Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] [vb pp] [pers pn] at the " in BNC.

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1 I suppose the fact that I 'd made it at the age of 14 was important because it meant I would go a long way in athletics .
2 I 'd met her at the odd party where we 'd chatted and that 's about it . ’
3 I did n't realise that I had lost it at the party . ’
4 In retrospect I can see that this implication can be drawn from the envelope , and I only wish I had realised it at the time .
5 Well I , I had done it at the interval .
6 I had met her at the England-USA match in Birmingham and she had offered to help me with my career .
7 She 'd heard him at the glass door — a double knock , very light .
8 Well Laura and Gemma wanted to make these pasties and she 'd asked me at the weekend and I did n't have the time because I think Irene came down cos I asked Irene whether she 'd looked after , you know I 'm at college until three , and she said yeah I 'll pick them up and er I could n't get her out at then so I promised she could make them so , I said alright you and Gemma make them , anyway they did very well they made them in about fifteen minutes because we had to go and get Emily at four from school , I said hurry up , hurry up put the water in Emily quick stick them together shove them now and put them in the oven
9 Miranda thought of M. Apéritif last night , and decided she would let him go further when she next saw him , in spite of the lizard darting of his small and oddly hard tongue in the kiss she 'd allowed him at the door of the hotel .
10 She knew Gwen Evans only slightly ; she had seen her at the funeral , and previous to that a couple of times , but the memory stuck .
11 To lose her now was going to be ten times worse than when she had left her at the Foundling Hospital , and she was making herself ill with worry .
12 They had warned her at the start there would be complicated things going on , and not to try to understand them , that her job was looking after the baby .
13 She would find one , they had told her at the training depot , at most main-line stations .
14 He asked the old man if he knew Miss Lavant , if he 'd seen her at the fete , in clothes with buttercups on them .
15 He recognised Kurz and Hinterstoisser , he 'd seen them at the hotel ; strikingly handsome fellows , especially Kurz , an officer of the Wehrmacht , blue-eyed , blond-haired .
16 When he 'd left her at the entrance to Newcastle Place the day Pa died she 'd ached with disappointment that she might never see him again .
17 He 'd left her at the inn without so much as a word , and here he was , calmly indulging his hobby while she 'd had to trek after him .
18 So somebody had to tell him he 'd left them at the
19 It had soon passed , but it had alarmed her at the time .
20 It had upset him at the time , but you had to get over stuff like that or you 'd go to the wall .
21 He had met them at the Piazza Venezia two hours before .
22 He had recognised her at once when he had seen her at the funeral , and even then her looks , though pale and wan , had surprised him with their purity .
23 He had seen them at the County Show , where he had gone for the rabbits , all those girls with plaits and scrubbed faces and clean gloves , doing an exhibition ride .
24 If he had played me at the same age he 'd have given me three blacks start and a beating .
25 Somehow — it did not seem diplomatic to enquire too deeply just how — he had missed her at the arranged spot .
26 All the way up on the ferry from Vienna , Earth , Jezrael kept remembering how he had treated her at the briefing .
27 It was as though he had joined them at the table , and it was n't doing D'Arcy 's appetite any good at all .
28 The Warden ( Vice-Chancellor ) Duff assured them that he was now not nearly so odd as he was when he had known him at the choir school of King 's College .
29 When one of the witnesses pointed out that the testator had not signed the will the testator replied that he had signed it at the top and that it could be signed anywhere .
30 Often , after he had left her at the door of her apartment , he would ridicule himself An old man with a Pygmalion fantasy .
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