Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] [pron] at the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | When screening began we agreed to discontinue it at the end of the first year if there were a number of traumatised families . |
2 | ‘ I expected to see you at the ball last night , Sharpe ! ’ |
3 | His ex-wife Margaret claims he tried to kill her at the family home in Brockhampton . |
4 | The elder of the two policemen smiled at Sarah but she dropped her eyes and tried to busy herself at the sink . |
5 | ‘ Somebody tried to phone her at the flat . |
6 | But I 've got a lot of time for Tom Clarke , he 's a nice man and it would be absolutely disgusting if anyone tried to dump him at the moment . ’ |
7 | Margaret Jones claims her husband tried to murder her at the family home in Brockhampton , by pumping exhaust fumes from the garage into her bedroom . |
8 | She 'd heard him at the glass door — a double knock , very light . |
9 | They drove to see him at the Chapel of Repose . |
10 | ‘ You 've got chilblains ! ’ their mother said when she came to see them at the beginning of December . |
11 | It was four hours later when they woke to find him at the foot of the bed saying : ‘ I 've got a gun and I 'm going to shoot you . ’ |
12 | 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 . |
13 | He asked the old man if he knew Miss Lavant , if he 'd seen her at the fete , in clothes with buttercups on them . |
14 | 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 . |
15 | 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 |
16 | 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 . |
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 | 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 . |
19 | She got the reel of film through customs without any trouble , and a man came to collect it at the hotel . |
20 | After a few days of this treatment , Moz began to feel less threatened by his owner , and began to greet her at the gate . |
21 | Kate had decided to skip the afternoon 's classes and arranged to meet him at the boatyard near the Tech . |
22 | She 's a friend of Bertice Reading , who is working at the Prince of Wales Theatre , so I arranged to meet her at the stage door at 2 o'clock . |
23 | He went across and began washing himself at the lavarium . |
24 | Tate left a number of finished canvases which had never been shown and Edwin decided to release them at the rate of one a year through Ismay Gorton 's , the London gallery which handles his work . |
25 | But they only started to perfect it at the end of the nineteenth century . |
26 | Early in the morning I went to see him at the Castle . |
27 | On the morning of the day when Therese Aschmann was due to arrive in Hochhauser , Willi spent a long time getting ready before he went to meet her at the station . |
28 | He drew back one of the chairs and proceeded to seat himself at the table opposite her . |
29 | But I really did like it at the end when he got back with his mother and the rest of the family and they had a lovely Christmas with hundreds of presents . |
30 | No industrialist liked to put himself at the mercy of creditors . |