Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] [pron] at the [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 | 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 . |
| 5 | ‘ I told you at the fair — it 's out of your hands . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | I saw him at the odd university reunion . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | ’ Actually I saw you at the Central Conference last month . ’ |
| 11 | I heaved him at the other two and they went down , firing wild into the air . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | ‘ I started a similar scheme in Wellington , but then I did it at the same hour on the same day every week . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | ‘ She caught it at the public baths , ’ said his mum , with another one of her sniggers . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | She saw him at the first lecture , and thrilled at his cultured voice . |
| 20 | She saw them at the same moment and hesitated , then she turned and began walking back the way she had come . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | She spotted us at the same time and after a long look , took her offspring and ambled away along the side of the mountain . |
| 23 | Whether you choose a chateau hotel or stay in stately homes where families take in guests , splendour is the word and we found it at the majestic Chateau de Noirieux in Briollay , Anjou . |
| 24 | He knew that after shooting the second eight foot fall we would be free-falling thirty-feet onto a sloping rock shelf covered with a six inch sheet of tonnes and tonnes of the River Tees rushing over it every second ; hopefully ( if we hit it at the correct angle ) we would follow this shoot a further twenty five feet into the plunge pool at the bottom of the fall . |
| 25 | Well I called a meeting but I did n't think I advertised it well enough because there was a lot of interest and then I think we held it at the wrong time as well did n't we , |
| 26 | When Mrs Gray had produced two very passable cups of coffee , they seated themselves at the long deal kitchen table . |
| 27 | Yeah well they , they sold it at the wrong ti I mean they built it the wrong time did n't they ? |
| 28 | O'Toole and Finch even attended his funeral but — probably having drunk a little more than they 'd meant to , to ease their grief — they found themselves at the wrong funeral and mourning over the wrong body being buried . |
| 29 | They joined us at the far end of the church , Benjamin shouting at the Santerres to stand back . |
| 30 | They saw him at the same time as he realised he had n't understood what the man had said . |