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

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1 With a growl he launched himself at the wizard , boots clattering as he slid from ring to ring .
2 ‘ Women of middle class origins who found themselves at the beginning of their working lives unequipped to promote themselves within occupations which traditionally demanded either precise qualifications or highly developed aptitude ’ .
3 Out in the dark cold hall she stopped him at the foot of the stairs .
4 The taxi driver who left us at the station , enchanted by the idea that we were setting off for the source of the Nile , refused to accept any fare .
5 They were last seen by a taxi driver who dropped them at the railway station more than 24 hours earlier .
6 On the appointed day I presented myself at the villa .
7 The subject is believed to be Gian Giacomo Caprotti , a pupil of da Vinci who joined him at the age of 10 , later becoming one of his lovers .
8 St Agnes FCJ was in Sierra Leone , before she was forced to flee and it was Joseph and his friend who helped her at the time .
9 The figures you gave us at the beginning I I seem to remember that you sell a lot more water abroad than in this country .
10 Mrs Buck 's taken out an official complaint against the officers who arrested her at the chemist in Oxford .
11 " Creed " was , indeed to some extent how the convert himself saw it at the time : witness the acknowledgement in letters of 1866 and 1867 , that such philosophical tenets are not philosophically demonstrable , but are acceptable as art or for their edifying power or simply as faith .
12 PAMELA : Whether sir , the nun who followed you at the masquerade is not the Countess of Pembroke ?
13 But that , of course , does not take into account the loan we made you at the start of the year .
14 Their poverty and loneliness were part of an isolation from ordinary family life which left them at the margins even of childhood memory .
15 Most Asian and Afro-Caribbean men and women were drawn into low-paid occupations which placed them at the lower rather than the upper limits of these widening inequalities .
16 Was that the young man who killed himself at the station ?
17 Started with this device this is the thing I made it at the grammar school when I was working there .
18 If the drug which you took is known to cause foetal damage , then it would appear that the doctor who advised you at the hospital has been negligent .
19 If the drug which you took is known to cause foetal damage , then it would appear that the doctor who advised you at the hospital has been negligent .
20 During a horse show he positioned himself at the edge of the arena .
21 Self conscious in my normal clothes I seated myself at the rear of the upper stalls .
22 Now you 've had the , the benefit of hindsight which would you rather go with , the structured way or the , you know , the way you did it at the
23 The 1000 or so members of the meek class who presented themselves at the conference , were , suitably enough , unruffled by having been shunted from the Sorbonne to the techno-chic sidings at Porte de la Villette .
24 ‘ When I was ten , my Dad bought me a guitar for Christmas , which I 'd asked for , but at the same time he enrolled me at the local golf club !
25 ‘ I saw the rose he gave you at the back of the drawer , wrapped in silver foil ! ’
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