Example sentences of "[noun prp] [verb] [pron] at the " 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 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 .
4 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 .
5 Headmistress Shirley Cunningham greeted us at the school gates with her own highly appropriate joke .
6 Headmistress Shirley Cunningham greeted us at the school gates with her own highly appropriate joke .
7 But dear oh dear , headmistress Shirley Cunningham greeted us at the school gates with the world 's oldest joke .
8 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 .
9 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 .
10 Lillee met him at the gate and escorted him to the middle .
11 McCoist flung himself at the ball and beat Lukic with a wonderful diving header .
12 Jane met him at the front door .
13 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 .
14 For a further four years , Sukarno found himself at the centre of a political maelstrom of which the outcome seemed obscure .
15 Kim meets us at the door wearing a shimmering dress .
16 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 .
17 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 .
18 It was 3-0 just before half-time as Shearer threw himself at the ball .
19 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 .
20 Selina established herself at the circular steel table : evening paper , teacup , a single , deserved cigarette .
21 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 .
22 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 .
23 Gray said everyone at the club is deeply disappointed over the current situation but they all trying to put it right .
24 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 .
25 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 .
26 In Cairo , Stirling based himself at the flat of his brother , Peter , who was an official at the British Embassy .
27 It was planned in 1725 and an engraving by Sutton Nicholls shows it at the north side of the garden , 300 feet long with forty-one windows on the ground floor .
28 Rich and Syb met me at the station .
29 Inside the kitchen , while Carrie busied herself at the range , Seb hovered behind her , wanting to touch her , but not daring to , in case she objected .
30 The boy showed little talent for the business and hardly earned the £2 10s Mr Marshall paid him at the end of the week .
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