Example sentences of "[verb] [pers pn] at the [noun sg] and " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ken met me at the entrance and guided me into a side room . |
| 2 | He met them at the gate and was smiling . |
| 3 | And er also many engineers when they were out their time , they went to Glasgow and for a few years , he , everybody who went from Galashiels , word got through to him and he met them at the station and got them settled in their digs in Glasgow . |
| 4 | Although the other judges would not look at the assessors ' lists , Burn met them at the hall and compared his list of preferences to theirs . |
| 5 | We decided to use our green ballot box that we made and painted for the Maastricht campaign for people to post their cards into so that we can count them at the end and post them all together . |
| 6 | ‘ They stopped me at the border and arrested me . ’ |
| 7 | Crilly tells me to meet him at the Hope and Vixen in half an hour . |
| 8 | We went out to meet him at the airport and Signe hugged him and told him how much she 'd missed him and how she had cooked all his favourite foods for one vast homecoming meal but she had had an urgent phone call about sickness in the family and the dinner had all burned up so now we must eat in a restaurant . |
| 9 | His partner had suddenly remembered her brothers were to meet her at the door and take her home ( an old trick , this ) . |
| 10 | Tell them what you 're going to tell them before you tell them , and then summarise it at the end and tell them what you told them . |
| 11 | The man came back from the bank in a van and the other men stopped it at the gate and grabbed the money . ’ |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | ‘ The car will collect you at the airport and then you will be brought to the Hacienda de Nieve . |
| 15 | He preferred the sort of woman who put her foot in it with grammar and things ; that way he could feel superior by correcting her at the time and having a laugh at her expense later with his male colleagues . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | With Matthew able to drive , he dropped us at the start and picked us up at the other end , and we arrived within 2 minutes of each other , which was remarkable because we were all 3/4 hour late ! |
| 18 | Bunny joined me at the bar and bought us both another drink . |
| 19 | The auberge owner joined me at the door and stared with contempt at the sky . |
| 20 | He joined me at the table and poured out two generous measures of the clear liquid from the bottle . |
| 21 | You telephoned me at the hotel and had that long conversation with me . ’ |
| 22 | For a while Flavia Sherman joined them at the rail and stood with her hand resting on Joseph 's shoulder ; but she seemed restless and soon tired of watching the peasants at work in the fields . |
| 23 | I 'll tell you what , meet me at the border and I 'll bring you the ways myself . |
| 24 | Stein came along , smelt the drink , refused to listen to Rough 's explanation , picked up the glass and threw it at the keeper and marched off . |
| 25 | My mum washed mine at the weekend and they 're in a pile on my floor and I have n't been arsed so I 'm just sleeping on the mattress with the bare duvet . |
| 26 | He picked up his book again , opened it at the marker and settled himself in his seat . |
| 27 | I look back now and think we are actually still doing that , not in the military aspect , in civvy street , we 've got people , real nice people , you talk to them on the street and you get them at the kill and the hackles go up , you can see the adrenalin pumping round their body , you can see the kind of excitement in their eyes and you can see the terrier men grabbing by the the scruff of the neck , bleeding and then throwing . |
| 28 | Well erm erm had a word with erm who was about oh fourth in line in the erm education hierarchy in those days and erm then spoke to who was the Chief Education Officer and er , I think they were a bit erm , bit apprehensive about employing a blind typist because erm it was something that they had never had any experience of but in the end they thought it was worth a try and er especially after supporting me at the College and erm also perhaps they had in mind that many of the erm employees would be leaving if war broke out and erm , in fact by that time war had probably started |
| 29 | Alan , I 'm sorry if I 'm sort of trying to put you at the end and continue and I I do n't intend it like that . |
| 30 | The reasons that we need guidelines now is we had n't time to study them at the time and up to the present moment , as far as I 'm aware there 's one section that 's just been formed a couple of months ago . |