Example sentences of "[noun] [vb past] [verb] [pron] at [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The defendant then made an agreement with the plaintiffs in which ‘ in consideration that the plaintiffs , at the request of the defendant , would deliver to the defendant ’ the cargo of coal , the defendant promised to unload it at a stated rate . |
| 2 | ‘ His agent came to see us at the St Louis Lollapalooza show , and we talked about the possibility of doing something together . |
| 3 | He had gagged for hours following the ordeal , convinced that one of the dog 's hairs had lodged itself at the very back of his throat where his fingers were unable to reach . |
| 4 | Meredith had spotted him at an end of term production of You Never Can Tell at drama school . |
| 5 | This was pronounced with a kind of funereal satisfaction , and for a moment Jackson could imagine the remorseless gossip that someone else 's tragedy had afforded her at the time . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Katherine 's very presence seemed to provoke her at every turn . |
| 8 | Although my household and ARP duties did not allow of a visit to the Western hospital some folk came to see us at the main post , and laugh at the fact that the Steward of the hospital had had to send the last of his well-trained clerks to Egypt to help count the number of prisoners and try to get the provision for them in some sort of order . |
| 9 | That was when Sharpe bothered to show himself at the Prince 's headquarters at all ; he evidently preferred to spend his days riding the French frontier which was a job that properly belonged to the pompous General Dornberg , which thought reminded the Prince that Dornberg 's noon report should have arrived . |
| 10 | Saskia had thrown something at the third and hit it on the head . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | I turned to find that a girl had joined me at the bar . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Margaret Jones claims her husband tried to murder her at the family home in Brockhampton , by pumping exhaust fumes from the garage into her bedroom . |
| 15 | On the Left Bank the Germans began to find themselves at an increasing tactical disadvantage . |
| 16 | The alleged assaults happened when two officers went to arrest him at a house in Cathcart Road in London . |
| 17 | When I arrived ten minutes before her at one stop ( advance means a few minutes ahead as well as two months ) I found that two ladies in wheelchairs had positioned themselves at the foot of the stairs and were pleading with everyone to let them stay and shake hands with Mrs Thatcher . |
| 18 | One god suggested placing it at the top of the highest mountain ; another on the farthest star . |
| 19 | Tate left a number of finished canvases which had never been shown and Edwin decided to release them at the rate of one a year through Ismay Gorton 's , the London gallery which handles his work . |
| 20 | Moses , for instance , was a whimpering mass of inferiority as God began to commission him at the burning bush . |
| 21 | Miss Scrimgeour had received one at the same time . |
| 22 | However , it seemed the news that a low-class woman had presented herself at the back door alerted Master Jobbernole to the possible reason for her presence and its consequences . |
| 23 | She got the reel of film through customs without any trouble , and a man came to collect it at the hotel . |
| 24 | No industrialist liked to put himself at the mercy of creditors . |
| 25 | There were the two gold and jewelled boxes Müller had sold him at a staggering profit , considering he had bought them from someone facing criminal charges , and desperate for cash . |
| 26 | She alleged that the doctor had told her at a seminar that she desired Lozano . |
| 27 | Mr O'Donnell was then repeatedly beaten , burned with a cigarette , and had a car driven over his legs before the men attempted to hang him at an Argyll quarry , the court heard . |
| 28 | To do nothing might be worse — Allan had greeted them at the house with the news ( fresh from the great oven of rumour , the widow Duff 's at Ballinluig ) that a file of English soldiers had ridden out from Perth . |
| 29 | Tight in his hand he held the silver coin that Dad had given him at the front door . |
| 30 | Sally-Anne had met him at a party ; he had long been settled in England , and he had been impressed and amused by her fiery conversation and her obvious intelligence . |