Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] [pron] at the " in BNC.

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1 IBM Corp started relaxing its strict accounting practices way back in 1984 , just as the company 's core mainframe business began to lose its impetus , although no-one realised it at the time .
2 Started with this device this is the thing I made it at the grammar school when I was working there .
3 Course , I 'ad to 'ang about a bit until I saw yer go out , and afterwards I met 'im at the Elephant an' Castle .
4 When I met her at the airport after she flew in to London from Los Angeles recently , I caught my breath when I saw her because she just looked so lovely .
5 He thrust his hands deep into his pockets , hunching his shoulders as he continued , ‘ I met her at the party I threw to celebrate taking over control of the company .
6 I met him at the Labour Club .
7 ‘ My name is Lockwood , ’ I said , when I met him at the gate to his house .
8 I met them at the same time , ’ Tim recalls .
9 Self conscious in my normal clothes I seated myself at the rear of the upper stalls .
10 I got nothing at the table right .
11 " I got mine at the cut price place at the end of the Queenstown Road . "
12 Before I had really recovered , I found myself at the railway station , where I said goodbye to Dulcie and we went our separate ways , promising to keep in touch , as one does .
13 Then the talk turned to the West and I found myself at the centre of questions .
14 The scene shifted and I found myself at the head of a stairwell , aware that yet another place might be reached but only by somersaulting over the banister and walking my feet down the opposite wall as one might descend a defile in a crag .
15 ‘ I suppose I took the wrong path , ’ he said , ‘ and I found myself at the edge of a cliff . ’
16 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 .
17 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 .
18 As I told her at the time there were several possibilities . ’
19 Erm , thought it would be nice at handicrafts afternoon and then we could throw the handicraft meeting open to anybody if I told them at the meeting before were going to have it .
20 Well I mean , I told them at the time I was against the of a sixteen month deal .
21 Christ Almighty , I told you at the time , did n't I ?
22 I told you at the fair — it 's out of your hands .
23 I told you at the time to stick out and then she would have to get a housekeeper in .
24 I told you at the beginning how it would be .
25 I identified her at the mortuary not an hour since . ’
26 I do n't think he meant it , looking back , but I believed him at the time .
27 I threw myself at the door and tried desperately to open it .
28 I telephoned him at the shipping company , but was told that he was not in the office .
29 ‘ My father and eldest brother established an estate agency and I joined them at the age of 17 .
30 She indicated the pretty flower-patterned basin for me to wash my hands in , then I joined them at the table .
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