Example sentences of "[verb] [vb pp] [pron] at the " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is your enthusiasm , dedication and sheer hard work which has placed us at the forefront of our industry . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | She plans to launch her own designer clothes label but that is one area where her younger sister has pipped her at the post . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | ‘ Story of my life , ’ he growls when a red declines to go into a pocket for the simple reason that he has hit it at the wrong angle . |
| 7 | She 'd heard him at the glass door — a double knock , very light . |
| 8 | I 'd met her at the odd party where we 'd chatted and that 's about it . ’ |
| 9 | I suppose the fact that I 'd made it at the age of 14 was important because it meant I would go a long way in athletics . |
| 10 | He asked the old man if he knew Miss Lavant , if he 'd seen her at the fete , in clothes with buttercups on them . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Well Laura and Gemma wanted to make these pasties and she 'd asked me at the weekend and I did n't have the time because I think Irene came down cos I asked Irene whether she 'd looked after , you know I 'm at college until three , and she said yeah I 'll pick them up and er I could n't get her out at then so I promised she could make them so , I said alright you and Gemma make them , anyway they did very well they made them in about fifteen minutes because we had to go and get Emily at four from school , I said hurry up , hurry up put the water in Emily quick stick them together shove them now and put them in the oven |
| 13 | Miranda thought of M. Apéritif last night , and decided she would let him go further when she next saw him , in spite of the lizard darting of his small and oddly hard tongue in the kiss she 'd allowed him at the door of the hotel . |
| 14 | When he 'd left her at the entrance to Newcastle Place the day Pa died she 'd ached with disappointment that she might never see him again . |
| 15 | He 'd left her at the inn without so much as a word , and here he was , calmly indulging his hobby while she 'd had to trek after him . |
| 16 | So somebody had to tell him he 'd left them at the |
| 17 | He must have heard her at the door . |
| 18 | But she did not like to admit the accidental , for if her birth was the effect of chance , so then was her escape ; the same arbitrary law that had produced her might well have blinded her at the most crucial moments of her life , and left her forever desiring , forever missing , never achieving , an eternal misfit . |
| 19 | We would have expected them at the beginning , and as we are still at the beginning , they ought to be here . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | You should have phoned us at the Club . ’ |
| 23 | — as she might have said herself at the time ) . |
| 24 | Wickham suspected he looked dubious because she hurried on : ‘ Oh , I know you 're thinking I might not have noticed him at the bar . |
| 25 | Having met him at the station on 3 December , a Tuesday , we walked back to the Old parsonage , in St Giles 's ( now a hotel ) , where Michael Cullis had pleasant lodgings . |
| 26 | Anyway I realized I 'd have missed you at the Club , so I turned round and set off back . |
| 27 | You must have seen him at the pictures . ‘ |
| 28 | ‘ He would have seen her at the races , ’ I said , smiling . |
| 29 | We 'd have seen her at the window long ago , and got her down . ’ |
| 30 | Oh it was a nice ball that by , shoots and scores , Notts get a second just moments after they might have conceded one at the other end , the referee unimpressed by the penalty claims but the crowd are there , with a really fine piece of finishing by Gary , nine minutes to half time and adds to the one that got in twenty four , and it 's two nil to Notts County against . |