Example sentences of "[v-ing] [to-vb] [pron] at " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the afternoons fishermen in small skiffs laid nets along the low island of reeds which lay between us and the main channel , returning to gather them at night . |
| 2 | This man she 's married finally came to his senses , but he was refusing to marry her at one point . |
| 3 | But he went on refusing to say anything at all about what he 'd been doing in Paris . |
| 4 | The shipwrights of Exeter , for example , bound themselves in 1766 not to work for masters who were seeking to employ them at " less wages than have been from time immemorially paid to journeymen shipwrights " , to " deprive " them of " several of their ancient rights and privileges " and to impose longer hours than had been " usual and customary " . |
| 5 | Parent : ‘ He does n't play with them for more than 5 minutes before wanting to throw them at the wall . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ I 'm going to see her at lunch time . ’ |
| 7 | The man was going to meet me at the bottom of Ber Street . |
| 8 | Well , so I 'm going to meet him at Temple Meads and we 're going to set off to the Marquis family abode . |
| 9 | Pointy-Beard simply said that Sunil wanted to see me when he 'd finished eating and we were going to meet him at Shazam 's and did I know it . |
| 10 | You were going to sell them at one and tuppence each . |
| 11 | As vesting day , 1 April 1948 , approached , the shape of the organisations which were to take over the industry , and the men who were going to lead them at national and regional level were known . |
| 12 | Well I hope so anyway because I 'm not going to play erm international football at left back , I 'm going to play it at centre half , so hopefully erm Terry scouts will be watching me . |
| 13 | That was not going to help him at all , even if it made Humber happier . |
| 14 | We 're not going to do it at all if the King loses interest too early . ’ |
| 15 | It begs the question however ; when 's he going to do it at Windsor Park ? |
| 16 | Without meaning there is only suffering , and I was not going to leave it at that . |
| 17 | At first it seemed that Francis was going to leave it at that , the ball in his court , but in fact he was trying to decide which would annoy her most : being kept in the dark about his conversation with Anna or knowing the truth . |
| 18 | I am very , very relieved and obviously taking advice on the next steps because naturally I am not going to leave it at this . ’ |
| 19 | You 're gon na be on the road , the number of miles you do is obviously going to put you at risk , more than somebody who does a third of your miles . |
| 20 | Tears were n't going to solve anything at all . |
| 21 | He was going to kiss me at his sister 's , Meredith thought . |
| 22 | He 's going to cost them at least fifteen quid . |
| 23 | ‘ How long are you going to keep me at a distance ? ’ he rasped . |
| 24 | He said they 'd call at eleven if they were going to call him at all . |
| 25 | But he 's going to watch it at his mothers |
| 26 | I 'm going to get something at the pub on my way home . |
| 27 | ‘ We 're going to get something at Nick 's . |
| 28 | Goreng said , ‘ These men are going to approach one at a time . |
| 29 | No one tells us how we are supposed to deal with death — our own or that of other people — and yet we are all going to face it at some time . |
| 30 | Anyway this particular Monday morning I did n't feel like getting up although my Mam had already shouted : ‘ If he thinks he 's going to have me at his beck and call just to get him his breakfast when he wants , he 's got another think coming . ’ |