Example sentences of "[verb] [pers pn] at [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 31 | I would have given much to meet him at Elsfield during one of his fleeting visits : indeed there was no one I would have been more interested to meet . |
| 32 | Well , so I 'm going to meet him at Temple Meads and we 're going to set off to the Marquis family abode . |
| 33 | His complacency remained unshaken when , on Thursday 17 January 1746 , having advanced from Edinburgh towards Stirling he found that the rebels , far from fleeing , had moved forward to meet him at Falkirk , a small town about ten miles [ 16 km ] to the south-east . |
| 34 | Boulton happened to meet him at Exeter however , and as it did not coincide with the ideas of the firm to lose the services of their best engineer in this fashion , Murdock was persuaded to return . |
| 35 | ‘ Yes — I was to meet him at Glasgow and I was late . |
| 36 | In June 1860 he invited William , the Prince Regent of Prussia , to meet him at Baden , whose Grand Duke agreed to act as host . |
| 37 | Pointy-Beard simply said that Sunil wanted to see me when he 'd finished eating and we were going to meet him at Shazam 's and did I know it . |
| 38 | Carolyn Bartholomew who visited her at Kensington Palace three days after William was born recalls : ‘ She was thrilled with both herself and the baby . |
| 39 | THE PRINCESS of Wales met one of her heroines when Mother Teresa of Calcutta visited her at Kensington Palace . |
| 40 | When the traveller Mary Kingsley [ q.v. ] visited her at Ekenge in 1895 , she found Miss Slessor ‘ has lost most of her missionary ideas and bullies the native chiefs in their own tongue … and is regarded by the other missionaries as mad and dangerous ’ . |
| 41 | ‘ You never went to find her at Rosslare ? |
| 42 | ‘ It happens , Araminta , that Miss Kyte was in the act of answering the summons , ’ her cousin lied calmly , ‘ for I had myself come to find her at Aunt Lavvy 's request . ’ |
| 43 | I 'm not naive , I know others will make more be back with more bids because he 's such a top -class goal scorer , ’ says the manager , who has just signed a contract keeping him at Hillsborough for the same time as Hirst . |
| 44 | When he found her at Leominster , Hereford and Worcester , he spent Pounds 68,000 on the house next door . |
| 45 | ‘ I further said to [ the defendant ] ‘ You set men to watch her , you trail her and found her at Gloria Chin 's house and there you threatened to kill her with your gun , but she escaped you . |
| 46 | Atherton , back in the side for his first Test of the tour , battled through 41 overs to show England 's management why they should have picked him at Madras , while Blakey — brought in because Neil Fairbrother was still ill with a virus — has now made only seven runs from three Test innings and looks out of his depth . |
| 47 | Especially now that his grandfather is no longer as robust as he once was , and needs him at Arrancay . ’ |
| 48 | The squire who was sent south to carry the good news to King Henry overtook him at Daventry on the 20th of September . |
| 49 | There were signs that Waterloo Boy was past his best for the season and those were emphasised when Katabatic easily beat him at Cheltenham in April . |
| 50 | Baldwin then went to meet her at Victoria Station and walked the half mile to their Eaton Square house with her , describing , as she subsequently wrote to her husband 's mother , what had happened , in slightly breathless terms : |
| 51 | Breeze and Gay went to meet her at Clyst St George station , and hardly recognized the ultra-smart figure which languidly emerged from the train , as the boon companion of not so long ago . |
| 52 | Young described it at Warrington , Gloucester and Bristol . |
| 53 | Two hundred thousand folk caught it at Silverstone yesterday … it 's being spread on radio and television even comes through the letterbox with the morning papers … |
| 54 | Even York City beat 'em at Wembley fer chrissakes . |
| 55 | ‘ Actually , I found it at Royston . |
| 56 | One of the reasons for this preference may be that I first came to know it at Windrush . |
| 57 | ‘ Leeds were on top of their game when they thrashed us at Hillsborough in January , ’ said defender Nigel Worthington . |
| 58 | I never went there to stay , but I was always glad when he visited us at Canonmills . |
| 59 | Morning found us at Gullfoss hastily trying to organize sleeping and eating . |
| 60 | Omar had arranged for Beyyene , a negadi or muleteer , to meet us at Mojjo Station , sixty miles down the line , with his men and twenty pack mules , and we sent Kassimi , Goutama and Makonnen ahead with our own animals to join him there . |