Example sentences of "[verb] [vb pp] [pers pn] at the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is your enthusiasm , dedication and sheer hard work which has placed us at the forefront of our industry . |
| 2 | She plans to launch her own designer clothes label but that is one area where her younger sister has pipped her at the post . |
| 3 | She 'd heard him at the glass door — a double knock , very light . |
| 4 | I suppose the fact that I 'd made it at the age of 14 was important because it meant I would go a long way in athletics . |
| 5 | He asked the old man if he knew Miss Lavant , if he 'd seen her at the fete , in clothes with buttercups on them . |
| 6 | He recognised Kurz and Hinterstoisser , he 'd seen them at the hotel ; strikingly handsome fellows , especially Kurz , an officer of the Wehrmacht , blue-eyed , blond-haired . |
| 7 | Well Laura and Gemma wanted to make these pasties and she 'd asked me at the weekend and I did n't have the time because I think Irene came down cos I asked Irene whether she 'd looked after , you know I 'm at college until three , and she said yeah I 'll pick them up and er I could n't get her out at then so I promised she could make them so , I said alright you and Gemma make them , anyway they did very well they made them in about fifteen minutes because we had to go and get Emily at four from school , I said hurry up , hurry up put the water in Emily quick stick them together shove them now and put them in the oven |
| 8 | Miranda thought of M. Apéritif last night , and decided she would let him go further when she next saw him , in spite of the lizard darting of his small and oddly hard tongue in the kiss she 'd allowed him at the door of the hotel . |
| 9 | He 'd left her at the inn without so much as a word , and here he was , calmly indulging his hobby while she 'd had to trek after him . |
| 10 | When he 'd left her at the entrance to Newcastle Place the day Pa died she 'd ached with disappointment that she might never see him again . |
| 11 | He must have heard her at the door . |
| 12 | We would have expected them at the beginning , and as we are still at the beginning , they ought to be here . |
| 13 | You should have phoned us at the Club . ’ |
| 14 | Wickham suspected he looked dubious because she hurried on : ‘ Oh , I know you 're thinking I might not have noticed him at the bar . |
| 15 | Having met him at the station on 3 December , a Tuesday , we walked back to the Old parsonage , in St Giles 's ( now a hotel ) , where Michael Cullis had pleasant lodgings . |
| 16 | Anyway I realized I 'd have missed you at the Club , so I turned round and set off back . |
| 17 | We 'd have seen her at the window long ago , and got her down . ’ |
| 18 | ‘ You should have told me at the time ! ’ |
| 19 | I should have told you at the beginning . |
| 20 | It is too late at the appeal stage to think about getting evidence which could have helped you at the beginning . |
| 21 | We might have got her at the ferry . ’ |
| 22 | The organisation of the celebrations on such a large scale was a major success for Pateman and although he could not have known it at the time he was in the final few months of his long and difficult years of service to the District and the WEA . |
| 23 | But having said that surely Wilkinson could have kept him at the club , for someone who says that players are picked on the performances they produce how can he explain Deane ? |
| 24 | She had at times , almost as if it were a comfort , at least something accustomed , run through the fruitless litany of remorse : I ought not to have tolerated his infidelities , I ought to have stopped it at the start , I have colluded with his depravity , it is all my fault . |
| 25 | His new album Goodbye Jumbo seems to have put him at the top of the list of those eager to nominate a spokesman for the green generation . |
| 26 | All the way up on the ferry from Vienna , Earth , Jezrael kept remembering how he had treated her at the briefing . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | Sitting on the ground in front of it were the two constables who had delayed him at the dovecot during the arms search . |
| 30 | I turned to find that a girl had joined me at the bar . |