Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] [pron] at [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I met him at the Labour Club . |
| 2 | ‘ I met them at the same time , ’ Tim recalls . |
| 3 | In a short while , limping and protesting , I found myself at the local prison , pushed into a filthy stinking room with some two dozen other malefactors . |
| 4 | I was convinced that the law would back us , so I found someone at a local law centre and she confirmed it , so we went back . |
| 5 | One this girl traced my hand and I traced hers at the same time — I went very slowly , which triggered her ticklishness , and she laughed every time my pencil made it to the place between two of her fingers , but she was brave , she stayed put . |
| 6 | ‘ I told you at the fair — it 's out of your hands . |
| 7 | Just beyond Fort Augustus a trace of their road may still be found ; now impassable , it must have been a fearful route : the climb up to any height of it is ferociously demanding — or else I hit it at the wrong spot . |
| 8 | I saw him at the odd university reunion . |
| 9 | I saw him at the very moment in his life when he earned the name Elethandian gave him : the boy who listens to the voice of the oak . |
| 10 | I 'd heard that American Music Club were something wonderful , but when I saw them at the Grand in Clapham recently , I was n't that impressed . |
| 11 | ’ Actually I saw you at the Central Conference last month . ’ |
| 12 | I heaved him at the other two and they went down , firing wild into the air . |
| 13 | It gives me special pleasure to be present at the wedding of my good friends Annabelle and Steven , because I introduced them at the Dashing Disco/Royal Hotel/Country Club and because I have known both of them for many years at school/the tennis club . |
| 14 | ‘ I started a similar scheme in Wellington , but then I did it at the same hour on the same day every week . |
| 15 | Phyl would have stayed in show business without the help of Littler but she was fortunate in that she met him at the right time , when he was building up his pantomime empire . |
| 16 | If you saw someone you knew and you shouted out to them , you were in dead trouble , even if you shouted hello , or if you asked someone at the next table for a cigarette . |
| 17 | ‘ She caught it at the public baths , ’ said his mum , with another one of her sniggers . |
| 18 | ‘ I know you and Niall did n't exactly get off to a good start , but if it 's any consolation you caught him at a bad time . |
| 19 | ‘ I 'm so sorry , Veronica , you caught me at a bad moment , ’ Loretta said apologetically . |
| 20 | Mind you can always say to you caught me at a bad time , you say , it 's supposed to have appointment only , but just say , can you , is there any chance of you coming back . |
| 21 | His dark eyes met hers as if he felt her surreptitious appraisal , and she found herself at the receiving end of that long , sardonic smile . |
| 22 | While the water steamed from the taps , she busied herself at the long table beneath the bathroom mirror , lifting the lids from the various jars and sniffing at them until she found the one she was searching for . |
| 23 | She adjusted it at a still more ludicrous angle in the mirror . |
| 24 | ‘ Is all well ? ’ he asked when she joined him at a small table in a corner of the crowded bar . |
| 25 | Say , ‘ You lost him at an early age , did n't you ? ’ and I 'll say , ‘ Lost him ? |
| 26 | So she advertised it at a knock-down price , and then invented a competitive bid to hurry you into signing on the dotted line . |
| 27 | She saw him at the first lecture , and thrilled at his cultured voice . |
| 28 | She saw them at the same moment and hesitated , then she turned and began walking back the way she had come . |
| 29 | Once extended her own eye was pressed to the lens of the telescope that was herself ( was it her own eye 's lens she was looking through the wrong way ? ) and she saw herself at the other end . |
| 30 | She spotted us at the same time and after a long look , took her offspring and ambled away along the side of the mountain . |