra , er obviously if one of the four nations wants to build a nuclear role into the aircraft that becomes a very big political question first and foremost and we have just not considered it at the technical level at all because it 's er it 's not in the requirement .
25 ( e ) the vulnerability or otherwise of the target 's board ( the offeror will particularly focus on the board 's achievements and also on any areas where individual directors could be said to have advantaged themselves at the expense of the company ( eg golden parachute arrangements ( see para 18.5.12 below ) ) ;
26 You take me away for the weekend and then come back and act as if you 've just met me at a friend 's house for the first time !
27 One glimmer of hope though , tonight police say that someone who knows the couple claims to have seen them at a garden centre in herefordshire .
28 I 've seen them at the shop , paying their bills .
29 He recognised Kurz and Hinterstoisser , he 'd seen them at the hotel ; strikingly handsome fellows , especially Kurz , an officer of the Wehrmacht , blue-eyed , blond-haired .
30 He had seen them at the County Show , where he had gone for the rabbits , all those girls with plaits and scrubbed faces and clean gloves , doing an exhibition ride .
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