Example sentences of "[vb past] me at the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ He met me at the station … ’ |
| 2 | Rich and Syb met me at the station . |
| 3 | I had supposed that Aunt Louise would be in bed , but she met me at the door ; opened it , in fact , and held it ready for me to come in , because there was something she was bursting to tell me : ‘ I 'm not staying in this cold place a day longer . ’ |
| 4 | My faithful driver , Murphy , met me at the gate , taking my bags and walking me past the vagrants and money changers to his car , an old American model that had become something of a collector 's item . |
| 5 | Ken met me at the entrance and guided me into a side room . |
| 6 | 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 ) . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | ‘ They stopped me at the border and arrested me . ’ |
| 9 | They dropped me at The Pightle door . |
| 10 | It 's difficult to explain , but a part of me never really believed I should see her again , even after what they told me at the theatre . |
| 11 | ‘ They told me at the desk downstairs that you were here . ’ |
| 12 | Yes , indeed , they told me at the tabac , the old building had stood until a year or so ago . |
| 13 | 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 ! |
| 14 | ‘ 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 . |
| 15 | They told me at the hospital that you 've worked with him in the past , so I thought you might be able to help me with my general enquiries . ’ |
| 16 | Sitting in Casey 's office with a group of people sometime in the autumn of 1985 , John McMahon , his deputy , suddenly said : ‘ You wo n't believe what Bud McFarlane just told me at the White House . ’ |
| 17 | Bunny joined me at the bar and bought us both another drink . |
| 18 | The auberge owner joined me at the door and stared with contempt at the sky . |
| 19 | Taff joined me at the gun . |
| 20 | He crawled out of the trench and joined me at the gun . |
| 21 | He joined me at the table and poured out two generous measures of the clear liquid from the bottle . |
| 22 | They telephoned me at the St. Ermin 's Hotel , where Mollie and I were staying while our house in Smith Square was under repair , to pledge their support . |
| 23 | Actually , she telephoned me at the Lab just before two . |
| 24 | You telephoned me at the hotel and had that long conversation with me . ’ |
| 25 | The tailor measured me at the height of the deluge . |
| 26 | In fact , they showed me at the back , she 's got the vertical |
| 27 | But another sister followed me at the Dowsons when I left to get married . |
| 28 | We went dancing in discos and an Italian boy , Giacomo , kissed me at the end of a dance . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | What interested me at the time was whether the ‘ naturally ’ weak non-metallic crystals could be made strong too . |