Example sentences of "[verb] [indef pn] at [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's given everyone at the club a lift . ’ |
| 2 | I got nothing at the table right . |
| 3 | She was , as well , a woman above reproach , avoiding involvement in all intrigues , keeping everyone at a distance and thus surrounded by universal esteem . |
| 4 | In the words of a single 19-year-old trainee pilot : ‘ In an ideal world you 'd be able to meet someone at a bus-stop , go for a drink , take them home and bonk their brains out — and then go home to your girlfriend for dinner . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ Excuse me , Dudley , I have to meet someone at the station . ’ |
| 6 | It is not a happy precedent and if Mr Major is to avoid it , he needs somebody at the Treasury who commands confidence , and who deserves it . |
| 7 | Brian did not like parties , according to Alix , and had expressed fears that he would know nobody at the Headleands ' , but this was not so , for he had already engaged himself with his habitual courtesy with old Sir Anthony . |
| 8 | The lorry driver , a relief worker from ISC Chemicals in Bristol , came on the wrong day and found nobody at the plant . |
| 9 | Once again , start with the largest flowers and place one at the top and one at the bottom of the design , and then two staggered in the middle . |
| 10 | Simon 's heavy tread moved about upstairs and his voice shouted something at a maid . |
| 11 | He waved and shouted something at the mercer in the street below , then scrambled back onto the ladder again and started to descend . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | The friend found one at a garage . |
| 15 | Instead of upholding one at the expense of the other , Bachelard offers the possibility of a deconstructive history which would reinscribe that which had been excluded ; this could also enable a differential history of science and ideology , accounting for the perpetuation of ideology after the production of science . |
| 16 | You 're eliminating one at a time . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | If , unusually , there is no time pressure , the targets can be approached one at a time in order of their relative attractiveness . |
| 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 | afford nothing at the moment . |
| 21 | He 'll sacrifice nothing at the expense of quality , knowing that the customer will sacrifice him instantly if the quality of his goods or services is poor . |
| 22 | Trippy was meeting somebody at a club down at Camden Lock but he could n't remember who or exactly where . |
| 23 | Yeah , cos like if you 've got three Ss or something then you put one at the bottom of the pack and keep the card if you 've got an |
| 24 | Now what I 'd like you to do is to select two , I told you I 'd be serious in the last part , the whole is here , is select the two pads you like best , please , and put one at the front of the binder and one at the back . |
| 25 | The ‘ pure ’ entrepreneur observes the opportunity to sell something at a price higher than that at which he can buy it . |
| 26 | Moral — only ever remove one at a time so that you can see which way that have to be returned . |
| 27 | At first the books came one at a time . |
| 28 | Well Mrs Toad is having a sale in her shop + + she has laid out her caish + cash register + + an' a number of pots of tea + + it 's gon na be a special sale because + + so she has th' + a sign up saying + prices are slashed + so she hopes lots of customers will be coming along + to visit her + + while she ‘ s waiting for customers + she goes about setting out the rest of + of the shop + + for things in the sale + + an ’ she brings on + large cans of tin + of tea + + for + she can only carry one at a time + so she walks on with one and puts it on the counter + + |
| 29 | Well you know you could do one at the slip |
| 30 | As I hinted parenthetically following the quotation from Clark , it seems perverse for him to insist that we must choose one at the expense of the other . |