Example sentences of "[verb] someone at " in BNC.
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| 1 | If you saw someone you knew and you shouted out to them , you were in dead trouble , even if you shouted hello , or if you asked someone at the next table for a cigarette . |
| 2 | In the words of a single 19-year-old trainee pilot : ‘ In an ideal world you 'd be able to meet someone at a bus-stop , go for a drink , take them home and bonk their brains out — and then go home to your girlfriend for dinner . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ Excuse me , Dudley , I have to meet someone at the station . ’ |
| 4 | And if the committee of the CICCU be taxed with bringing in someone who did not fit the undergraduates of a university , it might be replied , first that they were desperate to find someone at short notice , and secondly , was it desirable that a missioner should fit the undergraduates ? |
| 5 | ‘ Oh , piss off , ’ shouted someone at the other end of the hut , as a boot bounced off the door just as the Sergeant made his exit . |
| 6 | " Do you happen to know someone at San Carlos ? " |
| 7 | I was convinced that the law would back us , so I found someone at a local law centre and she confirmed it , so we went back . |
| 8 | Bad when we meet someone at the station , but unbearable when we are seeing them off ; not present when we are departing ourselves , but unbearable when arriving in London , if only from a day in Brighton . ’ |
| 9 | If the bankrupt can not himself prepare a proper statement of affairs , the official receiver may either employ someone at the expense of the estate to assist in its preparation ( r 6.63(1) ) or make an allowance out of the estate to a named person to assist the bankrupt in its preparation ( r 6.63(2) and ( 3 ) ) . |
| 10 | Nurses visit someone at home once or twice a week , helping with bathing , dressing , lifting and medical care , and providing incontinence pads . |
| 11 | Now they may have their own reasons for that and it may be difficult for them to send someone at this precise moment , but I do n't think that they 're necessarily geared up to dealing with the sorts of things that you want them to deal with . |
| 12 | Besides , what if you did forget — you would have someone at hand to remind you ! ’ |
| 13 | ‘ What are we going to sing ? ’ called someone at the back . |
| 14 | I thought , ‘ Oh my God , I 've found someone at last that really does care for me . ’ |
| 15 | ‘ Yes — keep your fingers crossed — I think I 've actually found someone at last , ’ she told him with a thankful sigh . |
| 16 | ‘ We 'd better tell someone at once , ’ said Tim . |
| 17 | Most schools have appointed someone at the middle management level or above ( see Figure 1 ) . |
| 18 | The accused need not realise that he is putting someone at risk : Seymour . |
| 19 | I 've got to get out as soon as I get , I 've , I 've promised at night I 'd have , I 'll , I 'll have someone for a night , I 've got to have someone at night as well as the day |
| 20 | It has already been stated that the main aim of the service was to be the construction of flexible packages of care for clients by , firstly , liaising with other services to provide or increase where necessary the client 's receipt of existing services , and , secondly , by ‘ topping up ’ existing services ( where the development officer thought extra care was necessary to maintain someone at home ) through the employment of local support workers . |
| 21 | ‘ England would definitely play someone at Twickenham on November 14 ’ added Wood . |
| 22 | ‘ A woman in the next neighbourhood has one of those coils inside her , ’ said someone at a village meeting called by family planning workers in Bangladesh . |
| 23 | Maybe he had someone at home . |
| 24 | Did he not go and shoot someone at the clay-pigeon shooting in Ardallt two months ago ! |
| 25 | — For the price of a newspaper or a bar of chocolate you can help someone at home and away — |
| 26 | Lee gave him a shove , there was some pushing and tripping up , Kevin fell over into Dean 's lap and a woman at the other end of the car shouted that if they did n't behave themselves she 'd find someone at Goldhawk Road who would make them . |
| 27 | But the , you know it 's two o'clock in the morning and police car 's coming through the village and see someone at that time , they 're quite likely to stop and ask them what they 're doing . |