Example sentences of "had [verb] [pron] at [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | All the way up on the ferry from Vienna , Earth , Jezrael kept remembering how he had treated her at the briefing . |
| 2 | In retrospect I can see that this implication can be drawn from the envelope , and I only wish I had realised it at the time . |
| 3 | In September 1960 Blake and his family arrived in Beirut where MI6 had enrolled him at the language school known as the Middle East Centre for Arab Studies . |
| 4 | Dalgliesh , who had heard him at a police concert , never ceased to be surprised that so narrow a chest and so slight a frame could produce such a powerful organ-toned bass . |
| 5 | Sitting on the ground in front of it were the two constables who had delayed him at the dovecot during the arms search . |
| 6 | Miss Scrimgeour had received one at the same time . |
| 7 | Tight in his hand he held the silver coin that Dad had given him at the front door . |
| 8 | I turned to find that a girl had joined me at the bar . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Her mother had telephoned her at the nurses ' home where she had been living and had asked her if she could come home . |
| 12 | Rangers , though , deserved some fortune because they had enjoyed none at the other end . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | This had dropped him at a garage in Cromcruach and had then mysteriously vanished before he could offer his thanks . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | He had pressed her to marry him , though he was considerably older than she was , and she had accepted him at a time of great emotional exhaustion . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | He had met them at the Piazza Venezia two hours before . |
| 19 | I had met her at the England-USA match in Birmingham and she had offered to help me with my career . |
| 20 | Sally-Anne had met him at a party ; he had long been settled in England , and he had been impressed and amused by her fiery conversation and her obvious intelligence . |
| 21 | When I asked Lee what 's going on , he told me this guy had met him at the airport and that he had a letter and had said he 'd caddied for Henry Cotton . |
| 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 | Dan Sandford had met us at the railway station in Addis Ababa and had brought with him Omar , our prospective headman , to clear our baggage through customs and deal with the other formalities . |
| 24 | He had gagged for hours following the ordeal , convinced that one of the dog 's hairs had lodged itself at the very back of his throat where his fingers were unable to reach . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | She knew Gwen Evans only slightly ; she had seen her at the funeral , and previous to that a couple of times , but the memory stuck . |
| 27 | He had recognised her at once when he had seen her at the funeral , and even then her looks , though pale and wan , had surprised him with their purity . |
| 28 | Many of them had seen it at the synagogue meeting on the previous night , but now in the daylight they were able to examine it more closely and exclaim at its resplendence . |
| 29 | DS Tony Bull , of Clacton CID , said police officers were anxious to hear from anyone who had seen anything at the premises between about 7.45pm on Sunday and 7.30am on Monday . |
| 30 | Well I , I had done it at the interval . |