Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] [pron] at the [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | IBM Corp started relaxing its strict accounting practices way back in 1984 , just as the company 's core mainframe business began to lose its impetus , although no-one realised it at the time . |
2 | Started with this device this is the thing I made it at the grammar school when I was working there . |
3 | Course , I 'ad to 'ang about a bit until I saw yer go out , and afterwards I met 'im at the Elephant an' Castle . |
4 | When I met her at the airport after she flew in to London from Los Angeles recently , I caught my breath when I saw her because she just looked so lovely . |
5 | He thrust his hands deep into his pockets , hunching his shoulders as he continued , ‘ I met her at the party I threw to celebrate taking over control of the company . |
6 | ‘ My name is Lockwood , ’ I said , when I met him at the gate to his house . |
7 | Self conscious in my normal clothes I seated myself at the rear of the upper stalls . |
8 | I got nothing at the table right . |
9 | " I got mine at the cut price place at the end of the Queenstown Road . " |
10 | ‘ I suppose I took the wrong path , ’ he said , ‘ and I found myself at the edge of a cliff . ’ |
11 | The scene shifted and I found myself at the head of a stairwell , aware that yet another place might be reached but only by somersaulting over the banister and walking my feet down the opposite wall as one might descend a defile in a crag . |
12 | Then the talk turned to the West and I found myself at the centre of questions . |
13 | Before I had really recovered , I found myself at the railway station , where I said goodbye to Dulcie and we went our separate ways , promising to keep in touch , as one does . |
14 | As I told her at the time there were several possibilities . ’ |
15 | Well I mean , I told them at the time I was against the of a sixteen month deal . |
16 | Erm , thought it would be nice at handicrafts afternoon and then we could throw the handicraft meeting open to anybody if I told them at the meeting before were going to have it . |
17 | I told you at the beginning how it would be . |
18 | Christ Almighty , I told you at the time , did n't I ? |
19 | I told you at the time to stick out and then she would have to get a housekeeper in . |
20 | I identified her at the mortuary not an hour since . ’ |
21 | I do n't think he meant it , looking back , but I believed him at the time . |
22 | I threw myself at the door and tried desperately to open it . |
23 | I telephoned him at the shipping company , but was told that he was not in the office . |
24 | ‘ My father and eldest brother established an estate agency and I joined them at the age of 17 . |
25 | She indicated the pretty flower-patterned basin for me to wash my hands in , then I joined them at the table . |
26 | It was thanks to you all that I humiliated myself at the Harrogate Trade Show . |
27 | I began to see the nervousness in your eyes whenever I got too close to you , and when I kissed you at the inn I knew that Matilda had lied about one point at least . |
28 | Yes , that 's how I perceived it at the time , but I was wrong . |
29 | I ordered it at the branch of the Times Library then housed in Elliston and Cavell 's , the nearest equivalent to Harrods in the Oxford of pre-war years , and remember with what excitement I received it from their admirable librarian Miss Lush ( now Lady Ormerod ) at the end of my day 's work in the Bodleian . |
30 | I sensed it at the funeral . |