Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] i at the " in BNC.

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1 Ken met me at the entrance and guided me into a side room .
2 Some girls I knew had arranged for their two penfriends to meet me at the Gare du Nord and , somehow , we recognised one another .
3 The boy found me at the sweet shop across the street , and told me of the drama .
4 The coach dropped me at the Lofleiđ3ir , a palatial hotel .
5 Much to my surprise , Karen greeted me at the front door with a glass of champagne in her hand and , still more unusual , a smile on her face .
6 Dorje greeted me at the bottom and pulled me by the hand across the slabs of ice which had cracked into pontoons , barely locked together .
7 Rich and Syb met me at the station .
8 Friday evening saw me at the National Gallery with her boyfriend and , quite literally , hundreds of other people , to the opening of the annual exhibition , sponsored this year by BP , of the Scottish Artists and Craftsmen .
9 He figured it was worth a nickel to call me at the Globe , and he 's not a wasteful man . ’
10 But another sister followed me at the Dowsons when I left to get married .
11 The tailor measured me at the height of the deluge .
12 The effect on listed adjoining properties , Donithorn , Riley House and er , the other one , the name escapes me at the moment , erm , and that it will give insufficient curbage to Riley House when er , whatever development takes place there .
13 On making a very despondent journey home my wife greeted me at the door with the astounding statement that the property had been found and handed into a branch of a building society and the member of the staff had telephoned to inform my wife that it was there to collect .
14 Her warm and wide smile greeted me at the door and I forgot for a while the riddles and innuendos which surrounded Brian Harley and hid the killer of Froggy Davies .
15 ‘ Easy — a stroke of genius hit me at the height of the bombing , General .
16 Against the advice given me at the Centre , quite deliberately I decided to have neither a counsellor nor a healer .
17 The auberge owner joined me at the door and stared with contempt at the sky .
18 ‘ She was dynamic , had tremendous energy and was thoroughly decisive , ’ Bramall told me at the launch of a book , The Chiefs , which he has written with Gen Sir William Jackson .
19 The Champ greets me at the door to his mother 's house in Louisville .
20 Freya thanked me at the end of her letter for ‘ taking the time to care about a subject so little understood ’ , which was a sentence I heard often from girls in one way or another , in researching this book .
21 A sternfaced Sergeant meets me at the entrance to the big house .
22 ‘ What a thing to tell me at the start of a visit here ! ’
23 I was still very pleased , however , when the statistician Ian Hodge told me at the end of the year that I had moved from being 156th in the world 100 metres ranking list in 1985 to 4th in 1986 !
24 Taff joined me at the gun .
25 My first school expelled me at the end of second year .
26 Although these omissions suited me at the time , I have since found them incredible to the point of doubting my own powers of recollection , but when I checked recently with my sister , she confirmed their accuracy .
27 oh , I 've forgotten , you know my brain leaves me at the most important time , do n't forget to post that will you ?
28 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 ) .
29 Sundowner time found me at the Clachaig Inn ( JTR either went there or to the Temperance Hotel in Glencoe Village on the edge of Loch Leven ) after twenty-odd miles wandering and walking .
30 Bunny joined me at the bar and bought us both another drink .
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