Example sentences of "[vb past] [pron] at [noun] " 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 | 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 | 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 |
| 7 | Boycs asked me at Headingley if I had a big car . |
| 8 | Sir Stafford Cripps in 1950 pegged them at £410 million . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 |
| 12 | Makes it pretty it improves it 's just a mou , you know mouse mat you got them at school . |
| 13 | We made ourselves at home , ate the simple food sent across to us from the refectory and retired to bed . |
| 14 | Two had left so I visited them at home . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | She was at court every time with me , and she came and visited me at Holloway . |
| 17 | A DISTRAUGHT mum last night begged her ‘ danger man ’ husband to free their two young children after he snatched them at gunpoint . |
| 18 | A DISTRAUGHT mum last night begged her danger man husband to return their two young children after he snatched them at gunpoint . |
| 19 | Well he beat me at dinner at erm |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | Your welcome letter found me at Launceston at which place I remained two days with Mr. Kerr , Captn Friend etc . |
| 22 | ‘ Sarah , his sister , phoned me at home on Sunday morning . |
| 23 | ‘ They phoned me at home on a Friday evening and that night I went out to celebrate , ’ she said . |
| 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 | Alexander found himself at odds with these famous words of Shakespeare : |
| 27 | The facts of political geography are alone sufficient to suggest that there might be many occasions when the Duke of Aquitaine found himself at odds with the Taillefers and the Lusignans . |
| 28 | But Briggs found himself at odds with colleagues within the NASA scientific establishment . |
| 29 | One day he found himself at Market Harborough but with no idea where he was going . |
| 30 | By instinct rather than design he found himself at Saint Winifred 's altar , and kneeled to approach her , his creaky knees settling gingerly on the lowest step of her elevated place . |