Example sentences of "[vb past] [to-vb] [pron] at the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When screening began we agreed to discontinue it at the end of the first year if there were a number of traumatised families . |
| 2 | ‘ I expected to see you at the ball last night , Sharpe ! ’ |
| 3 | His ex-wife Margaret claims he tried to kill her at the family home in Brockhampton . |
| 4 | The elder of the two policemen smiled at Sarah but she dropped her eyes and tried to busy herself at the sink . |
| 5 | ‘ Somebody tried to phone her at the flat . |
| 6 | But I 've got a lot of time for Tom Clarke , he 's a nice man and it would be absolutely disgusting if anyone tried to dump him at the moment . ’ |
| 7 | Margaret Jones claims her husband tried to murder her at the family home in Brockhampton , by pumping exhaust fumes from the garage into her bedroom . |
| 8 | McFarlane , who in his more sober Methodist way felt much the same , tried to explain it at the hearings . |
| 9 | They drove to see him at the Chapel of Repose . |
| 10 | ‘ You 've got chilblains ! ’ their mother said when she came to see them at the beginning of December . |
| 11 | ‘ His agent came to see us at the St Louis Lollapalooza show , and we talked about the possibility of doing something together . |
| 12 | It was four hours later when they woke to find him at the foot of the bed saying : ‘ I 've got a gun and I 'm going to shoot you . ’ |
| 13 | She got the reel of film through customs without any trouble , and a man came to collect it at the hotel . |
| 14 | After a few days of this treatment , Moz began to feel less threatened by his owner , and began to greet her at the gate . |
| 15 | Kate had decided to skip the afternoon 's classes and arranged to meet him at the boatyard near the Tech . |
| 16 | She 's a friend of Bertice Reading , who is working at the Prince of Wales Theatre , so I arranged to meet her at the stage door at 2 o'clock . |
| 17 | Tate left a number of finished canvases which had never been shown and Edwin decided to release them at the rate of one a year through Ismay Gorton 's , the London gallery which handles his work . |
| 18 | But they only started to perfect it at the end of the nineteenth century . |
| 19 | Early in the morning I went to see him at the Castle . |
| 20 | I went to see it at the Barbican , it 's very good . |
| 21 | On the morning of the day when Therese Aschmann was due to arrive in Hochhauser , Willi spent a long time getting ready before he went to meet her at the station . |
| 22 | He drew back one of the chairs and proceeded to seat himself at the table opposite her . |
| 23 | No industrialist liked to put himself at the mercy of creditors . |
| 24 | That was when Sharpe bothered to show himself at the Prince 's headquarters at all ; he evidently preferred to spend his days riding the French frontier which was a job that properly belonged to the pompous General Dornberg , which thought reminded the Prince that Dornberg 's noon report should have arrived . |
| 25 | The strap is a strong rubber one but I found I had to overtighten it at the surface , otherwise it became loose when my drysuit seal compressed at depth . |
| 26 | As he pressed eagerly forward , his long beard streaming In the wind and rain , two Spanish friars snapped at his heels , still desperately trying to persuade him in Latin to die in the faith ; they continued to exhort him at the stake , where , according to Foxe , he lifted up his eyes to heaven , as he held his offending hand in the fire , and died using the words of Stephen : ‘ Lord Jesus receive my spirit . ’ |
| 27 | He came back from London and someone had to tell him at the station . |
| 28 | Three old cruisers , Thetis , Intrepid and Iphigenia largely stripped and filled with concrete , attempted to sink themselves at the mouth of the canal . |
| 29 | He told Maurin he 'd pretended she wanted to meet you at the museum . |