Example sentences of "[noun] [vb past] [pers pn] at [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr Trelawney met us at the cave . |
| 2 | Ken met me at the entrance and guided me into a side room . |
| 3 | One of the lads asked me at a dance how I had earned my living before I had got married . |
| 4 | ‘ David played it at a soundcheck and when I asked him if it was about Shaun he just smiled and then denied it . |
| 5 | Not that the organs of perception apprehended it at the time . |
| 6 | When we moved from Freiberg , Rebecca followed us at a distance . |
| 7 | ‘ HA HA HA HA HA HA , ’ the little girl went in the next picture-square , and ‘ BONK read the bubble as the typewriter hit her at the end of the joke . |
| 8 | Branson bought them at an auction which inflated the group 's price far beyond its true value . |
| 9 | In the 1470s the closest parallel is to be found in the north midlands , where Hastings ' possession of the key duchy of Lancaster offices put him at the head of the royal connection in the region . |
| 10 | In the 1470s the closest parallel is to be found in the north midlands , where Hastings ' possession of the key duchy of Lancaster offices put him at the head of the royal connection in the region . |
| 11 | Headmistress Shirley Cunningham greeted us at the school gates with her own highly appropriate joke . |
| 12 | Headmistress Shirley Cunningham greeted us at the school gates with her own highly appropriate joke . |
| 13 | But dear oh dear , headmistress Shirley Cunningham greeted us at the school gates with the world 's oldest joke . |
| 14 | Theories of personal development , or of the historical and sociological development of humanity , which ignore it or dispense with it , make psychoanalytic theory less advanced than it was when Freud left it at the end of his life . |
| 15 | Lillee met him at the gate and escorted him to the middle . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Cambridge also contained a strong ‘ republican ’ group at this time , and while there is no proof that Wordsworth joined them at the University we find that he freely associated with ex-Cambridge liberals after his return from France in 1793 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | ‘ It was a brutal and cowardly attack on wretched creatures whose offences placed them at the bottom of the prison heap , ’ he said . |
| 20 | They were part of Japan until Russia occupied them at the end of the second world war , and the Japanese feel they are justified in wanting them back . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | Dorje greeted me at the bottom and pulled me by the hand across the slabs of ice which had cracked into pontoons , barely locked together . |
| 23 | So if the council refused it at the meeting it 's their people that 's refused it ! |
| 24 | It was cooler and grey , and a brisk sou'wester spiked with a salty drizzle met us at the crag . |
| 25 | Rich and Syb met me at the station . |
| 26 | Rebels stopped him at the airport but his whereabouts were not known last night . |
| 27 | The boy showed little talent for the business and hardly earned the £2 10s Mr Marshall paid him at the end of the week . |
| 28 | Tero followed them at a distance , watching her new friend with sorrowful anxious eyes . |
| 29 | As one director put it at the time : ‘ I will not allow my social workers , one of whose core values is honesty , to go into people 's houses and behave in a fundamentally deceitful way ’ . |
| 30 | The Khan got her at the sack of T'sosei , and when the Kha-Khan — the present one 's father — wanted her for himself , the Khan married her . |