Example sentences of "[vb past] [pron] at [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A COUPLE told yesterday of their terror when two escaped convicts kidnapped them at gunpoint . |
| 2 | Robin Gurdon , who met them at army headquarters , was to guide the party through the southernmost part of the British lines as they hoped that by skirting the edge of the depression , they would avoid any main concentrations of German troops . |
| 3 | Cos I remember once when they asked me at work to deliver the annual speech you know the man that asked me he says er , you know , they 've gone round everybody else and nobody else would do it and would I do it , and I said good lord , that were my first reaction , and I realized like all the company secretaries lo lord , so I did very well there |
| 4 | Nigel started a kind of evening shift , that you was there with your kids during the day and then your husband got them at night and you come out and worked at nights , so it |
| 5 | Makes it pretty it improves it 's just a mou , you know mouse mat you got them at school . |
| 6 | We made ourselves at home , ate the simple food sent across to us from the refectory and retired to bed . |
| 7 | Two had left so I visited them at home . |
| 8 | A DISTRAUGHT mum last night begged her ‘ danger man ’ husband to free their two young children after he snatched them at gunpoint . |
| 9 | A DISTRAUGHT mum last night begged her danger man husband to return their two young children after he snatched them at gunpoint . |
| 10 | Well he beat me at dinner at erm |
| 11 | ‘ Sarah , his sister , phoned me at home on Sunday morning . |
| 12 | ‘ They phoned me at home on a Friday evening and that night I went out to celebrate , ’ she said . |
| 13 | For reasons beyond his control , the new tsar found himself at war with Persia just as he was coming to terms with the Turks . |
| 14 | With the assassination of the Archduke Ferdinand by a Serbian nationalist in Bosnia , Germany found itself at war with its trade competitors in the west , and at war with its nationalist rivals and its potential empire in the east . |
| 15 | Frederick 's aggression disturbed George II 's position as Elector of Hanover and , because he tried to defend Maria Theresa 's treaty rights and France joined in the attack upon her , Britain found itself at war with France . |
| 16 | ‘ I tried you at home earlier — has n't anyone mended your cable yet ? ’ |
| 17 | Eddie McAteer made a public call for the march to be postponed , but Fred Heatley , John McAnerney and Betty Sinclair visited him at home to persuade him not to pull out . |
| 18 | For the last two years or so of Phillip 's life , Marje never visited him at home , according to friends . |
| 19 | I caught him at work one day , myself |
| 20 | I climbed the steps up onto the lock and knocked on the door of the lock-keeper 's house , and through great good fortune found him at home . |
| 21 | ‘ I found him at Church I : nd . |
| 22 | Er I phoned her at work at the tribunal . |
| 23 | She had n't known until Sir Philip mentioned it at dinner last night that I 'd been thinking about marrying her . |
| 24 | Tinted glass filtered the bright morning sunlight and powered swivel shutters excluded it at will . |
| 25 | Well as I 've taped that I taped it at home |
| 26 | FIREMEN called to a chimney blaze found themselves at boss Jeffrey Ord 's home at Alnwick , Northumberland . |
| 27 | Cos the mortgages and that but there 's a lot of them , and kids causing it , and Christmas was coming well you know we just , that 's when they helped us at Christmas was really fantastic yes , true I never thought anything really out of this world how the how the people helped We got toys and everything for the kids ' Christmas , everything you could think of . |
| 28 | The weather and the course were at their most benign as Fulton Allem , of South Africa , made himself at home on his first appearance at Augusta . |
| 29 | Durkin quickly made himself at home in Carewscourt . |
| 30 | ‘ He made himself at home . |