Example sentences of "[noun prp] [verb] [pron] at [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr Trelawney met us at the cave . |
| 2 | Ken met me at the entrance and guided me into a side room . |
| 3 | ‘ David played it at a soundcheck and when I asked him if it was about Shaun he just smiled and then denied it . |
| 4 | The civil rights marches created an opportunity for Ian Paisley to put himself at the head of plebeian Protestant resistance to the civil rights movement . |
| 5 | When we moved from Freiberg , Rebecca followed us at a distance . |
| 6 | Branson bought them at an auction which inflated the group 's price far beyond its true value . |
| 7 | He was awakened just before noon by the Master of Novices who announced that a message had come from John Benstede asking for Corbett to present himself at the castle immediately . |
| 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 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Lillee met him at the gate and escorted him to the middle . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | McCoist flung himself at the ball and beat Lukic with a wonderful diving header . |
| 16 | Jane met him at the front door . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | For a further four years , Sukarno found himself at the centre of a political maelstrom of which the outcome seemed obscure . |
| 19 | Cornelius found himself at a door . |
| 20 | Kim meets us at the door wearing a shimmering dress . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | It was 3-0 just before half-time as Shearer threw himself at the ball . |
| 24 | Each year groups from mainland Spain find themselves at the house of the White Dove , a name symbolic of the peace and comfort which they experience through his caring approach . |
| 25 | Selina established herself at the circular steel table : evening paper , teacup , a single , deserved cigarette . |
| 26 | They were part of Japan until Russia occupied them at the end of the second world war , and the Japanese feel they are justified in wanting them back . |
| 27 | 97 Squadron of Lancasters left us at the end of April to return to Coningsby in Lincolnshire , from whence they had come , and with the loss of life drastically cut down , some of the pressure and sadness lifted , to be replaced by pressure of a different kind . |
| 28 | Gray said everyone at the club is deeply disappointed over the current situation but they all trying to put it right . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | 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 . |