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

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1 When screening began we agreed to discontinue it at the end of the first year if there were a number of traumatised families .
2 While he was away she never stopped reminding us at the top of her voice that she was n't a five by two .
3 There have been some centres who felt that the American data has justified using it at an early stage .
4 ‘ I expected to see you at the ball last night , Sharpe ! ’
5 If Rohan needed to have a private word with her , why had n't he arranged to see her at the house instead ?
6 She was close enough to the dead man to arrange to meet him at an isolated spot without arousing suspicions .
7 ‘ It reminds me of my dear father one day at Sandwich , ’ she was saying , ‘ when we were picnicking on the sands and we had arranged to meet him at the nineteenth hole .
8 The defendant then made an agreement with the plaintiffs in which ‘ in consideration that the plaintiffs , at the request of the defendant , would deliver to the defendant ’ the cargo of coal , the defendant promised to unload it at a stated rate .
9 His ex-wife Margaret claims he tried to kill her at the family home in Brockhampton .
10 She had n't really expected to see him at the funeral , though she had looked forward to the possibility with unseemly excitement considering the solemnity of the occasion .
11 And he had probably expected to see her at the shop this morning , while she had been waiting impatiently at his office .
12 It is your enthusiasm , dedication and sheer hard work which has placed us at the forefront of our industry .
13 You may need to adjust it at the centre on long pieces since the ends tend to pull rather tightly to start with .
14 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 .
15 She plans to launch her own designer clothes label but that is one area where her younger sister has pipped her at the post .
16 In Wales also Gloucester was expected to set himself at the head of existing officials .
17 In Wales also Gloucester was expected to set himself at the head of existing officials .
18 The Hammers are considering a move for the 31-year-old , but Crosby said : ‘ I would n't consider selling him at the moment . ’
19 If we want to buy anything at the moment we have to borrow the money .
20 If it did not exist , would anyone trouble to invent it at a time when , from the Atlantic to the Urals , socialism in all its manifestations is losing the argument to liberal capitalism ?
21 Daddy has to leave it at the garage .
22 The elder of the two policemen smiled at Sarah but she dropped her eyes and tried to busy herself at the sink .
23 He has raced it at the Nurnburg Ring incorporating a five day trip and intends to explore the delights of this new venture to the utmost .
24 It was awful , he spoke so awkwardly , he always has to say things in a roundabout way , he always has to justify himself at the same time .
25 ‘ Somebody tried to phone her at the flat .
26 Don ? t expect to understand everything at a first reading .
27 But I 've got a lot of time for Tom Clarke , he 's a nice man and it would be absolutely disgusting if anyone tried to dump him at the moment . ’
28 Three-year-old Daniel Hampton was crushed when the 9ft-high and 8ft-wide panel toppled on to him as he tried to climb it at a recreation ground .
29 Margaret Jones claims her husband tried to murder her at the family home in Brockhampton , by pumping exhaust fumes from the garage into her bedroom .
30 As for their laying the birch on my pocket , I compute that my support of Lewis and Brzeska has cost me at the lowest estimate about £20 per year , from one source alone since that regrettable occurrence , since I dared to discern a great sculptor and a great painter in the midst of England 's artistic desolaton .
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