Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] [adv] at the [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Once when I was leaving for Europe , he came to see me off at the airport , bringing a parting gift .
2 Oh , when she came with the baby and the young girl to see me off at the station , I was unable to speak .
3 One was the passage from the fifteenth chapter of Genesis in which Abraham cut up a heifer , a goat and a ram and laid them out at the Lord 's command , driving the vultures away , falling at last into a deep sleep with ‘ a horror of great darkness ’ .
4 Saturday , 13th : Arrived at Delhi airport over two hours late , at 06.30. met me personally at the barrier and eased me through the arrival formalities .
5 In one lightning movement the two fishermen picked up two pails of stinking fish heads and flung them lovingly at the Lionisers ' feet .
6 A member of the local parish community will collect your son/daughter from home , bring him/her to SPRED then bring him/her home at the end of the session .
7 I am totally convinced that the people in Holyhead want you to put things on , pick them up at the door , drop them off , teach them how to do it er and drop them back again .
8 But because there 's a demand for it , the buses run to the school and pick them up at the school .
9 Trevor and then if you 've got all those bits and pieces together send them in at the end of the week using this commission claim form .
10 You want them up at the top of the sheet , where they 're going to be seen first ( they look that good ) .
11 I left them in the self-induced bedlam of a Harvey Nichols changing room , and promised to meet them later at the flat to examine our spoils , then went to meet Dee .
12 A sound engineer was supposed to fade them out at the start of the first edition in July '67 , but failed .
13 The scheme certainly helped me right at the beginning when I was starting up as a criminal lawyer .
14 This pendulum visualisation helped me considerably at the point where I was just about to master the hovering stage .
15 She marvelled even more though when Cara 's basic efficiency surfaced as she declared , ‘ By my calculations you 'll still have time to get down to Dover after you 've dropped me off at the airport . ’
16 It was pink , not red like Hank Marvin 's , which disappointed me rather at the time .
17 He was soon embarrassed , therefore , to find himself back at the plague village , helping Lucie and Izzie to settle into one of the cottages , wondering why he had not left with the rest .
18 After some time he found himself down at the Green , where Emily had not come with him ; and remembered Emily , and decided that he must ask her to become engaged to him before he went , to wait for him ; would she agree ?
19 ‘ Now then , ’ he said , crouching under the eave and seating himself comfortably at the foot of his bed , ‘ what 's it all about , eh ? ’
20 we 'll have to let them catch you right at the right , where the music tells you too , dum , oh
21 I want you down at the track as soon as possible .
22 The three words were not a great deal for Carrie to pin her hopes to , but she had a warm and happy glow deep inside her as she let herself in at the door of the cottage .
23 Afterwards she found herself back at the Collector 's bedside in the same churning confusion of day and night .
24 I said that I thought it would be alright and made arrangements to meet him again at the church on the following Saturday afternoon to discuss details .
25 He wrote round to fifteen builders on 22nd March and , with what today would be regarded as incredible naïveté , asked them to meet him together at the Office of Works on 24th March .
26 Ruth had felt it from the moment he had picked her up at the hotel and once again they had headed for the Cartuja site of the Expo .
27 ‘ Master Daunbey , ’ Mandeville caught him up at the corner of the gallery .
28 But his victory at Stoke on Saturday has him back at the top of the list .
29 Six o'clock found her downstairs at the kitchen grate , readying the little house for the day .
30 He apologized and helped her down at the end of the road .
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