Example sentences of "[noun sg] [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 Out in the dark cold hall she stopped him at the foot of the stairs .
3 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 .
4 They were last seen by a taxi driver who dropped them at the railway station more than 24 hours earlier .
5 On the appointed day I presented myself at the villa .
6 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 .
7 " 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 .
8 PAMELA : Whether sir , the nun who followed you at the masquerade is not the Countess of Pembroke ?
9 But that , of course , does not take into account the loan we made you at the start of the year .
10 Their poverty and loneliness were part of an isolation from ordinary family life which left them at the margins even of childhood memory .
11 Was that the young man who killed himself at the station ?
12 Started with this device this is the thing I made it at the grammar school when I was working there .
13 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 .
14 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 .
15 During a horse show he positioned himself at the edge of the arena .
16 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
17 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 .
18 ‘ 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 !
19 ‘ I saw the rose he gave you at the back of the drawer , wrapped in silver foil ! ’
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