Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] [pers pn] at [pron] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I met him at my wee cousin 's wedding — he was the Best Man — he says to me would you like to go out for a bite to eat ? |
| 2 | When Callahan and I visited him at his large house on Sunset Beach , it was like walking around a graveyard : every board was a headstone with memories buried beneath it . |
| 3 | I heard him at it several times , pretending to joke his daughter , but in fact making her the butt of his mockery . |
| 4 | I saw it at its best , in April , when it was well above the third magnitude , and dominated the whole area ; at that stage it was strongly orange-red . |
| 5 | The road , such as it was , had come to an end and the last twelve miles to our destination were strictly four-wheel drive through yard-deep mud , and over streams alarmingly bridged with thick bamboo trunks simply laid next to each other , so that they separated between our wheels if we took them at anything less than a rush . |
| 6 | He 'd survived where they had eliminated some of his followers because they took him at his own estimation , a man of the cloth . |
| 7 | When faced with that choice this summer , I chose to encourage people to continue to develop computerisation in primary health care rather than simply to reward directly those who did something very valuable — there is no doubt about that , or about the fact that they did it at their own risk — some years ago . |
| 8 | Ben and his young friends had been told at the start of the meeting to behave themselves and not get in the way of the other archers , so they were not too pleased when he beat them at their own game . |
| 9 | Strangely , it was a job that satisfied him , for he did it at his own pace and in his own way , and provided he did it well , which he did , then there was nobody to disturb him . |