Example sentences of "[vb past] [pron] at " in BNC.

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1 Other sketchbooks contain swift pencil notations which correspond to oil paintings , although it is not entirely clear what function they served and whether Monet consulted them at any later stage in the evolution of his compositions .
2 A COUPLE told yesterday of their terror when two escaped convicts kidnapped them at gunpoint .
3 Words failed me at this last find … but not so my companions !
4 Then he took the stones from their pouch and laid them at the bottom of the Bowl .
5 ‘ He met me at the station … ’
6 I had supposed that Aunt Louise would be in bed , but she met me at the door ; opened it , in fact , and held it ready for me to come in , because there was something she was bursting to tell me : ‘ I 'm not staying in this cold place a day longer . ’
7 Rich and Syb met me at the station .
8 My faithful driver , Murphy , met me at the gate , taking my bags and walking me past the vagrants and money changers to his car , an old American model that had become something of a collector 's item .
9 On the appointed Saturday in October , Micky met me at the railway station and drove me ( in a fairly elderly Morris Oxford with a canvas hood ) right down the High as far as the University Church , and there he parked ( no problem then ) .
10 Ken met me at the entrance and guided me into a side room .
11 He met them at the gate and was smiling .
12 In short , the consumer called the tune and the operators who prospered were those who best identified the needs of the consumers and met them at the right price .
13 He met them at the gates of the airfield ( still a debris of contractors ' equipment surrounded by barbed wire ) and informed them gravely that if they entered — no difficult matter — they would be breaking the law .
14 Robin Gurdon , who met them at army headquarters , was to guide the party through the southernmost part of the British lines as they hoped that by skirting the edge of the depression , they would avoid any main concentrations of German troops .
15 Although the other judges would not look at the assessors ' lists , Burn met them at the hall and compared his list of preferences to theirs .
16 He then startled champions-elect Everton with an early goal when we met them at their Goodison Park headquarters a week later ( 1–2 ) .
17 ‘ I met them at the same time , ’ Tim recalls .
18 One met them at every turn asking plaintively , ‘ Has edyone god edy andihysterbine tableds ? ’
19 Superior forces led by the Earl of Morton met them at Carberry Hill near the earlier battlefield of Pinkie .
20 We met them at Carberry Hill .
21 His Lordship Monboddo , wearing a little round hat and a farmer 's suit , met them at the gate .
22 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 .
23 I first met them at a trial .
24 As they moved from one high-ceilinged panelled room to the next , signs of disorder and decay met them at each open door .
25 The future of Lothar and his supporters was settled when Louis met them at Blois in September : The emperor sat in his pavilion which was set up in the middle of a wide field on a hill where the whole army could see him , and his faithful sons [ Pippin and Louis ] stood beside him .
26 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 .
27 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 .
28 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 .
29 With the fury that had accumulated over the years I pulled up some onions and flung them at him .
30 So saying , with all her strength she flung them at him , so that they scythed across his desk , scattering letters and papers .
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