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

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1 A twenty-five-foot wave flung itself at the canoe from an unexpected angle and before the crew could turn to absorb the blow , the Hokule'a rose up the face of the wave at forty-five degrees , and was capsized as it flew off the peak .
2 Mr Trelawney met us at the cave .
3 Ken met me at the entrance and guided me into a side room .
4 Not that the organs of perception apprehended it at the time .
5 ‘ HA HA HA HA HA HA , ’ the little girl went in the next picture-square , and ‘ BONK read the bubble as the typewriter hit her at the end of the joke .
6 In the 1470s the closest parallel is to be found in the north midlands , where Hastings ' possession of the key duchy of Lancaster offices put him at the head of the royal connection in the region .
7 In the 1470s the closest parallel is to be found in the north midlands , where Hastings ' possession of the key duchy of Lancaster offices put him at the head of the royal connection in the region .
8 Headmistress Shirley Cunningham greeted us at the school gates with her own highly appropriate joke .
9 Headmistress Shirley Cunningham greeted us at the school gates with her own highly appropriate joke .
10 But dear oh dear , headmistress Shirley Cunningham greeted us at the school gates with the world 's oldest joke .
11 Wood ladders greeted us at the most difficult places across the stream .
12 Theories of personal development , or of the historical and sociological development of humanity , which ignore it or dispense with it , make psychoanalytic theory less advanced than it was when Freud left it at the end of his life .
13 Corbett left them at The Bull , its narrow windows draped with black crepe in mourning for the landlord whose coffin now stood outside the main door , perched rather crazily on its wooden trestles .
14 Fear gripped her at the demoniacal glint in his dark eyes .
15 In winter the chestnut-seller installed himself at the edge of the market .
16 Lillee met him at the gate and escorted him to the middle .
17 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 .
18 McCoist flung himself at the ball and beat Lukic with a wonderful diving header .
19 Jane met him at the front door .
20 Sheffield went ahead after 30 minutes when Gage knocked the ball past Allen as he burst into the goalmouth and , though Walker parried both his shot and Deane 's follow-up , Deane beat him at the third attempt .
21 The planners , the Planning Committee , and the Council found themselves at the centre of the great deal of public agitation in which the reputation of the Council sank to a very low level .
22 For a further four years , Sukarno found himself at the centre of a political maelstrom of which the outcome seemed obscure .
23 The boy found me at the sweet shop across the street , and told me of the drama .
24 The coach dropped me at the Lofleiđ3ir , a palatial hotel .
25 Cambridge also contained a strong ‘ republican ’ group at this time , and while there is no proof that Wordsworth joined them at the University we find that he freely associated with ex-Cambridge liberals after his return from France in 1793 .
26 For a while Flavia Sherman joined them at the rail and stood with her hand resting on Joseph 's shoulder ; but she seemed restless and soon tired of watching the peasants at work in the fields .
27 It was 3-0 just before half-time as Shearer threw himself at the ball .
28 A ragged laugh escaped him at the startled look in her eyes .
29 Selina established herself at the circular steel table : evening paper , teacup , a single , deserved cigarette .
30 ‘ It was a brutal and cowardly attack on wretched creatures whose offences placed them at the bottom of the prison heap , ’ he said .
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