Example sentences of "[noun] [pron] [vb past] [vb pp] [pers pn] at " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was deeply in love with an Over Stowey woman called Ann Rice , but was forced into marriage to a half-mad girl who had visited him at his shelter and who bore him two illegitimate children . |
| 2 | I bought it for £25 plus £3.10 for the tax and insurance from a taxi driver who had abandoned it at Middlesbrough station with a blown head gasket . |
| 3 | He reminded her of a mathematics mistress who had taught her at school . |
| 4 | It had begun to rain , the same sad summer drizzle which had greeted me at Kings Cross . |
| 5 | After tea , Miandad began settling the score with Salisbury , the young legspinner who had dismissed him at Lord 's . |
| 6 | A year in Milan , Italy 's great fashion centre , had sounded close to perfect — at least , that was how the woman who 'd interviewed her at International Models had made it sound . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | She recalled the Jewish woman who had lectured them at Holmsly Manor . |
| 9 | ‘ He would verbalize his sadnesses , throw his arms about as he told elaborate stories concerning people who had upset him at the time , even when going into sad tales about people who were important to him . |
| 10 | There was a fairly large number of letters about him , sent in the last few months both to Jackson 's and to Viola Machin by people who had known him at one time or another . |
| 11 | Miranda thought of M. Apéritif last night , and decided she would let him go further when she next saw him , in spite of the lizard darting of his small and oddly hard tongue in the kiss she 'd allowed him at the door of the hotel . |
| 12 | The decision had cheered him up ; the bustle created by his demands reaffirmed the show of his importance ; and he could still feel a breeze from the pure air which had wreathed him at Hause Point . |
| 13 | At school , the few masters who had noticed him at all had tried vaguely to direct him towards science . |
| 14 | She chuckled at her romanticism : even most of the historians who had taught her at Cambridge sported tattered leather jackets and greasy jeans . |
| 15 | The other occupants of the boat were a Marine sergeant and one of the soldiers who had found her at the village . |
| 16 | He 'd said it once too often , and this time she 'd taken him at his word . |
| 17 | Sitting on the ground in front of it were the two constables who had delayed him at the dovecot during the arms search . |