Example sentences of "[coord] [verb] [pers pn] at the " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the corner of another carriage there sits , his face screened by a magazine , some lonely soul who has no one to bid him adieu at this end of his journey or welcome him at the other . |
| 2 | ‘ He would either go with the victims or meet them at the Macro warehouse in North Acton . |
| 3 | The man heard or sensed him at the last moment and turned with his hands coming up to a fighting stance but Maxim feinted through them and hit him low in the stomach . |
| 4 | Alternately , the Commissioner and his most senior colleagues invite them to Scotland Yard , or visit them at the ALA building nearby . |
| 5 | Do you want to give them now or do it at the end ? |
| 6 | Everything goes fine until , having chosen the number of blend steps ( or leaving it at the default number ) , I click on OK . |
| 7 | Then he took the stones from their pouch and laid them at the bottom of the Bowl . |
| 8 | There was not a needy person among them , for as many as were possessors of lands or houses sold them , and brought the proceeds of what was sold and laid it at the apostles ’ feet ; and distribution was made to each as any had need' ( Acts 4:32 , 34–5 ) . |
| 9 | And Glenn Close 's stubborn and pain-ridden performance as Sunny makes you sad for her and hate her at the same time . |
| 10 | First , the testator takes a blank piece of paper and signs it at the bottom . |
| 11 | The main duty of the foresters of fee was of course the safe keeping of vert and venison : the Forest rolls show them searching for , arresting and attaching offenders , and indicting them at the Forest Eyre . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | When he got there , he pulled an enormous bell-mouthed gun — I imagine it was a blunder-buss — from his belt and levelled it at the monster . |
| 14 | We jumped out and met him at the rear of the vehicle and tried to show him a letter of introduction from the Algerian Ambassador to Britain , Lakhdar Brahimi . |
| 15 | In short , the consumer called the tune and the operators who prospered were those who best identified the needs of the consumers and met them at the right price . |
| 16 | Send us a cartoon or a caricature on the theme of 20th-century Oxford and we 'll publish the best two entries and display them at the Ashmolean . |
| 17 | A stout butler led Alexandra across a hall floored in gleaming yellow wood and lined with large dark paintings , and announced her at the drawing-room door . |
| 18 | Here you are trying to have your cake and eat it at the same time … |
| 19 | I rang Prentice as I could n't think how to put it off any longer , and got him at the second number he 'd left . |
| 20 | Deliberately , he lifted the photograph and flung it at the fireplace . |
| 21 | She had drawn her fair hair high into an elaborate plait down the back of her head and fastened it at the bottom with a wide tortoiseshell clasp : it looked distinguished and competent , but nowhere near cuddly . |
| 22 | I needed to come up with a solution which avoided this overly defined focal point and used it at the same time . |
| 23 | A university congregates together that type of personality and places it at the disposal of the succeeding generation . |
| 24 | The Eskimos of Alaska were collecting amber and trading it at the late summer fair held at Kotzebue on the north-west coast down to recent times . |
| 25 | They can decide which pathways to follow and explore them at the time they ‘ read ’ the document . |
| 26 | A Hong Kong-based Scottish engineer and historian , Mr Charles Walker , is behind the scheme to inscribe a gravestone and place it at the spot where Liddell is known to have been buried . |
| 27 | Whenever she washed the windows in one room , she would mark the date down on the card , and place it at the end of the section . |
| 28 | They followed Fiver up the run and overtook him at the entrance . |
| 29 | ‘ You 're sending it and keeping it at the same time ? ’ |
| 30 | It would be better to try and beat them at the bottom of the curve rather than when the South Africans were improving . |