Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] [pron] at the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was a pleasure to meet you at the Scottish Taxi Federation exhibition at Riccarton last week . |
| 2 | Fear gripped her at the demoniacal glint in his dark eyes . |
| 3 | Jane met him at the front door . |
| 4 | Sheffield went ahead after 30 minutes when Gage knocked the ball past Allen as he burst into the goalmouth and , though Walker parried both his shot and Deane 's follow-up , Deane beat him at the third attempt . |
| 5 | The boy found me at the sweet shop across the street , and told me of the drama . |
| 6 | Hewett despatched Charlton around the outside of the inn to meet them at the outside door , while he and the landlord hurried through to the tap room . |
| 7 | A ragged laugh escaped him at the startled look in her eyes . |
| 8 | Selina established herself at the circular steel table : evening paper , teacup , a single , deserved cigarette . |
| 9 | Much to my surprise , Karen greeted me at the front door with a glass of champagne in her hand and , still more unusual , a smile on her face . |
| 10 | Cannon stole one at the sixth to go 5-1 up . |
| 11 | It had been uppermost in her mind to ask about Marc , but her courage failed her at the last . |
| 12 | The fact that the Prime Minister of Great Britain had twice flown to Germany to intercede with him , and on the third occasion had hurried across Europe with the heads of the French and Italian Governments to meet him at the shortest possible notice , constituted a personal triumph for Hitler . |
| 13 | The Careys were also in attendance : Lady Carey glowered whilst her husband busied himself at the far end of the room , totally ignoring our existence . |
| 14 | Friday evening saw me at the National Gallery with her boyfriend and , quite literally , hundreds of other people , to the opening of the annual exhibition , sponsored this year by BP , of the Scottish Artists and Craftsmen . |
| 15 | Tabitha flung herself at the hard bunk with an angry sigh . |
| 16 | Nor was hegemony an inevitable or universal phenomenon , and conscious efforts to combat it at the ideological level were a necessary part of the socialist project . |
| 17 | The amount of a christian 's concern for these issues should not be based upon denominational preference or doctrinal bias , but upon a willingness to allow the compassion of loving God to affect us at the deepest level of our beings . |
| 18 | ALAN Healsey 's wife meets him at the back door of their home every night with a dressing gown . |
| 19 | Rose saw him at the heavy red gate of the yard . |
| 20 | Quickly loading the Very pistol with the red cartridge , Larsen aimed it at the open skylight and pulled the trigger . |
| 21 | Our competitors who use their better provision of education to beat us at the economic game — show us how a slender force of educated human resources , our current situation , is no basis for technical expertise in volume , for high intellect in commerce , for leadership quality in management , or for any other human component of economic success . |
| 22 | Me and Lee had her at the same time . |
| 23 | And besides , there were two things bothering him at the same time and he had assumed that the second problem nagging at him had been Cipolla . |
| 24 | Ellie cried , as she saw Mike hurling himself at the unprepared Patsy . |
| 25 | Miller dropped him at the main administration then drove on to the vehicle pool and , he said , some food and shut-eye . |
| 26 | Takes a coupla minutes and the people getting it at the other end do n't notice anything wrong . |
| 27 | Furthermore , as Martov put it at the 1903 congress , all members of the party should be concerned with the disabilities of minorities , not just the minority itself . |
| 28 | Too close and you get swept over the edge except that they usually have some sort of wire-mesh barrier to stop you at the last moment . |
| 29 | Meanwhile SunSelect continues to be skittish on any questions about WABI 's list price , packaging , availability or anything else substantive , ostensibly because of the gala rollout it has planned for May 5 at the 500-seat Great American Music Hall in San Francisco , having ditched plans to hold it at the giant Paramount Theater in Oakland , California . |
| 30 | When she came back , Phyllis and Peter met her at the back door . |