Example sentences of "[pers pn] had [verb] [pron] at the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I did n't realise that I had lost it at the party . ’ |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Well I , I had done it at the interval . |
| 4 | I had met her at the England-USA match in Birmingham and she had offered to help me with my career . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | They had warned her at the start there would be complicated things going on , and not to try to understand them , that her job was looking after the baby . |
| 10 | Rangers , though , deserved some fortune because they had enjoyed none at the other end . |
| 11 | She would find one , they had told her at the training depot , at most main-line stations . |
| 12 | It had soon passed , but it had alarmed her at the time . |
| 13 | It had upset him at the time , but you had to get over stuff like that or you 'd go to the wall . |
| 14 | He had met them at the Piazza Venezia two hours before . |
| 15 | He had recognised her at once when he had seen her at the funeral , and even then her looks , though pale and wan , had surprised him with their purity . |
| 16 | He had seen them at the County Show , where he had gone for the rabbits , all those girls with plaits and scrubbed faces and clean gloves , doing an exhibition ride . |
| 17 | If he had played me at the same age he 'd have given me three blacks start and a beating . |
| 18 | Somehow — it did not seem diplomatic to enquire too deeply just how — he had missed her at the arranged spot . |
| 19 | All the way up on the ferry from Vienna , Earth , Jezrael kept remembering how he had treated her at the briefing . |
| 20 | It was as though he had joined them at the table , and it was n't doing D'Arcy 's appetite any good at all . |
| 21 | The Warden ( Vice-Chancellor ) Duff assured them that he was now not nearly so odd as he was when he had known him at the choir school of King 's College . |
| 22 | His fingernails were broken and bloody from when he had thrown himself at the door and torn at it , in the moment when he realised that he had been shut into the stall , and what was going to happen next . |
| 23 | When one of the witnesses pointed out that the testator had not signed the will the testator replied that he had signed it at the top and that it could be signed anywhere . |
| 24 | Often , after he had left her at the door of her apartment , he would ridicule himself An old man with a Pygmalion fantasy . |
| 25 | This was the strangest thing that had ever happened to her ; he had hurt her at the beginning , but now that was gone . |
| 26 | Many of them had seen it at the synagogue meeting on the previous night , but now in the daylight they were able to examine it more closely and exclaim at its resplendence . |