Example sentences of "[noun prp] [verb] [pers pn] at the " in BNC.
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1 | Mr Trelawney met us at the cave . |
2 | Ken met me at the entrance and guided me into a side room . |
3 | Headmistress Shirley Cunningham greeted us at the school gates with her own highly appropriate joke . |
4 | Headmistress Shirley Cunningham greeted us at the school gates with her own highly appropriate joke . |
5 | But dear oh dear , headmistress Shirley Cunningham greeted us at the school gates with the world 's oldest joke . |
6 | Theories of personal development , or of the historical and sociological development of humanity , which ignore it or dispense with it , make psychoanalytic theory less advanced than it was when Freud left it at the end of his life . |
7 | Corbett left them at The Bull , its narrow windows draped with black crepe in mourning for the landlord whose coffin now stood outside the main door , perched rather crazily on its wooden trestles . |
8 | Lillee met him at the gate and escorted him to the middle . |
9 | Jane met him at the front door . |
10 | Sheffield went ahead after 30 minutes when Gage knocked the ball past Allen as he burst into the goalmouth and , though Walker parried both his shot and Deane 's follow-up , Deane beat him at the third attempt . |
11 | Kim meets us at the door wearing a shimmering dress . |
12 | Cambridge also contained a strong ‘ republican ’ group at this time , and while there is no proof that Wordsworth joined them at the University we find that he freely associated with ex-Cambridge liberals after his return from France in 1793 . |
13 | For a while Flavia Sherman joined them at the rail and stood with her hand resting on Joseph 's shoulder ; but she seemed restless and soon tired of watching the peasants at work in the fields . |
14 | They were part of Japan until Russia occupied them at the end of the second world war , and the Japanese feel they are justified in wanting them back . |
15 | 97 Squadron of Lancasters left us at the end of April to return to Coningsby in Lincolnshire , from whence they had come , and with the loss of life drastically cut down , some of the pressure and sadness lifted , to be replaced by pressure of a different kind . |
16 | Much to my surprise , Karen greeted me at the front door with a glass of champagne in her hand and , still more unusual , a smile on her face . |
17 | Dorje greeted me at the bottom and pulled me by the hand across the slabs of ice which had cracked into pontoons , barely locked together . |
18 | It was planned in 1725 and an engraving by Sutton Nicholls shows it at the north side of the garden , 300 feet long with forty-one windows on the ground floor . |
19 | Rich and Syb met me at the station . |
20 | The boy showed little talent for the business and hardly earned the £2 10s Mr Marshall paid him at the end of the week . |
21 | Newley bought it at the Warton sale . |
22 | Martin held him at the knees always pushing inside him like warm water pouring in . |
23 | The Khan got her at the sack of T'sosei , and when the Kha-Khan — the present one 's father — wanted her for himself , the Khan married her . |
24 | As the spacesuit folded in on itself like one of the Transformers toys that had fascinated the boys in Ace 's school for a brief season , Defries joined her at the window . |
25 | Rose saw him at the heavy red gate of the yard . |
26 | Quickly loading the Very pistol with the red cartridge , Larsen aimed it at the open skylight and pulled the trigger . |
27 | Mrs Rose left him at the station and returned alone to London . |
28 | ‘ Lissa , ’ Adam greeted her at the door . |
29 | The existence of such an educational establishment aroused widespread interest amongst the intelligentsia , causing Dr Samuel Johnson to inspect it at the end of his tour of the Hebrides in 1773 . |
30 | Miller dropped him at the main administration then drove on to the vehicle pool and , he said , some food and shut-eye . |