Example sentences of "[vb past] [pers pn] at [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Superior forces led by the Earl of Morton met them at Carberry Hill near the earlier battlefield of Pinkie . |
| 3 | We met them at Carberry Hill . |
| 4 | Boycs asked me at Headingley if I had a big car . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | She was at court every time with me , and she came and visited me at Holloway . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Your welcome letter found me at Launceston at which place I remained two days with Mr. Kerr , Captn Friend etc . |
| 11 | All was fine , until the Customs man stopped me at Heathrow Airport . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Carolyn Bartholomew who visited her at Kensington Palace three days after William was born recalls : ‘ She was thrilled with both herself and the baby . |
| 14 | THE PRINCESS of Wales met one of her heroines when Mother Teresa of Calcutta visited her at Kensington Palace . |
| 15 | 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 ’ . |
| 16 | When he found her at Leominster , Hereford and Worcester , he spent Pounds 68,000 on the house next door . |
| 17 | ‘ 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 . |
| 18 | The squire who was sent south to carry the good news to King Henry overtook him at Daventry on the 20th of September . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Young described it at Warrington , Gloucester and Bristol . |
| 21 | 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 … |
| 22 | Even York City beat 'em at Wembley fer chrissakes . |
| 23 | ‘ Actually , I found it at Royston . |
| 24 | ‘ Leeds were on top of their game when they thrashed us at Hillsborough in January , ’ said defender Nigel Worthington . |
| 25 | I never went there to stay , but I was always glad when he visited us at Canonmills . |
| 26 | Morning found us at Gullfoss hastily trying to organize sleeping and eating . |
| 27 | He told me at Westgate . |
| 28 | Henry II received them at Winchester on 21 September , but postponed consideration of their case until he himself should come to Normandy . |
| 29 | ‘ He was killed by assassins just like the bastards nearly murdered me at Le Coq d'Or ! ’ |
| 30 | Sue and I go to this cafe , I told you at Newtown did n't I ? |