Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] [prep] [pers pn] at [noun] " in BNC.

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1 After the winner I rode for him at York . ’
2 I heard about it at school . ’
3 I called for him at Faber 's — ; which meant waiting downstairs either du côté de chez Swan or in the small waiting-room crowded with Faber books ready for dispatch — ; and we caught a train to Merstham from Victoria .
4 Lucy of course was always fun , and I talked to her at Paula 's villa whenever I went there .
5 I went to it at Christmas
6 I went in it at Hinton-in-the-Hedges , on the edge of the Cotswolds .
7 That confidence was echoed by Peter Scudamore when I spoke to him at Towcester yesterday .
8 Oh yeah I mean they were good company to go out with and I said to you at dinner time and then since they 've joined us , so we was all the same
9 I sat for it at Sutton Place — he did n't clown around when he was painting me , but talked of David , Ingres , Velázquez . ’
10 At the Forest Eyre which opened before him at Windsor in September 1632 , counsel for the Crown was Sir William Noy , the Attorney-General , a learned lawyer determined to re-establish Forest rights which had long been forgotten .
11 The one major event which happened to me at Binbrook , and which was going to change my life , was that I met the man I was eventually to marry , although a lot of water would flow under the bridge before the wedding took place .
12 Repetitive enough to appeal to Matthew , 4 , who asked for it at bedtime four nights running , and with sophisticated touches appreciated by William , 6 , normally a boy of the He Man persuasion .
13 Then she gazed past him at Alexei .
14 ‘ I had a great uncle who fought under him at Ladysmith . ’
15 But none of the boys who played with him at St Mark 's Roman Catholic Primary School in Shettleston could ever have guessed they were in the company of a very special talent .
16 ‘ The guy who scored for us at Wembley , Kjetil Rekdal , is mad about English football .
17 Many expressed a desire to be able to get in touch , particularly with others who studied with them at Stirling .
18 She came between them at speed , the air thunderous in her wings , which were more massive than any golden eagle 's he had yet seen or imagined .
19 She came to us at St Sylvester 's , ’ Theodora amplified .
20 She spoke about it at length and Richard asked intelligent questions .
21 Check for any areas of hazard such as pillars , radiators , chairs or competitors ' bags near the area — anything , in fact , that might cause you injury if you ploughed into it at speed .
22 She stood behind me at Vicky 's bedside .
23 According to Sark law , by her marriage her estate , including the seigniory , passed to her husband , but she had no intention of relinquishing her hold on island affairs and , although he then became the official seigneur , she sat beside him at meetings of the chief pleas ( Sark 's governing body ) , prompting his actions and continuing , albeit illegally , to give voice to her own opinions .
24 When we talked about it at length , I realised that I 'd been using clothes to buoy myself up emotionally , ever since my father left when I was 10 .
25 He got into it at school , but his friends moved on .
26 Although on occasion he functioned as leader of the Congress movement , the ascendancy he achieved over it was purely personal , and he could make it seem as though he played with it at will .
27 Thus death has been ever close to me — so close that it seemed to me at times that I could reach out and touch it .
28 When he turned towards me at Dun Laoghaire , he looked the complete tearaway .
29 It rained upon them at Elgin and Johnson again ran into culinary difficulty with a lunch he could not eat at the Red Lion inn .
30 So I felt inexpressible gratitude to you for giving me the support and care of that relationship , however attenuated it appeared to me at times :
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