Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] at the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Do n't throw them at the windows . |
| 2 | Cos you will throw them at the back of the box instead of lining them up . |
| 3 | ‘ It will please the Colonel to see them at the breakfast-table in the morning , ’ I-said . |
| 4 | ‘ You 've got chilblains ! ’ their mother said when she came to see them at the beginning of December . |
| 5 | I was still more surprised when some of their parents arrived in motor cars to see them at the weekend |
| 6 | The public would still pay to see them at the cinema . |
| 7 | ‘ I 've to see them at the bank shortly — there 's that Buttering to be fixed , and no money for it wi'out they 'll give me a loan . ’ |
| 8 | to see them at the Dinosaurs Alive and then they went to the museum . |
| 9 | I could tell Gillian and Stuart were n't thrilled to see me at the airport . |
| 10 | So er I thought a alright then , so I I went off like and I just heard erm and said , I went up to see her mother like and , I told her mother about it , like and that and erm her mother says different now , that she came round to see me at the time to tell , to give me a telling off like over her friend . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | ‘ I shall be seeing them at the weekend . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ Hopefully your bloodhounds will be able to run the truants down before Sunday , in which case I 'd appreciate your contacting me at the hotel . ’ |
| 14 | Then he took the stones from their pouch and laid them at the bottom of the Bowl . |
| 15 | And er I remembering Dad , once he bought a cherry tree , and went up to get all these here cherries off the trees , and when we got them we used to wipe them and put them in a bag , and sell them at the fairs . |
| 16 | It 's given everyone at the club a lift . ’ |
| 17 | ‘ He met me at the station … ’ |
| 18 | Rich and Syb met me at the station . |
| 19 | I had supposed that Aunt Louise would be in bed , but she met me at the door ; opened it , in fact , and held it ready for me to come in , because there was something she was bursting to tell me : ‘ I 'm not staying in this cold place a day longer . ’ |
| 20 | My faithful driver , Murphy , met me at the gate , taking my bags and walking me past the vagrants and money changers to his car , an old American model that had become something of a collector 's item . |
| 21 | Ken met me at the entrance and guided me into a side room . |
| 22 | On the appointed Saturday in October , Micky met me at the railway station and drove me ( in a fairly elderly Morris Oxford with a canvas hood ) right down the High as far as the University Church , and there he parked ( no problem then ) . |
| 23 | He met them at the gate and was smiling . |
| 24 | His Lordship Monboddo , wearing a little round hat and a farmer 's suit , met them at the gate . |
| 25 | And er also many engineers when they were out their time , they went to Glasgow and for a few years , he , everybody who went from Galashiels , word got through to him and he met them at the station and got them settled in their digs in Glasgow . |
| 26 | Although the other judges would not look at the assessors ' lists , Burn met them at the hall and compared his list of preferences to theirs . |
| 27 | He met them at the gates of the airfield ( still a debris of contractors ' equipment surrounded by barbed wire ) and informed them gravely that if they entered — no difficult matter — they would be breaking the law . |
| 28 | This , of course , did not affect me at the time ! |
| 29 | The disorder that had seemed to him for decades to determine the course of events regrouped itself like a pile of iron filings suddenly organized by a magnet , and he had a flash of optimism when it appeared quite possible that men in the days to come might wish to find out more than concerned them at the moment . |
| 30 | If you want to keep the existing pipes ( perhaps using a tap adaptor ) , use a bath/basin spanner to disconnect them at the top . |