Example sentences of "[prep] [pers pn] at the [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It did n't really sink in what I had done until I returned to school on the Monday morning and saw all the television cameras waiting for me at the gates , ’ says Dozzell . |
| 2 | Obviously she is very upset being left alone in a strange country and we are looking after her at the police station . |
| 3 | The Immense parasites twining round the trees taking root some of them at the tops of the trees and hanging down to the ground , others surrounding the trees like a crown — heard the bell bird with his incessant ting ting , the coachwhip bird & c. — a heavy shower of rain accompanied by lightning — soon cleared up — every green thing looked more beautiful for its sprinkling . ’ |
| 4 | The cars that are always ahead of you at the lights . |
| 5 | He swallowed and , keeping his head low , looked past her at the girls . |
| 6 | Wild horses would scarcely drag this plan out of him at the hearings , even though all he had been shown was a wall map of Central America : nothing classified , no black programmes , no code words . |
| 7 | However , when I think of him at the Departments of the Environment and of Education and Science , I realise that it probably was his finest hour . |
| 8 | A young Paul Gascoigne has a torrid time of it at the hands of the opposition in a league football match back in 1989 . |
| 9 | If the Press were to arrive you 'd find both of us at the gates with shot-guns . |
| 10 | We felt so sorry for you at the shareholders ' meeting . |
| 11 | Better than some , in fact , since he had once had West Riding connections and , as young political agitators went , possessed a relatively unblemished reputation , with not so much as a single term of imprisonment , as yet , to be used against him at the hustings . |
| 12 | He looked by the way from the most of them , playing up with them at the games and did the up there . |
| 13 | Instead of asking Robert to spend more time with her at the weekends , she blamed him for being absent when something quite minor happened to one of the children . |
| 14 | ‘ I mean , ’ Magrit said apologetically , ‘ that we caught up with her at the ice-cliffs just beyond the perimeter . |
| 15 | His secrecy about his unhappiness made everything about daily life seem a little counterfeit , apart from meals with Sam and sprees with him at the pictures . |
| 16 | When he finally arrived in Calcutta he was not of course allowed to stay with us at the Sisters , which puzzled you children , but he stayed with the Oxford Mission Fathers and came over every day to see us , until a kindly businessman heard about us and took us along to his palatial house until we could decide what next to do . |
| 17 | Looking round her at the cushions , Ellie spotted one with a Regency man and woman on it . |
| 18 | Li Shai Tung let the remote drift slowly towards the starship and sat back , one hand smoothing through his long beard while he looked about him at the faces of his fellow T'ang . |
| 19 | Looking about him at the others , Christian said , ‘ There ! |
| 20 | Chen took a deep breath then looked about him at the banks of monitors that filled every wall of the huge , hexagonal room , impressed despite himself . |
| 21 | All this , ’ he looked about him at the books and paintings and machines , ‘ it speaks of a love of knowledge . ’ |
| 22 | I waited and waited for him at the points and eventually met him about three or four o'clock in the morning for the first time . |
| 23 | She turned , looking about her at the stables . |
| 24 | And that came out as a as a as a certainly many people mentioned that to me at the exhibitions that I attended . |
| 25 | I 'd always imagined that one day I 'd be able to turn to the guy beside me at the Giants Stadium and say ‘ That 's my kid playing down there ’ . |
| 26 | Our experts will be waiting to speak to you at the venues on the days shown above . |
| 27 | When Pc Black had found him in the toilets he said he had temporarily removed his glasses to wipe them , and that a friend who was there had brought them to him at the police station . |
| 28 | Slowly , he put down the silver pen he had been toying with and stood up , walking to her at the windows . |
| 29 | He proposed to her at the offices of Faber and Faber ; after she had accepted , he explained that he would have asked her much sooner if he had known her real feelings towards him , but she had been so formal with him that he was not even sure if she liked him — which , after eight years , suggests an odd insecurity or impercipience . |
| 30 | Poindexter discoursed on it at the hearings , tamping his pipe , with the aid of the sort of brightly-coloured maps usually found in school atlases . |