Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] [pers pn] at [art] [noun] " 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 ‘ Somebody tried to phone her at the flat .
5 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 . ’
6 Three-year-old Daniel Hampton was crushed when the 9ft-high and 8ft-wide panel toppled on to him as he tried to climb it at a recreation ground .
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 Jimmy Richards , 31 , suffocated after the weights landed on his face and neck when he tried to lift them at a Bradford health club .
9 McFarlane , who in his more sober Methodist way felt much the same , tried to explain it at the hearings .
10 She 'd heard him at the glass door — a double knock , very light .
11 They drove to see him at the Chapel of Repose .
12 ‘ You 've got chilblains ! ’ their mother said when she came to see them at the beginning of December .
13 ‘ His agent came to see us at the St Louis Lollapalooza show , and we talked about the possibility of doing something together .
14 Katherine 's very presence seemed to provoke her at every turn .
15 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 . ’
16 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 .
17 He asked the old man if he knew Miss Lavant , if he 'd seen her at the fete , in clothes with buttercups on them .
18 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 .
19 You know , cos I 'd got it at a P P C as well , for national conference .
20 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
21 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 .
22 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 .
23 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 .
24 She got the reel of film through customs without any trouble , and a man came to collect it at the hotel .
25 After a few days of this treatment , Moz began to feel less threatened by his owner , and began to greet her at the gate .
26 Kate had decided to skip the afternoon 's classes and arranged to meet him at the boatyard near the Tech .
27 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 .
28 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 .
29 But they only started to perfect it at the end of the nineteenth century .
30 Early in the morning I went to see him at the Castle .
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