Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] [pers pn] at the [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 I have today won a concession from the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry , in as much as he is going to give a delegation from the Southampton and district licensed victuallers an opportunity to see him at the Department to talk over some of these matters .
2 Erm so in in broad terms the master plan is is unchanged in concept but we think improved in detail the is the other thing at each end erm represents on the left hand side er , what is currently Honey Hill I believe the name may be changed in due course erm and those behind me here are the houses on the Fern Hill side and then , although some of you will have difficulty seeing it at the moment , at the bottom there are detailed drawings showing the internal arrangement of the houses and flats and , and detailed drawings of the elevations with dimensions , so one can have a have a bit of a feel for the the sort of space standards that we 've aimed at , but there are in fact , furniture plans shown on the drawings .
3 Mr Trelawney met us at the cave .
4 Ken met me at the entrance and guided me into a side room .
5 I was still more surprised when some of their parents arrived in motor cars to see them at the weekend
6 It was a great pleasure to meet you at the Conference in Lisbon and to talk about your proposal for an introduction to CALL .
7 Not that the organs of perception apprehended it at the time .
8 ‘ HA HA HA HA HA HA , ’ the little girl went in the next picture-square , and ‘ BONK read the bubble as the typewriter hit her at the end of the joke .
9 Depart London Heathrow for Pisa , where your hire car awaits you at the airport .
10 What sublime emotion inspires you at the moment of the assault ?
11 In the 1470s the closest parallel is to be found in the north midlands , where Hastings ' possession of the key duchy of Lancaster offices put him at the head of the royal connection in the region .
12 In the 1470s the closest parallel is to be found in the north midlands , where Hastings ' possession of the key duchy of Lancaster offices put him at the head of the royal connection in the region .
13 Headmistress Shirley Cunningham greeted us at the school gates with her own highly appropriate joke .
14 Headmistress Shirley Cunningham greeted us at the school gates with her own highly appropriate joke .
15 But dear oh dear , headmistress Shirley Cunningham greeted us at the school gates with the world 's oldest joke .
16 Theories of personal development , or of the historical and sociological development of humanity , which ignore it or dispense with it , make psychoanalytic theory less advanced than it was when Freud left it at the end of his life .
17 The president , meanwhile , stood high in the public opinion polls after the attempt to assassinate him at the end of March .
18 The umpires check it at the end of every over .
19 Last Wednesday we invited the 4 British students studying at the University to visit us at the hotel for dinner .
20 Lillee met him at the gate and escorted him to the middle .
21 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 .
22 Kim meets us at the door wearing a shimmering dress .
23 Cambridge also contained a strong ‘ republican ’ group at this time , and while there is no proof that Wordsworth joined them at the University we find that he freely associated with ex-Cambridge liberals after his return from France in 1793 .
24 For a while Flavia Sherman joined them at the rail and stood with her hand resting on Joseph 's shoulder ; but she seemed restless and soon tired of watching the peasants at work in the fields .
25 So the real question facing us at the moment is not whether there should be a relationship , or whether there should be a link but in what way we should modernize it and arrange it today .
26 Clough will consider it a much needed morale booster if he can get Keane 's signature on the new deal , even though the battle to keep him at the City Ground is far from being won .
27 On their behalf , a local radio station has launched a campaign to keep him at the County Ground .
28 ‘ It was a brutal and cowardly attack on wretched creatures whose offences placed them at the bottom of the prison heap , ’ he said .
29 They were part of Japan until Russia occupied them at the end of the second world war , and the Japanese feel they are justified in wanting them back .
30 97 Squadron of Lancasters left us at the end of April to return to Coningsby in Lincolnshire , from whence they had come , and with the loss of life drastically cut down , some of the pressure and sadness lifted , to be replaced by pressure of a different kind .
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