Example sentences of "[noun prp] [vb past] [pers pn] at " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mona and Sheila met her at Dublin Airport and the three sisters drove to Great Meadow in Mona 's car . |
| 2 | William met him at university . ’ |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Mr Trelawney met us at the cave . |
| 5 | Ken met me at the entrance and guided me into a side room . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | ‘ David played it at a soundcheck and when I asked him if it was about Shaun he just smiled and then denied it . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Scott heard it at last and looked around , fumbling for the taps , trying to turn off the shower . |
| 10 | When we moved from Freiberg , Rebecca followed us at a distance . |
| 11 | A.A. rang me at 4 o/c she returned on 2nd and had had grand time with Gwenda and families . |
| 12 | Now er Richard rang me at five o'clock yesterday . |
| 13 | Linda loved it at Saville Garden last weekend , weekend before . . |
| 14 | Josie waved toward the refrigerator and Lucy took her at her word , beginning with a plate of leftover ham . |
| 15 | Branson bought them at an auction which inflated the group 's price far beyond its true value . |
| 16 | Current predictions for the cost of generating electricity with the Super-Phenix put it at about the same as coal but twice as expensive as a conventional reactor . |
| 17 | Headmistress Shirley Cunningham greeted us at the school gates with her own highly appropriate joke . |
| 18 | Headmistress Shirley Cunningham greeted us at the school gates with her own highly appropriate joke . |
| 19 | But dear oh dear , headmistress Shirley Cunningham greeted us at the school gates with the world 's oldest joke . |
| 20 | Tom grinned an enormous grin across the table and said , ‘ You 're cheating , because a ) what are your natural circumstances if it 's not the very existence of coal , b ) I do n't believe Engels said it at all and , c ) even if he did , that does n't make it true because he was working with an outmoded scientific model . |
| 21 | Theories of personal development , or of the historical and sociological development of humanity , which ignore it or dispense with it , make psychoanalytic theory less advanced than it was when Freud left it at the end of his life . |
| 22 | Marie had him at her mercy . |
| 23 | Corbett left them at The Bull , its narrow windows draped with black crepe in mourning for the landlord whose coffin now stood outside the main door , perched rather crazily on its wooden trestles . |
| 24 | Hari recognized him at once , he was the friend of Edward Morris , she had seen him earlier sitting before the fire in the comfortable house on Chapel Street . |
| 25 | ‘ He 's spending a few days with Maria Luisa in Valencia on the mainland , ’ Fernando told her at last . |
| 26 | Lillee met him at the gate and escorted him to the middle . |
| 27 | The next tunnel forked , turned left , turned right again , and other tunnels led off from it ; and Fand led them at an even pace along a course that seemed to have no sense . |
| 28 | Jane met him at the front door . |
| 29 | Sheffield went ahead after 30 minutes when Gage knocked the ball past Allen as he burst into the goalmouth and , though Walker parried both his shot and Deane 's follow-up , Deane beat him at the third attempt . |
| 30 | Immediately , he began trying to predict Simon 's responses , to work out ways of soothing him , of flattering him , of making him laugh , anything that might defuse that aggression or at least make sure that Simon directed it at someone else . |