Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] [pers pn] at the " in BNC.
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| 1 | IBM Corp started relaxing its strict accounting practices way back in 1984 , just as the company 's core mainframe business began to lose its impetus , although no-one realised it at the time . |
| 2 | Started with this device this is the thing I made it at the grammar school when I was working there . |
| 3 | Course , I 'ad to 'ang about a bit until I saw yer go out , and afterwards I met 'im at the Elephant an' Castle . |
| 4 | When I met her at the airport after she flew in to London from Los Angeles recently , I caught my breath when I saw her because she just looked so lovely . |
| 5 | He thrust his hands deep into his pockets , hunching his shoulders as he continued , ‘ I met her at the party I threw to celebrate taking over control of the company . |
| 6 | I met him at the Labour Club . |
| 7 | ‘ My name is Lockwood , ’ I said , when I met him at the gate to his house . |
| 8 | ‘ I met them at the same time , ’ Tim recalls . |
| 9 | " I got mine at the cut price place at the end of the Queenstown Road . " |
| 10 | One this girl traced my hand and I traced hers at the same time — I went very slowly , which triggered her ticklishness , and she laughed every time my pencil made it to the place between two of her fingers , but she was brave , she stayed put . |
| 11 | As I told her at the time there were several possibilities . ’ |
| 12 | Erm , thought it would be nice at handicrafts afternoon and then we could throw the handicraft meeting open to anybody if I told them at the meeting before were going to have it . |
| 13 | Well I mean , I told them at the time I was against the of a sixteen month deal . |
| 14 | Christ Almighty , I told you at the time , did n't I ? |
| 15 | ‘ I told you at the fair — it 's out of your hands . |
| 16 | I told you at the time to stick out and then she would have to get a housekeeper in . |
| 17 | I told you at the beginning how it would be . |
| 18 | I identified her at the mortuary not an hour since . ’ |
| 19 | I do n't think he meant it , looking back , but I believed him at the time . |
| 20 | I telephoned him at the shipping company , but was told that he was not in the office . |
| 21 | ‘ My father and eldest brother established an estate agency and I joined them at the age of 17 . |
| 22 | She indicated the pretty flower-patterned basin for me to wash my hands in , then I joined them at the table . |
| 23 | I began to see the nervousness in your eyes whenever I got too close to you , and when I kissed you at the inn I knew that Matilda had lied about one point at least . |
| 24 | Yes , that 's how I perceived it at the time , but I was wrong . |
| 25 | I ordered it at the branch of the Times Library then housed in Elliston and Cavell 's , the nearest equivalent to Harrods in the Oxford of pre-war years , and remember with what excitement I received it from their admirable librarian Miss Lush ( now Lady Ormerod ) at the end of my day 's work in the Bodleian . |
| 26 | I sensed it at the funeral . |
| 27 | I loved him at the beginning and could not hate him later — even when he was agonizing everyone . |
| 28 | I warned you at the outset , gentlemen , that my suspicions may be unfounded . |
| 29 | ‘ Well , I warned you at the interview that I was no easy option , did n't I ? ’ he barked . |
| 30 | Just beyond Fort Augustus a trace of their road may still be found ; now impassable , it must have been a fearful route : the climb up to any height of it is ferociously demanding — or else I hit it at the wrong spot . |