Example sentences of "[vb infin] [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 | This , of course , did not affect me at the time ! |
| 4 | He will then answer them at the council meeting . |
| 5 | They can decide which pathways to follow and explore them at the time they ‘ read ’ the document . |
| 6 | We decided to use our green ballot box that we made and painted for the Maastricht campaign for people to post their cards into so that we can count them at the end and post them all together . |
| 7 | Then would having a good head for numbers be the sort of thing that would individuate them at the level of their soul ? |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Sit down on your bottom and I 'll catch you at the bottom , right you ready ? |
| 10 | Onassis invited me — I did n't know him at the time but later we became great friends — and we talked . |
| 11 | Bless Marvin Gaye — but we do n't need him at the moment ! |
| 12 | ‘ We did not know it at the time but the torch we lit in Britain , which transformed our country — the torch of freedom that is now the symbol of our party — became a beacon that has shed its light across the Iron Curtain into the East . |
| 13 | Although we did not know it at the time , the next census figures were to show an over-all drop of more than 11% . |
| 14 | Corman , a young independent producer born of the post-Superior Court ruling when studios were cutting back on their own B-movie productions , did not know it at the time , nor did anyone else , but he was about to make a significant contribution to what later became known as the ‘ new Hollywood ’ through the personalities he gave work to on low budget films , either acting , writing , directing or all three . |
| 15 | Although he did not know it at the time , Hess 's work was to initiate a revolution in geological and geophysical thinking , and ultimately it became the foundation of a major new theory about how continents and oceans are related , and what part volcanoes play in the evolution of the Earth . |
| 16 | I did n't know it at the time , but he had come to prepare us for the move to England . |
| 17 | Though I did n't know it at the time , Lebanon was suffering only the hors d'oeuvre of the devil 's dinner . |
| 18 | ‘ Well , I did n't know it at the time , but the telegraphist on the next set to mine-Lofty , he 's called — was on my wavelength too . |
| 19 | I did not know it at the time , but Helmut knew that Jean-Claude was still seeing Otto . |
| 20 | This was to be a momentous decision although he did not know it at the time . |
| 21 | ‘ I did n't know it at the time . |
| 22 | I did n't know it at the time but a greater blow awaited me A few days later Mrs Rumney was on the phone again . |
| 23 | Of course I did n't know it at the time , but by then my mother and father 's marriage was showing cracks . |
| 24 | You can buy it at the delicatessen in Long Barton , you know . ’ |
| 25 | SO next time you need washing powder , washing up liquid , shampoo , etc. do n't buy it at the supermarket ( they make enough profit already ! ) order it from me ( I order on Sundays to deliver the next Friday ) and LET NCT HAVE THE PROFITS … |
| 26 | O M O V you ca n't buy it at the chemist it is n't a new type of bread for some religious festival it 's not a new cleaning detergent O M O V what is O M O V ? |
| 27 | Did CSM discuss it at the November meeting ? |
| 28 | So I read it and I gave a similar look back and I think I probably said something like that did n't happen or something along those lines , that 's hard to believe that had happened and passed it back to him and then that was it , we did not discuss it at the time … |
| 29 | ‘ They wo n't know us at the station , in London , ’ said Jonathon suddenly . |
| 30 | A system where the user presses a series of buttons without thought and gets exactly what he needs ( rather than what he at that stage thinks he wants ) is efficient but not entirely educational , any more than one so difficult that the user could only throw himself at the mercy of the person sitting at the reader 's adviser desk . |