Example sentences of "on [pron] at the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 've got half a dozen billeted on me at the moment . |
| 2 | This one leapt on me at the exact moment that Junior unloosened his arms and thrust himself into his father 's crying : ‘ Daddy , Daddy , I like this nice man . |
| 3 | He called on me at the apartment a few hours before I left for the airport . |
| 4 | ‘ I was so afraid you would be hurt , then I found myself wondering if I could trust David or whether he would walk out on me at the first sign of trouble . ’ |
| 5 | ’ One has to balance these things carefully : they 're capable of erupting if churches are inflicted on them at the rate of more than , say , one every other day . |
| 6 | Ministers have taken the decision despite warnings from some civil servants that their failure to fund research into nuclear safety could backfire on them at the Sizewell public inquiry now under way in Suffolk . |
| 7 | Spring this on them at the worst possible time ; make sure they 're all in the corridor if possible , so you have the maximum number of potential victims . |
| 8 | These ledgers can be easily subdivided , enabling several clerks to work on them at the same time and it is also easier to withdraw old accounts and insert new ones in their place . |
| 9 | ‘ I 'll tell you quite frankly , I would n't know where to put my hands on them at the moment . |
| 10 | The following proposed amendments to the Constitution are for your careful consideration so that you can comment and vote on them at the A.G.M. on Friday , 19th March 1982 . |
| 11 | The idea was of staking out the estate and counting on someone at the appropriate moment . |
| 12 | Stop me if you 've heard this , but one of those gunsels opened up on somebody at the rear entrance of the Regal Arms Hotel . ’ |
| 13 | Electrical engineers will be reminded of the torque versus speed curve of an induction motor which exhibits an unstable and unmeasurable set of values as the curve turns back on itself at the pull-out torque . |
| 14 | A thousand salutes 0 Caesar and may Jupiter smile on you at the Neronian Games . |
| 15 | I have my breakfast to cook and today 's the day of the Two Thousand Guineas , I ca n't keep my mind on everything at the one time . " |
| 16 | Similarly , as the hand wanders in a doodle , the mind is free to concentrate on something at the back of it : in this case , the ideas just put before the children . |
| 17 | The old man nodded briefly , chewing on something at the side of his mouth . |
| 18 | Mr Butner — who developed a friendly , working relationship with Diana — eventually called on her at the palace . |
| 19 | ‘ Is this how princes use their power and privilege ? ’ she raged , and his hands loosened their grip on her at the fury in her face . |
| 20 | A black depression descended on her at the thought . |
| 21 | In other words , according to this view , Germany along with all the other nations stumbled into war in nineteen fourteen , was then declared , simply because she was the defeated party , declared to be the guilty party , erm had punitive terms imposed on her at the Treaty of Versailles , and as a result of this moved towards extremism in internal politics , with the erm consequence that the Democratic Republic of Weimar collapsed , erm Hitler came to power , and Hitler was some kind of evil person , a Satanic messenger from Hell , who first of all visited his atrocities on , on the Germans before doing the same to Europe as a whole . |
| 22 | the stimulator on her at the moment . |
| 23 | Shamji , who was also ordered to pay £28,960 costs , had asked the Appeal Court to reduce the sentence imposed on him at the Old Bailey on October 30 . |
| 24 | The letter is brief and unsigned , saying only that my lord wishes me to call on him at the Garden Tower at my earliest convenience . |
| 25 | A SCHOOLBOY was killed when a wall collapsed on him at the weekend . |
| 26 | To begin with , after the attack on him at the Lambeth Baths hall , his view of himself changed in a literal sense . |
| 27 | At the ship 's office I was informed that Sir George Clerk , the British Ambassador , had sent a message that as soon as I landed I was to call on him at the Embassy . |
| 28 | Michael Pumfrey had spent part of his childhood in Cullbridge , though the existence of Burleigh School had made no particular impression on him at the time . |
| 29 | Claudine had probably dropped that on him at the last minute . |
| 30 | Jessica 's interest is Rory Collins , we 're working on him at the moment . |