Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] [to-vb] [pers pn] at [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I learned of his death when I tried to telephone him at Ladram Avionics . |
| 2 | ‘ I tried to sign him at QPR three years ago , then again during the summer , ’ said Wednesday 's player-boss . |
| 3 | I have n't spoken to Mr Boldwood since the autumn , when I promised to see him at Christmas , so I 'll have to go . |
| 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 | I had witnessed Sister Kenny 's unusual treatment when I went to see her at work at Queen Mary 's Hospital for Children in Carshalton , one of several hospitals we had visited during our advanced student days . |
| 6 | ] ‘ I went to see her at Claridge 's … they are always so obsequious when one asks for her … . |
| 7 | I went to see him at Covent Garden and came away thinking ‘ What am I doing with this miserable life ? ’ |
| 8 | And then it was further endorsed because I went to hear him at Johnstown and I thought to myself well I felt sorry that he was erm what 's the word I want ? |
| 9 | Eric and I had to restrain him at times when he wanted to do something like throw little Paul into the water to see if he 'd float , or like when he wanted to fell a tree over the railway line that goes through Porteneil , but as a rule we got on surprisingly well , even though it rankled to see Eric , who was the same age as Blyth , obviously in fear of him . |
| 10 | ‘ He 's not suffered any leg problems since then and I wanted to run him at Newcastle but he was a little flat in November . |
| 11 | She tried to put him at ease : " Why do n't you take your coat off ? " she said . |
| 12 | I thought you said she 'd to cash it at Barclay . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | It was our local radio station , it said you had to represent them at functions and charity events , it sounded dead good . |
| 15 | When your family members went mad these days you had to keep them at home , and whatever the sound policies , on the part of the government , which lay behind this decision , it was undoubtedly inconvenient for those upon whom would fall the burden of caring for the deranged . |
| 16 | She travelled to hear him at Kirkcudbright next evening , and to other meetings after that . |
| 17 | I can never be grateful enough to them for the sacrifice they made to keep me at school , when even ten shillings a week would have relieved the pressure on the food bill . |
| 18 | ‘ Most of them preferred to see it at home . |
| 19 | He tried to do it at home and that was |
| 20 | She felt the lie was unconvincing , but he seemed to take it at face value . |