Example sentences of "[vb past] [pers pn] at a " in BNC.
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| 1 | I first met them at a trial . |
| 2 | He led them at a smart pace along the path where the railway had been and though they grumbled about the branches scratching their legs his sister and his brothers followed him . |
| 3 | The rest clambered into their saddles , and followed him unquestioningly as he led them at a canter downslope to where the hills opened out and patches of ground could be seen where the snow was melting . |
| 4 | My results were received with general disbelief when I announced them at a conference near Oxford . |
| 5 | One of the lads asked me at a dance how I had earned my living before I had got married . |
| 6 | Hawkins , a Devon merchant , had seen that the demand for slaves from Africa was increasing in South America , and in 1562 he sailed — in the way many Englishmen were to do in the seventeenth and eighteenth century — to West Africa , bought slaves , took them to the Caribbean ports , and sold them at a profit . |
| 7 | And he h He sold them at a profit of thirty three and a third percent which is a third . |
| 8 | I got them at a craft fair at farm . |
| 9 | I think he caught me at a vulnerable moment , when I was more worried about myself than I am now . |
| 10 | ‘ I 'm so sorry , Veronica , you caught me at a bad moment , ’ Loretta said apologetically . |
| 11 | Mind you can always say to you caught me at a bad time , you say , it 's supposed to have appointment only , but just say , can you , is there any chance of you coming back . |
| 12 | I think you just caught him at a bad moment . |
| 13 | ‘ I know you and Niall did n't exactly get off to a good start , but if it 's any consolation you caught him at a bad time . |
| 14 | He looked up from the desk , caught her at a moment when , against her will , tears had filled her eyes . |
| 15 | They approached him at a steady pace as though unconcerned by his presence , but they went in single file , Allen with his hand lying lightly on the knife at his belt and Marian carrying her bow , strung , and with an arrow ready notched , lightly and inconspicuously in her left hand . |
| 16 | There was a small gap in the fence that was unaffected by the pile-up and we approached it at a forty-five degree angle . |
| 17 | The Labour administration approved the scheme wholeheartedly in 1986 , and used it at a public inquiry to try to oppose the imposition of more A-road architecture on the site approved by the previous Tory administration . |
| 18 | ‘ No , his analyst told me at a party in New York . ’ |
| 19 | I told him at a funeral this afternoon that I was pulling him out of Saturday 's game . |
| 20 | ‘ David played it at a soundcheck and when I asked him if it was about Shaun he just smiled and then denied it . |
| 21 | Or scanned you at a maiden aunt 's , |
| 22 | Glasses , a beard and lots of grey hairs — 47-year-old Rod Stewart 's new look seems to have stunned his model wife Rachel Hunter who joined him at a Los Angeles club . |
| 23 | ‘ Is all well ? ’ he asked when she joined him at a small table in a corner of the crowded bar . |
| 24 | She adjusted it at a still more ludicrous angle in the mirror . |
| 25 | I mean , alright , we know you 're handling large lumps of money , but when you think of it , if you , if you , borrowed it at a different rate , you know , same rate as you could do finance , 'cos which I think the government could do it and make a profit at it . |
| 26 | Instead of bowling the ball , which bore a small silver shield , Mr Cottle threw it at a low-flying swan . |
| 27 | At first I thought he was using it to wave at people , but then he bundled it up and threw it at a police car . |
| 28 | Duke reckoned it at a mile and three-quarters ; the most conservative estimates put it at over a mile . |
| 29 | Gaily followed them at a discreet distance and watched as they lowered Miss Faith Lavender into her last resting place . |
| 30 | Tero followed them at a distance , watching her new friend with sorrowful anxious eyes . |