Example sentences of "[vb past] [pers pn] at [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 31 | He considered him as he caused coffee to be produced and established them at the big table at the other end of his room . |
| 32 | In fact , we did go down there for a week to explore the possibilities , and I admitted that it was n't what it was and that the rosy glow that still suffused me at the very name was probably nostalgia for my touring days , when it was the most prestigious of all the dates . |
| 33 | My mother grabbed me at the very edge of the roof , just before I toppled the two storeys to the street . |
| 34 | Say , ‘ You lost him at an early age , did n't you ? ’ and I 'll say , ‘ Lost him ? |
| 35 | He shoved it at the uniformed man 's face , watching with pleasure as he recoiled from the stench . |
| 36 | He knew that after shooting the second eight foot fall we would be free-falling thirty-feet onto a sloping rock shelf covered with a six inch sheet of tonnes and tonnes of the River Tees rushing over it every second ; hopefully ( if we hit it at the correct angle ) we would follow this shoot a further twenty five feet into the plunge pool at the bottom of the fall . |
| 37 | He pointed up the fairway and said : ‘ Just hit it at the wee stone marker . ’ |
| 38 | Just beyond Fort Augustus a trace of their road may still be found ; now impassable , it must have been a fearful route : the climb up to any height of it is ferociously demanding — or else I hit it at the wrong spot . |
| 39 | He met her at a literary dinner a couple of weeks later . |
| 40 | When she came back , Phyllis and Peter met her at the back door . |
| 41 | He led her at a good trot through the country lanes , by Bramfield and Tattle Hill , through Thieves Lane to Hertingfordbury . |
| 42 | I met him at the Labour Club . |
| 43 | Phyl would have stayed in show business without the help of Littler but she was fortunate in that she met him at the right time , when he was building up his pantomime empire . |
| 44 | Jane met him at the front door . |
| 45 | Moran who had been watching as anxiously as the two girls met him at the wooden gate . |
| 46 | His mother met him at the back door . |
| 47 | We first met him at an elegant hotel in the ‘ uptown ’ district of Manhattan , New York , overlooking Central park , a watering place well known to artists ( Joe Cocker also happened to be in residence at the time ) . |
| 48 | Where a member of a board is not re-elected to the authority which appointed him at an ordinary election , he remains a board member until the first meeting of the authority after the election . |
| 49 | Friday evening saw me at the National Gallery with her boyfriend and , quite literally , hundreds of other people , to the opening of the annual exhibition , sponsored this year by BP , of the Scottish Artists and Craftsmen . |
| 50 | ’ Actually I saw you at the Central Conference last month . ’ |
| 51 | The tired horse faced a journey of at least twenty miles across heavy country so he kept her at a sedate trot . |
| 52 | Lamb 's solicitor Alan Herd , who represented him at the 50-minute hearing , said : ‘ Allan is very unhappy with the decision and is urgently considering an appeal to the Cricket Council . |
| 53 | I saw him at the odd university reunion . |
| 54 | I saw him at the very moment in his life when he earned the name Elethandian gave him : the boy who listens to the voice of the oak . |
| 55 | So she advertised it at a knock-down price , and then invented a competitive bid to hurry you into signing on the dotted line . |
| 56 | Pitching the F1 as a ‘ super-bike ’ , he sold it at a retail price of £13,000 . |
| 57 | They bought them at a substantial discount . |
| 58 | If his remarkable strategic instinct convinced him at an early stage that it would be necessary to negotiate with the FLN , his obvious repugnance at the process caused major problems . |
| 59 | The question was asked : we know that he is a sound and effective Prime Minister ; but is he also a leader who can save the Conservative Party from the fate that undoubtedly awaited it at a general election had Mrs Thatcher remained in office ? |
| 60 | Quickly loading the Very pistol with the red cartridge , Larsen aimed it at the open skylight and pulled the trigger . |