Example sentences of "[noun prp] [verb] [pron] at the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr Trelawney met us at the cave . |
| 2 | Ken met me at the entrance and guided me into a side room . |
| 3 | The civil rights marches created an opportunity for Ian Paisley to put himself at the head of plebeian Protestant resistance to the civil rights movement . |
| 4 | He was awakened just before noon by the Master of Novices who announced that a message had come from John Benstede asking for Corbett to present himself at the castle immediately . |
| 5 | Headmistress Shirley Cunningham greeted us at the school gates with her own highly appropriate joke . |
| 6 | Headmistress Shirley Cunningham greeted us at the school gates with her own highly appropriate joke . |
| 7 | But dear oh dear , headmistress Shirley Cunningham greeted us at the school gates with the world 's oldest joke . |
| 8 | Theories of personal development , or of the historical and sociological development of humanity , which ignore it or dispense with it , make psychoanalytic theory less advanced than it was when Freud left it at the end of his life . |
| 9 | Corbett left them at The Bull , its narrow windows draped with black crepe in mourning for the landlord whose coffin now stood outside the main door , perched rather crazily on its wooden trestles . |
| 10 | Lillee met him at the gate and escorted him to the middle . |
| 11 | McCoist flung himself at the ball and beat Lukic with a wonderful diving header . |
| 12 | For a further four years , Sukarno found himself at the centre of a political maelstrom of which the outcome seemed obscure . |
| 13 | Kim meets us at the door wearing a shimmering dress . |
| 14 | Cambridge also contained a strong ‘ republican ’ group at this time , and while there is no proof that Wordsworth joined them at the University we find that he freely associated with ex-Cambridge liberals after his return from France in 1793 . |
| 15 | For a while Flavia Sherman joined them at the rail and stood with her hand resting on Joseph 's shoulder ; but she seemed restless and soon tired of watching the peasants at work in the fields . |
| 16 | It was 3-0 just before half-time as Shearer threw himself at the ball . |
| 17 | Each year groups from mainland Spain find themselves at the house of the White Dove , a name symbolic of the peace and comfort which they experience through his caring approach . |
| 18 | They were part of Japan until Russia occupied them at the end of the second world war , and the Japanese feel they are justified in wanting them back . |
| 19 | 97 Squadron of Lancasters left us at the end of April to return to Coningsby in Lincolnshire , from whence they had come , and with the loss of life drastically cut down , some of the pressure and sadness lifted , to be replaced by pressure of a different kind . |
| 20 | Gray said everyone at the club is deeply disappointed over the current situation but they all trying to put it right . |
| 21 | Dorje greeted me at the bottom and pulled me by the hand across the slabs of ice which had cracked into pontoons , barely locked together . |
| 22 | In Cairo , Stirling based himself at the flat of his brother , Peter , who was an official at the British Embassy . |
| 23 | It was planned in 1725 and an engraving by Sutton Nicholls shows it at the north side of the garden , 300 feet long with forty-one windows on the ground floor . |
| 24 | Rich and Syb met me at the station . |
| 25 | Inside the kitchen , while Carrie busied herself at the range , Seb hovered behind her , wanting to touch her , but not daring to , in case she objected . |
| 26 | The boy showed little talent for the business and hardly earned the £2 10s Mr Marshall paid him at the end of the week . |
| 27 | In June 1263 , however , when Simon of Montfort [ q.v. ] resurrected the cause of the Provisions and advanced on the capital , Fitzthomas placed himself at the head of ‘ the people ’ who had taken to the streets in Montfort 's support . |
| 28 | Newley bought it at the Warton sale . |
| 29 | Er Webb , Webb missed the first one blasted it over the top and Giggs missed one at the end . |
| 30 | Martin held him at the knees always pushing inside him like warm water pouring in . |