Example sentences of "had [verb] [pers pn] at " in BNC.
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| 1 | Had hated her at sight . |
| 2 | After tea , Miandad began settling the score with Salisbury , the young legspinner who had dismissed him at Lord 's . |
| 3 | All the way up on the ferry from Vienna , Earth , Jezrael kept remembering how he had treated her at the briefing . |
| 4 | This was style , as they had taught her at school . |
| 5 | She chuckled at her romanticism : even most of the historians who had taught her at Cambridge sported tattered leather jackets and greasy jeans . |
| 6 | He reminded her of a mathematics mistress who had taught her at school . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | If the children had found it and Rachel had pointed it at Matthew in a child 's game , I dread to think about the consequences . |
| 11 | Sitting on the ground in front of it were the two constables who had delayed him at the dovecot during the arms search . |
| 12 | You had to wear them at certain times . |
| 13 | That had frightened me at first but now I thought the Star Zoo was wonderful . |
| 14 | Tight in his hand he held the silver coin that Dad had given him at the front door . |
| 15 | I turned to find that a girl had joined me at the bar . |
| 16 | ‘ I did n't go to Oxford or Yale but he would have a good education if he had joined me at Birkenhead Institute . ’ |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Her mother had telephoned her at the nurses ' home where she had been living and had asked her if she could come home . |
| 20 | I had expected them at that stage to do the decent thing and wait for us to catch up but , smelling their first blood of the season , they continued in much the same fashion and eventually ran out 7–0 victors . |
| 21 | I had expected it at some point . |
| 22 | Most studies focus on school achievement , but this may be misleading because there is evidence to suggest that Afro-Caribbean and Asian students are more likely than white students to stay on in further education and some do manage to obtain academic qualifications that had eluded them at school ( Craft and Craft , 1983 ) , while one investigation suggests that young black people in inner city areas had gained better academic qualifications than white youth in the same areas ( Roberts , Duggan and Noble , 1983 ) , a finding borne out more generally by some other studies ( Brown , 1984 ) . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | This had dropped him at a garage in Cromcruach and had then mysteriously vanished before he could offer his thanks . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | It had surrounded her at her progressive private school , it surrounded her still at her fashionable newish university , but she herself lacked economic grasp and was uncomfortably aware of having lost , of late , a few arguments with outsiders , of having been thrown back on arguments about personalities . |
| 27 | Germon and Shane Thomson are two of the gentlemen of New Zealand cricket , and one run later Germon took Thomson 's word for it that he had caught him at extra cover , and walked . |
| 28 | If the words had chilled her at first hearing it was more because of the cold light they cast on the woman 's most intimate life than for any reference to her own innocence . |
| 29 | He had spent the morning in bed with Rosie , which was why he 'd missed his date down at the docks , she had rung him at ten to eight . |
| 30 | 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 . |