Example sentences of "[vb past] [pers pn] at the [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then he took the stones from their pouch and laid them at the bottom of the Bowl . |
| 2 | He met them at the gates of the airfield ( still a debris of contractors ' equipment surrounded by barbed wire ) and informed them gravely that if they entered — no difficult matter — they would be breaking the law . |
| 3 | ‘ We found them at the home of Nigel , your predecessor . |
| 4 | She thinks the microwave ‘ has changed our perceptions of time , much as telephones changed them at the turn of the century ’ . |
| 5 | Throughout much of 1948 Minton had been working up oils based on his drawings and watercolours of Corsica for an exhibition at the Lefevre , initially promised him at the end of that year but not mounted until February 1949 . |
| 6 | ‘ He found her at the Borrehus at Falster where Søren , her third husband , manned the ale taps and where she ferried peasants and their cattle across the sound . |
| 7 | Anne caught her at the door to the bedroom . |
| 8 | Out in the dark cold hall she stopped him at the foot of the stairs . |
| 9 | She had drawn her fair hair high into an elaborate plait down the back of her head and fastened it at the bottom with a wide tortoiseshell clasp : it looked distinguished and competent , but nowhere near cuddly . |
| 10 | I was still very pleased , however , when the statistician Ian Hodge told me at the end of the year that I had moved from being 156th in the world 100 metres ranking list in 1985 to 4th in 1986 ! |
| 11 | ‘ She was dynamic , had tremendous energy and was thoroughly decisive , ’ Bramall told me at the launch of a book , The Chiefs , which he has written with Gen Sir William Jackson . |
| 12 | He had a two-stroke lead over playing partner Frost with two holes to play before the defending champion pipped him at the post with birdies on 17 and 18 . |
| 13 | John Browne 's neighbours buried him at the gable-end of his humble cottage . |
| 14 | After sorely abusing the corpse , they buried it at the foot of the gallows , intending the burial as a final disgrace . |
| 15 | But that , of course , does not take into account the loan we made you at the start of the year . |
| 16 | I remember when I first met you at the house of terror ; what you gave me , all that you gave me . |
| 17 | Luib took the practice sword from him with a nod , and he joined them at the edge of the field . |
| 18 | At this I quickly joined them at the bottom of a long rickety iron ladder which led into the water ballast tanks and found them hauling out several cases which had been concealed there . |
| 19 | ‘ My father and eldest brother established an estate agency and I joined them at the age of 17 . |
| 20 | The tailor measured me at the height of the deluge . |
| 21 | And he shook her at the end of each question . |
| 22 | The subject is believed to be Gian Giacomo Caprotti , a pupil of da Vinci who joined him at the age of 10 , later becoming one of his lovers . |
| 23 | The boy showed little talent for the business and hardly earned the £2 10s Mr Marshall paid him at the end of the week . |
| 24 | Until Charlie paid her at the end of the week , Lucy would again be in her usual flat-broke condition . |
| 25 | He took the grenade from his pocket , unleased the pin and threw it at the base of the double gates . |
| 26 | Sec secondly we must welcome Paul to the meeting , as you know he joined us at the beginning of January to run the neighbourhood watch schemes and as office manager I thought it appropriate he attend the management meetings . |
| 27 | After the final collection of the night , when all the toads had been recorded and marked , we released them at the margin of the lake near the spawn site . |
| 28 | We went dancing in discos and an Italian boy , Giacomo , kissed me at the end of a dance . |
| 29 | Freya thanked me at the end of her letter for ‘ taking the time to care about a subject so little understood ’ , which was a sentence I heard often from girls in one way or another , in researching this book . |
| 30 | A farmer had a load of unwanted sawdust so piled it at the end of his drive with a notice : ‘ Free sawdust — help yourself ’ . |