Example sentences of "[pron] had [verb] [pron] at " in BNC.
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| 1 | I did n't realise that I had lost it at the party . ’ |
| 2 | I had never met the head of governors , Dr Arnold Barton , though I had seen him at several functions , a thin , tall , stern-faced , lantern-jawed streak of a man who rarely seemed to smile . |
| 3 | Was I sure I had seen it at all ? |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Well I , I had done it at the interval . |
| 6 | I had met her at the England-USA match in Birmingham and she had offered to help me with my career . |
| 7 | But I had bought mine at a time when I 'd luckily accumulated some nice big fees , and she is just what I need , in every way . |
| 8 | I had expected them at that stage to do the decent thing and wait for us to catch up but , smelling their first blood of the season , they continued in much the same fashion and eventually ran out 7–0 victors . |
| 9 | I had expected it at some point . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Eric and I had to restrain him at times when he wanted to do something like throw little Paul into the water to see if he 'd float , or like when he wanted to fell a tree over the railway line that goes through Porteneil , but as a rule we got on surprisingly well , even though it rankled to see Eric , who was the same age as Blyth , obviously in fear of him . |
| 12 | ‘ Now there is one of nature 's gentlemen , ’ someone had told me at Monaco in 1975 when I first met Mario . |
| 13 | He came back from London and someone had to tell him at the station . |
| 14 | She projected a kind of agelessness , which had made her at the same time an object of attention from both the Young Women 's Fitness Class and the Over-50s Club . |
| 15 | The decision had cheered him up ; the bustle created by his demands reaffirmed the show of his importance ; and he could still feel a breeze from the pure air which had wreathed him at Hause Point . |
| 16 | It had begun to rain , the same sad summer drizzle which had greeted me at Kings Cross . |
| 17 | Looking back to her first encounter with Balbinder a year ago , when she had visited him at his previous school , she said that she had been shocked . |
| 18 | A close school friend , Paula Bolwell , 19 , said Sarah had been unhappy when she had visited her at college . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | He had looked older when she had seen him at St Petrock 's ; but he had been scowling then , and now he was looking quite friendly and interested — rather like James , who sat in front of them regarding them both with faithful brown eyes . |
| 21 | The young receptionist gave no hint of recognition , even though she had seen him at least a dozen times before . |
| 22 | She had seen him at 5pm and there had been no major problems . |
| 23 | Or possibly she had seen nothing at all , and it was pure fantasy . |
| 24 | She had seen it at first hand , treated children who were victims . |
| 25 | She had called him at home to check on what time he was coming to pick |
| 26 | We were therefore very disappointed when Ms de Jonghe found she had to cancel everything at practically the last minute . |
| 27 | He had pressed her to marry him , though he was considerably older than she was , and she had accepted him at a time of great emotional exhaustion . |
| 28 | She had met him at one of those dinner parties which had now become the nexus of her social life , replacing conferences and meetings , although few of the individuals had changed . |
| 29 | She had hit him at lunchtime — her feelings now were even more murderous . |
| 30 | Her last words to him had been a curse yet she had felt him at her side on the day she had marched to York with Richard Oastler . |