Example sentences of "had [adv] [verb] [pers pn] at [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | My cousins , & his wife , , sailed from Victoria , via Vancouver to spend a day with us in Seattle ( we had already met them at an all-family-reunion wedding in Cheltenham in August . ) . |
| 2 | Although she had not realised it at the time , looking back she could see that her life at Mrs White 's had been quite lonely . |
| 3 | Zen had hardly heard him at the time , shocked by the sight of the man he had been summoned to Perugia to save Iying naked on a plastic sheet with a thermometer sticking out of his anus . |
| 4 | But even before the farmers had come up to the market someone had probably met them at the station , because each dealer had a tout — a local man . |
| 5 | It was a thoroughly tested number as Tiller had not only shown it at the Palace but his La Scala Girls had also performed it at the Winter Gardens Pavilion , Blackpool , the previous year . |
| 6 | Luke had n't visited her at the flat again , nor invited her back to his house . |
| 7 | ‘ When we had n't seen her at the grave for a while we thought she must have gone away and so when we had any flowers left over we put them on Brian 's grave , ’ said Mary . |
| 8 | The father went on : ‘ I believe she said he had stopped breathing for a couple of seconds , and if we had n't had him at the hospital when it happened we would have more than likely lost him . ’ |
| 9 | The lady had cordially assured me at the outset that I was free " to party with anybody I liked the look of " ( this , except for the half-ounce bikini she wore , being her only hint that what we were sitting in was n't a beauty parlour or seminar room but actually a brothel . |
| 10 | Creggan had never seen her at the front of her cage before . |
| 11 | She insisted that she had never seen it at the design stage . |