Example sentences of "[vb past] [pers pn] at the [noun] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ken met me at the entrance and guided me into a side room . |
| 2 | He met them at the gate and was smiling . |
| 3 | And er also many engineers when they were out their time , they went to Glasgow and for a few years , he , everybody who went from Galashiels , word got through to him and he met them at the station and got them settled in their digs in Glasgow . |
| 4 | Although the other judges would not look at the assessors ' lists , Burn met them at the hall and compared his list of preferences to theirs . |
| 5 | ‘ They stopped me at the border and arrested me . ’ |
| 6 | Rebels stopped him at the airport but his whereabouts were not known last night . |
| 7 | The man came back from the bank in a van and the other men stopped it at the gate and grabbed the money . ’ |
| 8 | They told me at the hospital that you 've worked with him in the past , so I thought you might be able to help me with my general enquiries . ’ |
| 9 | You were told at the time you did , and Councillor told you at the time that th it was totally inadequate was the children 's budget , so how can you expect more money from the Government when your sense of priorities is so blatantly wrong on the money that you 're already handling . |
| 10 | I actually advised him at the meeting that he should not and could n't take that motion , and I was by Alderman in that situation , but he still deemed to go ahead and that 's p his prerogative . |
| 11 | Told 'em at the Frolic that scurvy Captain 's rooking us … and what 's the answer ? |
| 12 | With Matthew able to drive , he dropped us at the start and picked us up at the other end , and we arrived within 2 minutes of each other , which was remarkable because we were all 3/4 hour late ! |
| 13 | Bunny joined me at the bar and bought us both another drink . |
| 14 | The auberge owner joined me at the door and stared with contempt at the sky . |
| 15 | He joined me at the table and poured out two generous measures of the clear liquid from the bottle . |
| 16 | You telephoned me at the hotel and had that long conversation with me . ’ |
| 17 | For a while Flavia Sherman joined them at the rail and stood with her hand resting on Joseph 's shoulder ; but she seemed restless and soon tired of watching the peasants at work in the fields . |
| 18 | Stein came along , smelt the drink , refused to listen to Rough 's explanation , picked up the glass and threw it at the keeper and marched off . |
| 19 | He picked up his book again , opened it at the marker and settled himself in his seat . |
| 20 | But another sister followed me at the Dowsons when I left to get married . |
| 21 | She sort of collapsed me at the knees and I was down there . |
| 22 | ‘ Well , I warned you at the interview that I was no easy option , did n't I ? ’ he barked . |
| 23 | I loved him at the beginning and could not hate him later — even when he was agonizing everyone . |
| 24 | When I met her at the airport after she flew in to London from Los Angeles recently , I caught my breath when I saw her because she just looked so lovely . |
| 25 | Lillee met him at the gate and escorted him to the middle . |
| 26 | But people reached her at the office and the office had a rule banning employees ' home addresses being revealed . |
| 27 | I saw her at the window when we arrived . |
| 28 | I then did a series of films with Robert de Vicenzo , big money in those days , which convinced me at the time that Roberto would win the 1967 Open . |
| 29 | Did , did you at the time or in the thirties did you have any involvement with the Unemployment Claims Union or anything like that ? |
| 30 | I hardly know what I meant to do — confront him , accuse him , bring it home to him that hellfire awaited him at the reckoning if he did not confess his sin and pay the price of it now . ’ |