Example sentences of "[adj] [verb] [pers pn] at the " in BNC.

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1 And I was sorry to miss you at the Keppels 's thrash ; I hope that you are recovered ?
2 Negotiations continue but no clear way forward has yet presented itself , the Cooking Centre is zoned for housing and there is little prospect that the Region would be prepared to acquire it at the residential land value — £150,000 .
3 De Gaulle wanted the agricultural settlement but was not prepared to accept it at the price of giving in to the other five and the Commission on the issues of resourcing and budgetary control .
4 The footwells need cutting and rewelding for a V8 , so it would be easier to repair yours at the same time as , if you buy a new bulkhead , it will need chopping and welding just the same .
5 Maradona is not the player he was and Gazza would have found it a lot tougher facing him at the height of his powers in the Eighties when Argentina won the World Cup .
6 ’ These people are willing to do it at the beginning of the night when they 're sober ’ she says .
7 ‘ Nobody 's finding it very easy to meet him at the moment , ’ said Charlotte .
8 ‘ I had a figure to go to and I 'm delighted to get her at the price . ’
9 This year , by some freak of fate , the Mendozas had drawn the O'Briens in the first round , and were due to play them at the latter 's new polo club forty miles away on the first Saturday in December .
10 ‘ This current situation is all that concerns me at the moment .
11 ‘ I was glad to see her at the pictures with you , ’ Anne said .
12 I could tell Gillian and Stuart were n't thrilled to see me at the airport .
13 Jenny was supposed to meet me at the airport . "
14 She ignores me , whining about how he was supposed to meet her at the Bullet 's Head .
15 Are you supposed to press them at the same time ?
16 I thought she was supposed to have him at the beginning of this month .
17 But folded within it was a handwritten note ‘ So good to see you at the library , albeit briefly .
18 It was good to see you at the DoE Green College Sustainability Seminar the other day .
19 You do n't grasp it when you 're young , and if you 're born , obviously as a lot of the population now are , much younger , and have n't really been either touched or involved in a war , it 's very difficult , it 's something which we 've all seen on television , we 've all seen it at the films and you tend if you 're not careful , to pick up the glamorous side of it , you do n't realise I do n't think and in fact I keep saying this — I do n't think you can ever realise what it must be like to be in a battle until you 've actually been there .
20 Claudia accepted his arm round her shoulders as inevitable ; she was far too tired to fight him at the moment .
21 Everything that happens to you has been chosen by your spirit so there must be a reason , even If you are unable to see it at the time .
22 It is more difficult to know whether an animal goes through the experience of at one moment not being able to see a food item , but then being able to see it at the next .
23 I do n't know if any of you have ever been to Newcastle before — if not , I 'd be happy to meet you at the station , or wherever , ( as long as it 's not too early in the morning ! ! ) , take you for a drink , and show you how to get to the ground .
24 Whilst it is necessary to commence with an idea or concept , it is important to evaluate it at the earliest possible time , and thus the procedure is to commence testing by moving briefly into both the analysis and scheming phases .
25 England captains must not do things like that , but they had not been able to sack him at the time because of the provocation he had been under ; now that he had stepped out of line again he gave them a heaven-sent opportunity to administer the axe .
26 He did not know what to do with it , Hailsham being far too busy to read it at the time .
27 She was able to repeat them at the trial of the young man — and he was sentenced to seven years in prison .
28 It was urged , on the one hand , that public opinion was not yet ready for the abolition of capital punishment and that it would be particularly unwise to abolish it at the present time when there was an abnormal amount of robbery with violence .
29 Well if you have bacon now you wo n't be able to have it at the weekend .
30 But I found it too embarrassing to keep suggesting to a fellow professional that he should take time off from his own work to accompany me to functions where he was not able to join me at the dinner table when he got there .
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