Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] [pron] [adv prt] at " in BNC.
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| 1 | When by Monday lunchtime there was still no word from him , however , she tried phoning him up at MacKay Contracting — only to be told that he was unavailable . |
| 2 | Er we always tried to put it over at er Everest product prices . |
| 3 | He chased them in Australia last year , tried to hunt them down at the Arms Park in the World Cup , but found himself on the end of the heaviest Welsh defeats home and away . |
| 4 | Codron tried to get it on at the Royal Court — on the face of things , an ideal setting-but it was turned down there , too . |
| 5 | We agreed to set it up at the last meeting . |
| 6 | Once when I was leaving for Europe , he came to see me off at the airport , bringing a parting gift . |
| 7 | But they were waiting and , into a pause , he mentioned that he 'd met them over at Jimmy 's . |
| 8 | I 'd seen him around at one or two private parties given by wire service operators and gamblers . |
| 9 | And er I got involved on national registration and er , on one occasion , we were working , we 'd got a deadline and we were working through the weekend , and my wife came to pick me up at what she thought was a reasonable time , at one o'clock on Saturday , found she was given a cup of tea and set to work , and we finished , going home about midnight . . |
| 10 | She decided to play them out at the game they had chosen . |
| 11 | Its prime time is shortly before the 8 am news , but it decided to put him on at 8.20 am , when many listeners will be on their way to work . |
| 12 | I went to pick them up at D'Amicos at eight . |
| 13 | ‘ A number of invitations have been outstanding for some time , and people just chose to take them up at this stage , ’ one said . |
| 14 | Rather they preferred to farm them out at a fixed rent , at leases which , in the fourteenth century , became progressively longer , and to enjoy the freedom to take up offices or to serve in the army . |
| 15 | When she did get it in at last , she had to be careful not to trap its tail in the lid when she slid it closed . |
| 16 | Jack had also met Tina 's grandad , whose quick mind and sense of humour had won him over at once . |
| 17 | Finally , he had felt sick at his behaviour and had dropped her off at her home with a feeling of relief that she was not the clinging type and perhaps he could avoid her in future . |
| 18 | Her father had dropped her off at her best friend 's house … . ’ |
| 19 | Marc had dropped her off at her flat in the early hours with little more being said between them . |
| 20 | Their ‘ great weekend ’ as he put it had come to a highly unsatisfactory end yesterday evening , when he had dropped her off at home , and after seeing her in , had ridden off with scarcely a word . |
| 21 | He had said hardly anything since we had picked him up at a draughty street corner where the Hanko road leaves Helsinki . |
| 22 | In his summing-up , Mr Justice Leonard said the case against Kearney hinged on his identification by Mr Lewin , who had picked him out at an identity parade . |
| 23 | Ruth had felt it from the moment he had picked her up at the hotel and once again they had headed for the Cartuja site of the Expo . |
| 24 | They swore that they had turned her down at first , but that she had behaved in such a bold manner — sitting on their laps , kissing them and fingering her body — that they could not hold back any longer . |
| 25 | Anyway , I had built her up at the front end so that she was standing with her fore feet on a half door and had given her a strong oily purgative . |
| 26 | A diver had found it out at sea trapped beneath the underground storage container from a petrol station , the container having been ripped right out of the ground . |
| 27 | ‘ I had put it down at this spot and was about to discover , ’ he said . |
| 28 | She had passed it off at the time , saying , ‘ That 's right , Sarah ! |
| 29 | Just before the end of term she had strained her back at college . |
| 30 | He had never been with a man who wanted to take him out at three in morning and stand him up against a wall in a dark street and jerk him off , not because there was nowhere else to go , but for the pleasure of doing it like that ; he had never done it again and again with one body . |