Example sentences of "[verb] [vb pp] [pron] at the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | She had at times , almost as if it were a comfort , at least something accustomed , run through the fruitless litany of remorse : I ought not to have tolerated his infidelities , I ought to have stopped it at the start , I have colluded with his depravity , it is all my fault . |
| 32 | ( e ) the vulnerability or otherwise of the target 's board ( the offeror will particularly focus on the board 's achievements and also on any areas where individual directors could be said to have advantaged themselves at the expense of the company ( eg golden parachute arrangements ( see para 18.5.12 below ) ) ; |
| 33 | His new album Goodbye Jumbo seems to have put him at the top of the list of those eager to nominate a spokesman for the green generation . |
| 34 | All the way up on the ferry from Vienna , Earth , Jezrael kept remembering how he had treated her at the briefing . |
| 35 | In retrospect I can see that this implication can be drawn from the envelope , and I only wish I had realised it at the time . |
| 36 | In September 1960 Blake and his family arrived in Beirut where MI6 had enrolled him at the language school known as the Middle East Centre for Arab Studies . |
| 37 | Sitting on the ground in front of it were the two constables who had delayed him at the dovecot during the arms search . |
| 38 | I turned to find that a girl had joined me at the bar . |
| 39 | It was as though he had joined them at the table , and it was n't doing D'Arcy 's appetite any good at all . |
| 40 | The wedding , planned for November … ’ ) she had learned that she was the goddaughter of Lady Bartlett ( that mother of sons … ) and had joined them at the end of July . |
| 41 | Her mother had telephoned her at the nurses ' home where she had been living and had asked her if she could come home . |
| 42 | Beryl 's words had impressed him at the time because they summed up his own vague feeling that what had happened and what was happening might be consequences of the old man 's cynical , even malicious contrivings . |
| 43 | A kindly lorry driver on his way to North Wales , chatting of his own daughter and his home , had dropped her at the roundabout at the top of the Banbury Road at about lunch-time . |
| 44 | He had met them at the Piazza Venezia two hours before . |
| 45 | A young man in an immaculate dark blue suit took over from the young woman who had met them at the elevator and led them into a vast room , furnished with antiques . |
| 46 | I had met her at the England-USA match in Birmingham and she had offered to help me with my career . |
| 47 | When I asked Lee what 's going on , he told me this guy had met him at the airport and that he had a letter and had said he 'd caddied for Henry Cotton . |
| 48 | Now imagine that instead of sitting behind his desk your boss had met you at the door and ushered you to a seat , then pulled up a chair next to you . |
| 49 | Dan Sandford had met us at the railway station in Addis Ababa and had brought with him Omar , our prospective headman , to clear our baggage through customs and deal with the other formalities . |
| 50 | I 've met lots at the Blackburn Literary Club . |
| 51 | I 've seen him at the club many times . |
| 52 | She says I 've seen him at the shop but he did n't speak . |
| 53 | She says I 've seen him at the shop but he did n't speak . |
| 54 | She says I 've seen him at the shop but he did n't speak . |
| 55 | She says I 've seen him at the shop but he did n't speak . |
| 56 | I 've seen them at the shop , paying their bills . |
| 57 | Mind you , I 've seen it at the agency |
| 58 | He had seen them at the County Show , where he had gone for the rabbits , all those girls with plaits and scrubbed faces and clean gloves , doing an exhibition ride . |
| 59 | She knew Gwen Evans only slightly ; she had seen her at the funeral , and previous to that a couple of times , but the memory stuck . |
| 60 | He had recognised her at once when he had seen her at the funeral , and even then her looks , though pale and wan , had surprised him with their purity . |