Example sentences of "[vb past] [pers pn] at the " in BNC.
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| 31 | They followed Fiver up the run and overtook him at the entrance . |
| 32 | He seems to have been retiring to his ships again when Edmund overtook him at the hill called Assandun ( probably Ashdon in north-west or Ashingdon in south-east Essex ) . |
| 33 | But except for a brief interval , Blaize ruled for 10 unmemorable years until Gairy decisively beat him at the polls a few months after Britain granted the island wide autonomy in 1967 . |
| 34 | 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 . |
| 35 | ‘ I just missed everything , ’ moaned Ivanisevic , who crashed 6-3 , 7-6 , 7-6 to a clay court specialist who also beat him at the French Open this year . |
| 36 | ‘ I just missed everything , ’ moaned Ivanisevic , who crashed 6-3 , 7-6 , 7-6 to a clay court specialist who also beat him at the French Open this year . |
| 37 | ‘ And , lady — ’ His voice stopped her at the door . |
| 38 | Rebels stopped him at the airport but his whereabouts were not known last night . |
| 39 | Out in the dark cold hall she stopped him at the foot of the stairs . |
| 40 | Christina approached him at the reception desk where he stood . |
| 41 | ‘ She caught it at the public baths , ’ said his mum , with another one of her sniggers . |
| 42 | She had drawn her fair hair high into an elaborate plait down the back of her head and fastened it at the bottom with a wide tortoiseshell clasp : it looked distinguished and competent , but nowhere near cuddly . |
| 43 | Like someone in a trance , she gazed at the clasp that fastened it at the throat . |
| 44 | The man came back from the bank in a van and the other men stopped it at the gate and grabbed the money . ’ |
| 45 | I needed to come up with a solution which avoided this overly defined focal point and used it at the same time . |
| 46 | Whether you choose a chateau hotel or stay in stately homes where families take in guests , splendour is the word and we found it at the majestic Chateau de Noirieux in Briollay , Anjou . |
| 47 | and then er they they found it at the polic , the police station |
| 48 | She was about to shake her head , but changed it at the last moment to a nod . |
| 49 | One this girl traced my hand and I traced hers at the same time — I went very slowly , which triggered her ticklishness , and she laughed every time my pencil made it to the place between two of her fingers , but she was brave , she stayed put . |
| 50 | She' took sandwiches and ate them at the school . |
| 51 | So I went on into the town , and told them at the castle , and the lord Beringar has set a guard on the place now until daylight . |
| 52 | Erm , thought it would be nice at handicrafts afternoon and then we could throw the handicraft meeting open to anybody if I told them at the meeting before were going to have it . |
| 53 | Well I mean , I told them at the time I was against the of a sixteen month deal . |
| 54 | They were last seen by a taxi driver who dropped them at the railway station more than 24 hours earlier . |
| 55 | The coach dropped me at the Lofleiđ3ir , a palatial hotel . |
| 56 | They dropped me at The Pightle door . |
| 57 | The tide had n't covered the pebbles yet , so I took up a handful and lobbed them at the bottle . |
| 58 | Sitting in Casey 's office with a group of people sometime in the autumn of 1985 , John McMahon , his deputy , suddenly said : ‘ You wo n't believe what Bud McFarlane just told me at the White House . ’ |
| 59 | ‘ She was dynamic , had tremendous energy and was thoroughly decisive , ’ Bramall told me at the launch of a book , The Chiefs , which he has written with Gen Sir William Jackson . |
| 60 | It 's difficult to explain , but a part of me never really believed I should see her again , even after what they told me at the theatre . |