Example sentences of "[verb] [pers pn] at [art] " in BNC.
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| 31 | His Lordship Monboddo , wearing a little round hat and a farmer 's suit , met them at the gate . |
| 32 | And er also many engineers when they were out their time , they went to Glasgow and for a few years , he , everybody who went from Galashiels , word got through to him and he met them at the station and got them settled in their digs in Glasgow . |
| 33 | This , of course , did not affect me at the time ! |
| 34 | He led them at a smart pace along the path where the railway had been and though they grumbled about the branches scratching their legs his sister and his brothers followed him . |
| 35 | The rest clambered into their saddles , and followed him unquestioningly as he led them at a canter downslope to where the hills opened out and patches of ground could be seen where the snow was melting . |
| 36 | The next tunnel forked , turned left , turned right again , and other tunnels led off from it ; and Fand led them at an even pace along a course that seemed to have no sense . |
| 37 | The disorder that had seemed to him for decades to determine the course of events regrouped itself like a pile of iron filings suddenly organized by a magnet , and he had a flash of optimism when it appeared quite possible that men in the days to come might wish to find out more than concerned them at the moment . |
| 38 | My results were received with general disbelief when I announced them at a conference near Oxford . |
| 39 | If you want to keep the existing pipes ( perhaps using a tap adaptor ) , use a bath/basin spanner to disconnect them at the top . |
| 40 | One of the lads asked me at a dance how I had earned my living before I had got married . |
| 41 | ‘ Do you really wonder , ’ he asked me at an embassy function in west Beirut , ‘ why we wo n't claim compensation ? |
| 42 | But if you have others which I do not deal with satisfactorily then please raise them at the end . ’ |
| 43 | The main duty of the foresters of fee was of course the safe keeping of vert and venison : the Forest rolls show them searching for , arresting and attaching offenders , and indicting them at the Forest Eyre . |
| 44 | Against the advice given me at the Centre , quite deliberately I decided to have neither a counsellor nor a healer . |
| 45 | Hawkins , a Devon merchant , had seen that the demand for slaves from Africa was increasing in South America , and in 1562 he sailed — in the way many Englishmen were to do in the seventeenth and eighteenth century — to West Africa , bought slaves , took them to the Caribbean ports , and sold them at a profit . |
| 46 | And he h He sold them at a profit of thirty three and a third percent which is a third . |
| 47 | Their one hundred and fifty ton heavy life crane would have coped with that job easily enough but I hastily declined his offer which , apart from any other consideration would have placed me at a slight disadvantage . |
| 48 | Toucans collect them one at a time , throwing them up in the air and deftly catching them at the back of their throats . |
| 49 | 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 . |
| 50 | 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 . |
| 51 | They told you when you asked them at the club . |
| 52 | I got them at a craft fair at farm . |
| 53 | He will then answer them at the council meeting . |
| 54 | Many are offered in garden centres and shops , loose or prepacked , from February onwards , but care must be taken to plant them at the right time or thy may fail . |
| 55 | I turned to find that a girl had joined me at the bar . |
| 56 | Send us a cartoon or a caricature on the theme of 20th-century Oxford and we 'll publish the best two entries and display them at the Ashmolean . |
| 57 | The printed text of Taskopruzade says that Molla Arab , having studied under Khidr Bey ( Hizir Bey ) at the Sultan medrese in Bursa , became his at the Darulhadis medrese in Edirne . |
| 58 | BECAUSE DUDLEY MOORE has been told to turn up at his restaurant at Venice Beach , California at 2.30 pm to tell me his version of the story of his life , then Dudley Moore more or less dudleys into his restaurant at Venice Beach , California and joins me at a corner table where I 've been waiting to hear his story . |
| 59 | Their landlord visited them at the flat to recover back rent . |
| 60 | They can decide which pathways to follow and explore them at the time they ‘ read ’ the document . |