Example sentences of "[vb past] [pron] at [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then he took the stones from their pouch and laid them at the bottom of the Bowl . |
| 2 | ‘ He met me at the station … ’ |
| 3 | I had supposed that Aunt Louise would be in bed , but she met me at the door ; opened it , in fact , and held it ready for me to come in , because there was something she was bursting to tell me : ‘ I 'm not staying in this cold place a day longer . ’ |
| 4 | Rich and Syb met me at the station . |
| 5 | My faithful driver , Murphy , met me at the gate , taking my bags and walking me past the vagrants and money changers to his car , an old American model that had become something of a collector 's item . |
| 6 | On the appointed Saturday in October , Micky met me at the railway station and drove me ( in a fairly elderly Morris Oxford with a canvas hood ) right down the High as far as the University Church , and there he parked ( no problem then ) . |
| 7 | Ken met me at the entrance and guided me into a side room . |
| 8 | I first met them at a trial . |
| 9 | One met them at every turn asking plaintively , ‘ Has edyone god edy andihysterbine tableds ? ’ |
| 10 | He met them at the gate and was smiling . |
| 11 | In short , the consumer called the tune and the operators who prospered were those who best identified the needs of the consumers and met them at the right price . |
| 12 | He met them at the gates of the airfield ( still a debris of contractors ' equipment surrounded by barbed wire ) and informed them gravely that if they entered — no difficult matter — they would be breaking the law . |
| 13 | Although the other judges would not look at the assessors ' lists , Burn met them at the hall and compared his list of preferences to theirs . |
| 14 | ‘ I met them at the same time , ’ Tim recalls . |
| 15 | His Lordship Monboddo , wearing a little round hat and a farmer 's suit , met them at the gate . |
| 16 | And er also many engineers when they were out their time , they went to Glasgow and for a few years , he , everybody who went from Galashiels , word got through to him and he met them at the station and got them settled in their digs in Glasgow . |
| 17 | He led them at a smart pace along the path where the railway had been and though they grumbled about the branches scratching their legs his sister and his brothers followed him . |
| 18 | The rest clambered into their saddles , and followed him unquestioningly as he led them at a canter downslope to where the hills opened out and patches of ground could be seen where the snow was melting . |
| 19 | The next tunnel forked , turned left , turned right again , and other tunnels led off from it ; and Fand led them at an even pace along a course that seemed to have no sense . |
| 20 | The disorder that had seemed to him for decades to determine the course of events regrouped itself like a pile of iron filings suddenly organized by a magnet , and he had a flash of optimism when it appeared quite possible that men in the days to come might wish to find out more than concerned them at the moment . |
| 21 | My results were received with general disbelief when I announced them at a conference near Oxford . |
| 22 | I got nothing at the table right . |
| 23 | One of the lads asked me at a dance how I had earned my living before I had got married . |
| 24 | ‘ Do you really wonder , ’ he asked me at an embassy function in west Beirut , ‘ why we wo n't claim compensation ? |
| 25 | Hawkins , a Devon merchant , had seen that the demand for slaves from Africa was increasing in South America , and in 1562 he sailed — in the way many Englishmen were to do in the seventeenth and eighteenth century — to West Africa , bought slaves , took them to the Caribbean ports , and sold them at a profit . |
| 26 | And he h He sold them at a profit of thirty three and a third percent which is a third . |
| 27 | They told you when you asked them at the club . |
| 28 | I got them at a craft fair at farm . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | The printed text of Taskopruzade says that Molla Arab , having studied under Khidr Bey ( Hizir Bey ) at the Sultan medrese in Bursa , became his at the Darulhadis medrese in Edirne . |