Example sentences of "[vb past] [pers pn] [adv prt] at the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One was the passage from the fifteenth chapter of Genesis in which Abraham cut up a heifer , a goat and a ram and laid them out at the Lord 's command , driving the vultures away , falling at last into a deep sleep with ‘ a horror of great darkness ’ . |
| 2 | ‘ Master Daunbey , ’ Mandeville caught him up at the corner of the gallery . |
| 3 | He apologized and helped her down at the end of the road . |
| 4 | Tenerife was basking in afternoon sunshine as a taxi dropped them off at the sea-front . |
| 5 | ‘ We had breakfast and Mummy dropped me off at the playground , ’ Verena told police . |
| 6 | Dropped me off at the cross roads and went straight down there to drop off at Newark Road . |
| 7 | ‘ Thank you for the meal , ’ she said as Fen dropped her off at the end of the towpath . |
| 8 | Handed them out at the Police Station ! |
| 9 | and they fetched me down at the hospital |
| 10 | The Repo Men armed their holy water-pistols and angled them down at the devil-made-flesh . |
| 11 | He had written something on a scrap of paper and folded it over at the bottom . |
| 12 | ‘ He kissed me on the cheek and I waved him off at the door and watched TV before going to bed . |
| 13 | When I did that one for Ian , we just tied it in at the back did n't we ? |
| 14 | Léonie smiled at Thérèse in the mirror and zipped her up at the back . |
| 15 | We saw them off at the airfield , we being Sogono and myself . |
| 16 | Dana saw me off at the station . |
| 17 | The following morning saw me back at the surgery in order to collect not only my screwdriver but also the death certificate , duly signed by two doctors ( yes , they had managed to find the mortuary ) , without which I could not obtain a Registration of Death certificate , without which Nigel could not be cremated . |
| 18 | LEEDS manager Howard Wilkinson has renewed his optimism about winning the championship following his team 's 3–0 win over Chelsea , which planted them back at the top , a point ahead of Manchester United who have two games in hand . |
| 19 | In 1912 Walter Long accepted the phrase " the new style " and flung it back at the government : " The New Style consists in the cynical violation of the honourable traditions of public life . |
| 20 | Shelley put ten long fingers to his chest and then flipped them up at the ceiling . |
| 21 | No you just marked it down and cleared it up at the end of the year . |
| 22 | Or else you sort of jotted them down at the back of your mind , you know , to think about them later , but you never remembered , or you did but it was too late , they 'd gone , your head was full of other things . ’ |
| 23 | ‘ They kicked me out at the end . |
| 24 | An armed soldier , a member of the Taman guard , flagged them down at the barrier . |
| 25 | Hilary was eighteen when Meredith picked him up at the BBC Club . ’ |
| 26 | That Friday night he picked her up at the airport and brought her home , but fifteen minutes after they got there , ‘ some guys showed up to sell Seth cocaine . |
| 27 | Peter took her there and picked her up at the end of the day . |
| 28 | She helped him to the kitchen , as that seemed to be the best place for him for the moment , and sat him down at the kitchen table while she went and got a towel . |
| 29 | He sat her down at the table , where she could feel the warmth of the fire after her bath . |
| 30 | ‘ So it will confuse the trackers mightily — especially since I think they picked us up at the Luxembourg border crossing , then followed us in our Mercedes down the autobahn . ’ |