Example sentences of "[verb] [pers pn] at [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'd been hoping my daughter would be brought to see me at Holloway and was frightened of her turning up and finding me not there . |
| 2 | Then you 'll be phoning me at Birmingham instead ! |
| 3 | The future of Lothar and his supporters was settled when Louis met them at Blois in September : The emperor sat in his pavilion which was set up in the middle of a wide field on a hill where the whole army could see him , and his faithful sons [ Pippin and Louis ] stood beside him . |
| 4 | Superior forces led by the Earl of Morton met them at Carberry Hill near the earlier battlefield of Pinkie . |
| 5 | We met them at Carberry Hill . |
| 6 | Boycs asked me at Headingley if I had a big car . |
| 7 | Several rioters were killed during an attack on a mill using them at Salford in 1812 , but few manufacturers had as yet introduced them , or were intending to in the near future , and disturbances were intermingled with food riots and political agitation . |
| 8 | To this question , the common answer is that he neither quoted the forged additions nor produced them at Rome , because he knew they were forgeries , and knew also that the forgery would be detected at once by a competent critic . |
| 9 | The Athenians came out and fought them at Tanagra ( 457 ) ; the Spartans first won but then Athens retrieved this defeat under Myronides at Oinophyta two months later . |
| 10 | They rode almost due south , by the Morthwaite foothills and the Eddleston Water to Peebles , then westwards up Tweed to that river 's great bend southwards at Broughton , and so on towards its source on Tweedsmuir , darkness halting them at Oliver , where they learned that its lord , Sir Simon Fraser , had already departed likewise for Lochmaben , in strength . |
| 11 | ‘ I did n't go to Oxford or Yale but he would have a good education if he had joined me at Birkenhead Institute . ’ |
| 12 | My father used to go and buy them at Lowestoft . |
| 13 | I got a sun-'n'-sex postcard from Heraklion , worked out which day they 'd be returning , telephoned all possible airlines and went to meet them at Gatwick . |
| 14 | I had arranged to meet them at Salima 's house , but when I got there she told me that the other two were at Ruksana 's place . |
| 15 | A3 v Framwellgate Moor & Pity Me at Edinburgh Park ; |
| 16 | Draft a letter to my council , Nicholas , notifying them that I have already had the news of the action at Pilleth , and asking them to send out orders for the knights and squires of all the midland counties to meet me at Lichfield , fully prepared , mounted and arrayed for war , by the seventh day of July . |
| 17 | Duncan took some persuading — £250 and the scrap option on the VW to be exact — but agreed to meet me at Blackberry Hill with his wrecker truck ( there is n't a vehicle known to man he ca n't get hold of ) in two hours . |
| 18 | Henry Tudor found that there was still considerable opposition to him becoming King , particularly from ‘ Yorkshire ’ pretenders , who included Margaret of Burgundy , for whom an Oxford tradesman called Simnel , crossed into England from Ireland , in the summer of 1487 , with a force of two thousand German mercenaries , but Henry — who had become King Henry VII , in September 1485 — raised a larger army and defeated them at Newark . |
| 19 | She was at court every time with me , and she came and visited me at Holloway . |
| 20 | ‘ We 'll almost certainly need them at Punta Arenas . |
| 21 | About Feargal coming to find me at Rosslare ? |
| 22 | He found them at Neath Abbey , and the king was taken to Renilworth Castle while Isabella and Mortimer proceeded to wreak their vengeance on his supporters . |
| 23 | Your welcome letter found me at Launceston at which place I remained two days with Mr. Kerr , Captn Friend etc . |
| 24 | All was fine , until the Customs man stopped me at Heathrow Airport . |
| 25 | He 's talking about the time I approached them at Leeds Poly and asked them why their logo featured women 's breasts rather than the species-ist cow 's udders I made them change it to . |
| 26 | Jeannie — ’ They kissed again and then he was gone , running after the uplanders to catch them at Camserney mill . |
| 27 | On the plus side , I did n't think they 'd jump me at Stuart Street as long as Doogie was there . |
| 28 | ‘ Well , at least you 'll have someone to meet you at Euston , ’ Rose said softly to Maggie who already knew that she would be met . |
| 29 | We do need someone like him , but fuck England — I want him at Leeds . |
| 30 | It may be significant that Rose was working for Henry Compton [ q.v. ] , bishop of London , in 1675 , for it was Compton who , in the words of Stephen Switzer [ q.v. ] , was London 's ‘ great Encourager ’ , employing him at Fulham Palace . |