Example sentences of "[noun] [vb past] [pers pn] at [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Their landlord visited them at the flat to recover back rent . |
| 32 | She thinks the microwave ‘ has changed our perceptions of time , much as telephones changed them at the turn of the century ’ . |
| 33 | He had a two-stroke lead over playing partner Frost with two holes to play before the defending champion pipped him at the post with birdies on 17 and 18 . |
| 34 | Duke reckoned it at a mile and three-quarters ; the most conservative estimates put it at over a mile . |
| 35 | The tailor measured me at the height of the deluge . |
| 36 | As the spacesuit folded in on itself like one of the Transformers toys that had fascinated the boys in Ace 's school for a brief season , Defries joined her at the window . |
| 37 | Such a despair seized him at the sound of his own acceptance that he made a half-hearted attempt even then to deliver himself . |
| 38 | I hardly know what I meant to do — confront him , accuse him , bring it home to him that hellfire awaited him at the reckoning if he did not confess his sin and pay the price of it now . ’ |
| 39 | On making a very despondent journey home my wife greeted me at the door with the astounding statement that the property had been found and handed into a branch of a building society and the member of the staff had telephoned to inform my wife that it was there to collect . |
| 40 | Mrs Rose left him at the station and returned alone to London . |
| 41 | Her warm and wide smile greeted me at the door and I forgot for a while the riddles and innuendos which surrounded Brian Harley and hid the killer of Froggy Davies . |
| 42 | ‘ Lissa , ’ Adam greeted her at the door . |
| 43 | His commitment to the reform of secondary education was unrelenting ; his position as Archbishop placed him at the heart of the religious problem ; his alliance with Butler — for whom he was ‘ all bulge and brain ’ — eventually tamed the opposition of the Churches . |
| 44 | ‘ Easy — a stroke of genius hit me at the height of the bombing , General . |
| 45 | The Norwich City and Scotland striker , a figure of such unmitigated misfortune that money deserted him at the height of what ought to have been a highly lucrative and rewarding career . |
| 46 | A small , brown-haired woman met him at the door , surrounded by a group of noisy , dirty children who eyed Corbett boldly , then ran to hide and giggle behind their mother 's skirts . |
| 47 | John Browne 's neighbours buried him at the gable-end of his humble cottage . |
| 48 | ‘ No , his analyst told me at a party in New York . ’ |
| 49 | A dog ate him at the bus stop ! |
| 50 | The auberge owner joined me at the door and stared with contempt at the sky . |
| 51 | " His father says that Lorrimer rang him at a quarter to nine . |
| 52 | But people reached her at the office and the office had a rule banning employees ' home addresses being revealed . |
| 53 | Although my work as CBC Production Manager kept me at a desk rather than on the production floor , I was occasionally able to produce plays . |
| 54 | The girl in the mack was scrambling again through the puddles in the dirt of the wreckers ' yard ; the invisible and soundless shots from out of frame felled her at a signal from Jean-Claude and the partisans rose from the auto hulks , their own guns blazing . |
| 55 | Inspector did you at the time , know of Lawrence ? |
| 56 | Mrs Bennett waylaid her at the door of the little sitting-room which Celia had designated for her and Brian 's everyday use . |
| 57 | ‘ A man met us at the door and said his wife Sheila Brown was still in the bungalow . |
| 58 | Anne caught her at the door to the bedroom . |
| 59 | Christina approached him at the reception desk where he stood . |
| 60 | ‘ And , lady — ’ His voice stopped her at the door . |