Example sentences of "[vb past] to visit [pers pn] at " in BNC.
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| 1 | He sent her a copy of Madame Bovary ( she thanked him , pronounced the novel ‘ hideous ’ , and quoted at him Philip James Bailey , author of Festus , on the writer 's duty to give moral instruction to the reader ) ; and forty years after that first meeting in Trouville she came to visit him at Croisset . |
| 2 | When my mother and a friend came to visit me at Wolverton I brought them to Cambridge and , with the confidence of inexperience , I took them punting on the river . |
| 3 | She was Smallfry 's mam , but she never , ever came to visit them at Old Ashfield . |
| 4 | At first I had thought she would recover , but when I learned her illness was serious , I decided to visit her at night , for what might be the last time . |
| 5 | A house in France was a luxury she could n't afford , but she needed to visit it at least once — to make a reasoned decision about the future of her unexpected inheritance . |
| 6 | I went to visit him at the Benedictine monastery at Nashdom and asked him for any insights which he could give me from his experience in Accra . |