Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] we at the [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 Mr Trelawney met us at the cave .
2 Headmistress Shirley Cunningham greeted us at the school gates with her own highly appropriate joke .
3 Headmistress Shirley Cunningham greeted us at the school gates with her own highly appropriate joke .
4 But dear oh dear , headmistress Shirley Cunningham greeted us at the school gates with the world 's oldest joke .
5 Last Wednesday we invited the 4 British students studying at the University to visit us at the hotel for dinner .
6 Kim meets us at the door wearing a shimmering dress .
7 So the real question facing us at the moment is not whether there should be a relationship , or whether there should be a link but in what way we should modernize it and arrange it today .
8 97 Squadron of Lancasters left us at the end of April to return to Coningsby in Lincolnshire , from whence they had come , and with the loss of life drastically cut down , some of the pressure and sadness lifted , to be replaced by pressure of a different kind .
9 It was cooler and grey , and a brisk sou'wester spiked with a salty drizzle met us at the crag .
10 ‘ A man met us at the door and said his wife Sheila Brown was still in the bungalow .
11 ‘ I 'll never forget the reception the crowd gave us at the end . ’
12 Our host greeted us at the entrance gate , shaking me by the hand , bowing to Olivia , embracing the mali and frowning at Balvinder Singh .
13 Melford and a group of bowmen greeted us at the gate .
14 Anyhow , we prefer our horses to like us at the end of it . ’
15 My Dad met us at the airport and , of course , the first thing that I wanted to do was to see my younger brother Russell .
16 Olivia Durdin-Robertson meets us at the porch , under the protective wing of Horus .
17 The song of a nightingale greeted us at the entrance to Hotel Glade .
18 And Taylor said : ‘ At last , our young players now have the facilities to put us at the top of the world game . ’
19 As Bromberg tells us at the beginning of her excellent mixture of history of science and politics , ‘ The US government has supported a research programme in fusion energy since 1951 , and in the 30 years through 1980 it has expended more than $2 billion .
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