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

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1 I expected to see you at the ball last night , Sharpe ! ’
2 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 .
3 I 'd met her at the odd party where we 'd chatted and that 's about it . ’
4 One morning I arrived to find him at the supremely mundane task of " plugging muck " , standing on a manure heap , hurling steaming forkfuls on to a cart .
5 She 's a friend of Bertice Reading , who is working at the Prince of Wales Theatre , so I arranged to meet her at the stage door at 2 o'clock .
6 I went to visit him at the Benedictine monastery at Nashdom and asked him for any insights which he could give me from his experience in Accra .
7 Early in the morning I went to see him at the Castle .
8 I went to see it at the Barbican , it 's very good .
9 I did n't realise that I had lost it at the party . ’
10 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 .
11 Well I , I had done it at the interval .
12 I had met her at the England-USA match in Birmingham and she had offered to help me with my career .
13 The strap is a strong rubber one but I found I had to overtighten it at the surface , otherwise it became loose when my drysuit seal compressed at depth .
14 He came back from London and someone had to tell him at the station .
15 Somebody tried to phone her at the flat .
16 She projected a kind of agelessness , which had made her at the same time an object of attention from both the Young Women 's Fitness Class and the Over-50s Club .
17 She 'd heard him at the glass door — a double knock , very light .
18 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
19 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 .
20 ‘ You 've got chilblains ! ’ their mother said when she came to see them at the beginning of December .
21 You did put it at the bottom did n't you Kyle ?
22 She knew Gwen Evans only slightly ; she had seen her at the funeral , and previous to that a couple of times , but the memory stuck .
23 A serving-maid to all intents and purposes , she had presented herself at the door which gave access to the rear stairs , the garden stairs , which led to the royal apartments .
24 To lose her now was going to be ten times worse than when she had left her at the Foundling Hospital , and she was making herself ill with worry .
25 Sitting on the ground in front of it were the two constables who had delayed him at the dovecot during the arms search .
26 Who had killed whom at the end of the day was hard to tell .
27 A young man in an immaculate dark blue suit took over from the young woman who had met them at the elevator and led them into a vast room , furnished with antiques .
28 DS Tony Bull , of Clacton CID , said police officers were anxious to hear from anyone who had seen anything at the premises between about 7.45pm on Sunday and 7.30am on Monday .
29 He watched Ewen steadily , while the constable , who had seated himself at the kitchen table , was taking notes .
30 In the telegram which Randolph sent her from Cape Town telling her what had happened , he asked her on no account to tell his father , the prime minister , but to arrange payments on the instalment plan of perhaps £10 a month to a list of the names he enclosed who had fleeced him at the cards tables .
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