Example sentences of "[noun] [vb past] [pers pn] at " in BNC.
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| 1 | His proud mum met him at Shannon Airport with the news that he has been called up by the Lions as a replacement for winger Ian Hunter . |
| 2 | Mona and Sheila met her at Dublin Airport and the three sisters drove to Great Meadow in Mona 's car . |
| 3 | William met him at university . ’ |
| 4 | It was in the boot-and-brushing room that Nicandra found her at last — after a search through the larders , the dairy , and the empty laundry , its warm steam now subsided into a vaporous chill . |
| 5 | We thought all was well until the Battlebus passed us at full speed in the opposite direction . |
| 6 | Mr Trelawney met us at the cave . |
| 7 | Ken met me at the entrance and guided me into a side room . |
| 8 | One of the lads asked me at a dance how I had earned my living before I had got married . |
| 9 | Boycs asked me at Headingley if I had a big car . |
| 10 | Words failed me at this last find … but not so my companions ! |
| 11 | The technology was introduced in the US in the 1970s , replacing toxic SO2 , and Norway 's Norsk Hydro installed it at is Porsgrunn magnesium plant in 1978 . |
| 12 | ‘ David played it at a soundcheck and when I asked him if it was about Shaun he just smiled and then denied it . |
| 13 | Despite a turnover of plants in the 1960s and early 1970s , employment was maintained until the mid-1970s when a CDP study estimated it at about 4800 of whom 50% were women . |
| 14 | The examination papers written in Victoria 's large , even script were considered adequate ; her interview was unexceptional , although the examiners at Girton College recognised her at once as she had been universally described by all who knew her : an extremely pleasant girl of excellent character . |
| 15 | The wind woke her at six , hustling the leaves on the trees , still green in November . |
| 16 | That was why Simon Draper was appalled , horrified and dumbstruck when Richard Branson telephoned him at home one Sunday evening in March 1984 , gushing enthusiasm for another idea . |
| 17 | In a nearby village girls of the Mission to the Blind had been settled before the final evacuation ; they continued with their weaving , and a recent army photograph showed them at work at their looms , surrounded by admiring soldiers and villagers . |
| 18 | Another couple of lads joined me at Middlesbrough station and off we went to be gentlemen 's gentlemen . |
| 19 | It is recorded somewhat ruefully that , after years of struggle , when the Veterinarian had won its fight to get the course lengthened , students who had previously been apprenticed for three or four years to a practitioner claimed they at least ought to be able to leave the College after 12 months , and not have to stay the same period — two years — as the non-apprenticed . |
| 20 | Not that the organs of perception apprehended it at the time . |
| 21 | His words surprised her at first , then anger took over — an anger so intense that she was prepared to walk out of her marriage and do irreparable damage to the Royal Family . |
| 22 | Scott heard it at last and looked around , fumbling for the taps , trying to turn off the shower . |
| 23 | When we moved from Freiberg , Rebecca followed us at a distance . |
| 24 | A.A. rang me at 4 o/c she returned on 2nd and had had grand time with Gwenda and families . |
| 25 | Now er Richard rang me at five o'clock yesterday . |
| 26 | Linda loved it at Saville Garden last weekend , weekend before . . |
| 27 | ‘ HA HA HA HA HA HA , ’ the little girl went in the next picture-square , and ‘ BONK read the bubble as the typewriter hit her at the end of the joke . |
| 28 | Josie waved toward the refrigerator and Lucy took her at her word , beginning with a plate of leftover ham . |
| 29 | We acted , sang , danced — hoping always for temperate weather , dreading the sudden heat waves which lost us audiences as surely as rain and snow kept them at home — burlesques with preposterous titles ( Very Little Hamlet , The Vicar of Wideawakefield ) , comedies , farces . |
| 30 | The Michaelmas term saw me at my most hostile . |