Example sentences of "[noun] [vb past] i at [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 Ken met me at the entrance and guided me into a side room .
2 One of the lads asked me at a dance how I had earned my living before I had got married .
3 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 .
4 Rich and Syb met me at the station .
5 The tailor measured me at the height of the deluge .
6 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 .
7 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 .
8 ‘ Easy — a stroke of genius hit me at the height of the bombing , General .
9 ‘ No , his analyst told me at a party in New York . ’
10 The auberge owner joined me at the door and stared with contempt at the sky .
11 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 .
12 ‘ She was dynamic , had tremendous energy and was thoroughly decisive , ’ Bramall told me at the launch of a book , The Chiefs , which he has written with Gen Sir William Jackson .
13 Freya thanked me at the end of her letter for ‘ taking the time to care about a subject so little understood ’ , which was a sentence I heard often from girls in one way or another , in researching this book .
14 I was still very pleased , however , when the statistician Ian Hodge told me at the end of the year that I had moved from being 156th in the world 100 metres ranking list in 1985 to 4th in 1986 !
15 Taff joined me at the gun .
16 My first school expelled me at the end of second year .
17 Although these omissions suited me at the time , I have since found them incredible to the point of doubting my own powers of recollection , but when I checked recently with my sister , she confirmed their accuracy .
18 On the appointed Saturday in October , Micky met me at the railway station and drove me ( in a fairly elderly Morris Oxford with a canvas hood ) right down the High as far as the University Church , and there he parked ( no problem then ) .
19 Sundowner time found me at the Clachaig Inn ( JTR either went there or to the Temperance Hotel in Glencoe Village on the edge of Loch Leven ) after twenty-odd miles wandering and walking .
20 Bunny joined me at the bar and bought us both another drink .
21 After one interview in the relatively early days , my mentor , Ron Evans buttonholed me at the end of the programme .
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