Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] [verb] [pers pn] at the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I expected to see you at the ball last night , Sharpe ! ’ |
| 2 | I suppose the fact that I 'd made it at the age of 14 was important because it meant I would go a long way in athletics . |
| 3 | I 'd met her at the odd party where we 'd chatted and that 's about it . ’ |
| 4 | One morning I arrived to find him at the supremely mundane task of " plugging muck " , standing on a manure heap , hurling steaming forkfuls on to a cart . |
| 5 | She 's a friend of Bertice Reading , who is working at the Prince of Wales Theatre , so I arranged to meet her at the stage door at 2 o'clock . |
| 6 | I went to visit him at the Benedictine monastery at Nashdom and asked him for any insights which he could give me from his experience in Accra . |
| 7 | Early in the morning I went to see him at the Castle . |
| 8 | I went to see it at the Barbican , it 's very good . |
| 9 | I did n't realise that I had lost it at the party . ’ |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Well I , I had done it at the interval . |
| 12 | I had met her at the England-USA match in Birmingham and she had offered to help me with my career . |
| 13 | The strap is a strong rubber one but I found I had to overtighten it at the surface , otherwise it became loose when my drysuit seal compressed at depth . |
| 14 | He came back from London and someone had to tell him at the station . |
| 15 | ‘ Somebody tried to phone her at the flat . |
| 16 | She projected a kind of agelessness , which had made her at the same time an object of attention from both the Young Women 's Fitness Class and the Over-50s Club . |
| 17 | She 'd heard him at the glass door — a double knock , very light . |
| 18 | Well Laura and Gemma wanted to make these pasties and she 'd asked me at the weekend and I did n't have the time because I think Irene came down cos I asked Irene whether she 'd looked after , you know I 'm at college until three , and she said yeah I 'll pick them up and er I could n't get her out at then so I promised she could make them so , I said alright you and Gemma make them , anyway they did very well they made them in about fifteen minutes because we had to go and get Emily at four from school , I said hurry up , hurry up put the water in Emily quick stick them together shove them now and put them in the oven |
| 19 | Miranda thought of M. Apéritif last night , and decided she would let him go further when she next saw him , in spite of the lizard darting of his small and oddly hard tongue in the kiss she 'd allowed him at the door of the hotel . |
| 20 | ‘ You 've got chilblains ! ’ their mother said when she came to see them at the beginning of December . |
| 21 | You did put it at the bottom did n't you Kyle ? |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | To lose her now was going to be ten times worse than when she had left her at the Foundling Hospital , and she was making herself ill with worry . |
| 24 | Sitting on the ground in front of it were the two constables who had delayed him at the dovecot during the arms search . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | In the telegram which Randolph sent her from Cape Town telling her what had happened , he asked her on no account to tell his father , the prime minister , but to arrange payments on the instalment plan of perhaps £10 a month to a list of the names he enclosed who had fleeced him at the cards tables . |
| 27 | The other occupants of the boat were a Marine sergeant and one of the soldiers who had found her at the village . |
| 28 | The same afternoon , my departed heterosexual colleague , who had bought it , and who had shown it at the conference , was on the phone : would I change my mind ? |
| 29 | ‘ He would verbalize his sadnesses , throw his arms about as he told elaborate stories concerning people who had upset him at the time , even when going into sad tales about people who were important to him . |
| 30 | He told Maurin he 'd pretended she wanted to meet you at the museum . |