Example sentences of "[vb past] [pers pn] at [pos pn] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ben and his young friends had been told at the start of the meeting to behave themselves and not get in the way of the other archers , so they were not too pleased when he beat them at their own game . |
| 2 | His estranged wife Danielle and their three children spurned him at his sick bed when he announced plans to wed the former Bond girl . |
| 3 | Style director Hamish Bowles , a lifelong fan , visited her at her magnificent home , Templeton , on Long Island and spent a day talking to and photographing her in some her favourite clothes ( see page 220 ) : ‘ It 's a ravishing and evocative home , C.Z. is a scintillating hostess and brings a contemporary touch to a house that is almost Edwardian in its management and battalions of staff . ’ |
| 4 | When Callahan and I visited him at his large house on Sunset Beach , it was like walking around a graveyard : every board was a headstone with memories buried beneath it . |
| 5 | On a Jamaican cattle ranch acquired in settlement of some debts , he freed the slaves and transported them at his own expense to Philadelphia for resettlement . |
| 6 | Nobody recognised him at his true value . |
| 7 | In the ceremony I smeared the metal , rubber and plastic of the new device with earwax , snot , blood , urine , belly-button fluff and toenail cheese , christened it by firing the empty sling at a wingless wasp crawling on the face of the Factory , and also fired it at my bared foot , raising a bruise . |
| 8 | I met him at my wee cousin 's wedding — he was the Best Man — he says to me would you like to go out for a bite to eat ? |
| 9 | I recently saw them at my local garden centre . |
| 10 | He 'd survived where they had eliminated some of his followers because they took him at his own estimation , a man of the cloth . |
| 11 | ‘ He was the original tall , dark , handsome boy at school , ’ said a woman who knew him at his senior school . |
| 12 | When faced with that choice this summer , I chose to encourage people to continue to develop computerisation in primary health care rather than simply to reward directly those who did something very valuable — there is no doubt about that , or about the fact that they did it at their own risk — some years ago . |
| 13 | Strangely , it was a job that satisfied him , for he did it at his own pace and in his own way , and provided he did it well , which he did , then there was nobody to disturb him . |
| 14 | They stood her in good stead when her father enrolled her at her next school , Riddlesworth Hall , two hours ' drive from Park House . |