Example sentences of "had [verb] [pers pn] at the " in BNC.
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| 1 | All the way up on the ferry from Vienna , Earth , Jezrael kept remembering how he had treated her at the briefing . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | In September 1960 Blake and his family arrived in Beirut where MI6 had enrolled him at the language school known as the Middle East Centre for Arab Studies . |
| 4 | Sitting on the ground in front of it were the two constables who had delayed him at the dovecot during the arms search . |
| 5 | Tight in his hand he held the silver coin that Dad had given him at the front door . |
| 6 | I turned to find that a girl had joined me at the bar . |
| 7 | It was as though he had joined them at the table , and it was n't doing D'Arcy 's appetite any good at all . |
| 8 | The wedding , planned for November … ’ ) she had learned that she was the goddaughter of Lady Bartlett ( that mother of sons … ) and had joined them at the end of July . |
| 9 | Her mother had telephoned her at the nurses ' home where she had been living and had asked her if she could come home . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | A kindly lorry driver on his way to North Wales , chatting of his own daughter and his home , had dropped her at the roundabout at the top of the Banbury Road at about lunch-time . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | He had met them at the Piazza Venezia two hours before . |
| 14 | I had met her at the England-USA match in Birmingham and she had offered to help me with my career . |
| 15 | When I asked Lee what 's going on , he told me this guy had met him at the airport and that he had a letter and had said he 'd caddied for Henry Cotton . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | He had seen them at the County Show , where he had gone for the rabbits , all those girls with plaits and scrubbed faces and clean gloves , doing an exhibition ride . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | He had recognised her at once when he had seen her at the funeral , and even then her looks , though pale and wan , had surprised him with their purity . |
| 21 | Many of them had seen it at the synagogue meeting on the previous night , but now in the daylight they were able to examine it more closely and exclaim at its resplendence . |
| 22 | Well I , I had done it at the interval . |
| 23 | It had soon passed , but it had alarmed her at the time . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | Nancy Ball had only been with Hugo for a few months and it was much longer than that since Harriet had visited him at the office . |
| 26 | Somehow — it did not seem diplomatic to enquire too deeply just how — he had missed her at the arranged spot . |
| 27 | She would find one , they had told her at the training depot , at most main-line stations . |
| 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 | If he had played me at the same age he 'd have given me three blacks start and a beating . |
| 30 | She had no intention of dancing another record with him ; Callum 's hands were far too slippery — in fact she was beginning to regret having anything to do with him at all ; the pleasant , confident smile that had greeted her at the beginning of the evening had now turned into a quite definite leer . |