Example sentences of "[vb past] [pron] [adv] at the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Saturday , 13th : Arrived at Delhi airport over two hours late , at 06.30. met me personally at the barrier and eased me through the arrival formalities . |
| 2 | The scheme certainly helped me right at the beginning when I was starting up as a criminal lawyer . |
| 3 | This pendulum visualisation helped me considerably at the point where I was just about to master the hovering stage . |
| 4 | It was pink , not red like Hank Marvin 's , which disappointed me rather at the time . |
| 5 | After some time he found himself down at the Green , where Emily had not come with him ; and remembered Emily , and decided that he must ask her to become engaged to him before he went , to wait for him ; would she agree ? |
| 6 | The three words were not a great deal for Carrie to pin her hopes to , but she had a warm and happy glow deep inside her as she let herself in at the door of the cottage . |
| 7 | Afterwards she found herself back at the Collector 's bedside in the same churning confusion of day and night . |
| 8 | ‘ Master Daunbey , ’ Mandeville caught him up at the corner of the gallery . |
| 9 | Six o'clock found her downstairs at the kitchen grate , readying the little house for the day . |
| 10 | He apologized and helped her down at the end of the road . |
| 11 | James was full of praise for the medical teams who helped him both at the scene and at Coleraine hospital . |
| 12 | This did n't matter very much as cylinders soon found themselves right at the bottom of the class structure of recordings , and not many featured artists worth naming . |
| 13 | Asking the way towards Monte Samana , they found themselves back at the hospital . |
| 14 | After a few attempts at checking myself by thinking of Hattie Jacques and Eric Sykes riding a tandem , I found myself back at the doctor . |
| 15 | Kenny Clark flung himself forward at the ball , only to see his efforts strike the foot of the post , but Julio Berazi was on hand to stab home and collect his fourth goal of the season . |
| 16 | Tenerife was basking in afternoon sunshine as a taxi dropped them off at the sea-front . |
| 17 | ‘ We had breakfast and Mummy dropped me off at the playground , ’ Verena told police . |
| 18 | Dropped me off at the cross roads and went straight down there to drop off at Newark Road . |
| 19 | ‘ Thank you for the meal , ’ she said as Fen dropped her off at the end of the towpath . |
| 20 | We happened to pass a woman pushing a pram , who for some reason produced a torch , no doubt in order to locate something , and directed it straight at the baby 's face . |
| 21 | and they fetched me down at the hospital |
| 22 | Having saved the sports car company and turned himself in at the end of series one , Clive Owen led off the second series in 1991 completing the last days of a prison sentence and abandoning the city slicker lifestyle for a battle to save a bankrupt stately home . |
| 23 | As he breasted the deck level Delaney ducked back , threw himself aside at the sight of the figure sprawled on the ground . |
| 24 | But bravely Close hauled himself up at the count of nine and by the end of the round he was back to his old self . |
| 25 | Corbett crumpled the parchment into a ball and threw it angrily at the wall . |
| 26 | He picked up the book he was reading , and threw it violently at the rat . |
| 27 | He threw it hard at the Dodger , but missed and hit Charley Bates , who started to shout with fear . |
| 28 | That 's how it seems in memory ; and we each apprehended it subcutaneously at the time , il me semble . |
| 29 | You know they joined it right at the beginning , they , they 're the ones where the momentum 's come from erm they 're the ones asking the rich peasants to join them , the middle peasants and they 're the ones leading the revolution , th they are the riff-raff if you , you know , want to take one view erm they have n't got anything to lose because of their position er er er er as erm a rich peasant may say , you know , what is there to keep me from joining yo you people have neither tile over your heads nor speck of land under your feet , and it 's true they have got nothing to lose but these are the ones that are pushing the ideas forward and forming the associations . |
| 30 | The Repo Men armed their holy water-pistols and angled them down at the devil-made-flesh . |