Example sentences of "[vb pp] [pron] at the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's given everyone at the club a lift . ’ |
| 2 | Against the advice given me at the Centre , quite deliberately I decided to have neither a counsellor nor a healer . |
| 3 | The wedding , planned for November … ’ ) she had learned that she was the goddaughter of Lady Bartlett ( that mother of sons … ) and had joined them at the end of July . |
| 4 | It was as though he had joined them at the table , and it was n't doing D'Arcy 's appetite any good at all . |
| 5 | I turned to find that a girl had joined me at the bar . |
| 6 | We would have expected them at the beginning , and as we are still at the beginning , they ought to be here . |
| 7 | As time and cost constraints make extensive physical experimentation increasingly difficult to justify , the transport sector has installed itself at the forefront of the model revolution . |
| 8 | Dawn Allenby , a masochist if ever there was one , should have prostrated herself at the feet of Desmond Fairchild , a sadist in a trilby hat worn with the brim turned up all the way round like vaudeville comic . |
| 9 | Her mother had telephoned her at the nurses ' home where she had been living and had asked her if she could come home . |
| 10 | Er I should have reminded everybody at the beginning , when you wish when you start to speak , would you please introduce yourself , give your name and who you represent . |
| 11 | Beryl 's words had impressed him at the time because they summed up his own vague feeling that what had happened and what was happening might be consequences of the old man 's cynical , even malicious contrivings . |
| 12 | A kindly lorry driver on his way to North Wales , chatting of his own daughter and his home , had dropped her at the roundabout at the top of the Banbury Road at about lunch-time . |
| 13 | ( e ) the vulnerability or otherwise of the target 's board ( the offeror will particularly focus on the board 's achievements and also on any areas where individual directors could be said to have advantaged themselves at the expense of the company ( eg golden parachute arrangements ( see para 18.5.12 below ) ) ; |
| 14 | yeah people have seen them at the discos and , will do , and er even , even those that gives patterns or designs people are buying , have in the house now instead of watching television , sit and watch the pattern on the wall er , but erm |
| 15 | He recognised Kurz and Hinterstoisser , he 'd seen them at the hotel ; strikingly handsome fellows , especially Kurz , an officer of the Wehrmacht , blue-eyed , blond-haired . |
| 16 | I 've seen them at the shop , paying their bills . |
| 17 | He had seen them at the County Show , where he had gone for the rabbits , all those girls with plaits and scrubbed faces and clean gloves , doing an exhibition ride . |
| 18 | And I have seen them at the mid-day rest hour of twelve to one , I have seen a ploughman come into the stable , shake up the straw in the stall of his leading beast and lie down there and sleep . |
| 19 | But even before the farmers had come up to the market someone had probably met them at the station , because each dealer had a tout — a local man . |
| 20 | He had met them at the Piazza Venezia two hours before . |
| 21 | A young man in an immaculate dark blue suit took over from the young woman who had met them at the elevator and led them into a vast room , furnished with antiques . |
| 22 | Now imagine that instead of sitting behind his desk your boss had met you at the door and ushered you to a seat , then pulled up a chair next to you . |
| 23 | Anyway I realized I 'd have missed you at the Club , so I turned round and set off back . |
| 24 | ‘ I have n't seen you at the station recently , ’ said the Station Master . |
| 25 | — as she might have said herself at the time ) . |
| 26 | A serving-maid to all intents and purposes , she had presented herself at the door which gave access to the rear stairs , the garden stairs , which led to the royal apartments . |
| 27 | Nancy Ball had only been with Hugo for a few months and it was much longer than that since Harriet had visited him at the office . |
| 28 | Wickham suspected he looked dubious because she hurried on : ‘ Oh , I know you 're thinking I might not have noticed him at the bar . |
| 29 | She plans to launch her own designer clothes label but that is one area where her younger sister has pipped her at the post . |
| 30 | It had soon passed , but it had alarmed her at the time . |